Michael Nuñez

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, a milestone that underscores the company’s growing reach across both consumer and enterprise markets, according to an X post from chief operating officer Brad Lightcap on Thursday. The rapid expansion comes as OpenAI faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Elon Musk’s xAI and China’s DeepSeek, both

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Elon Musk just released an AI that’s smarter than ChatGPT — here’s why that matters

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has unveiled Grok 3, its latest AI model that the company claims outperforms leading competitors across key technical benchmarks. The announcement marks a significant escalation in the race to develop more powerful AI systems. The launch comes just days after Musk’s failed $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, the company

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Replit and Anthropic’s AI just helped Zillow build production software—without a single engineer

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Replit has transformed non-technical employees at Zillow into software developers. The real estate giant now routes over 100,000 home shoppers to agents using applications built by team members who had never written code before. This breakthrough stems from Replit’s new partnership with Anthropic and Google Cloud, which has enabled over 100,000 applications on Google Cloud Run.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI will match ‘country of geniuses’ by 2026

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Artificial intelligence will match the collective intelligence of “a country of geniuses” within two years, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned today in a sharp critique of this week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. His timeline — targeting 2026 or 2027 — marks one of the most specific predictions yet from a major AI leader about the

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Cerebras-Perplexity deal targets $100B search market with ultra-fast AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Cerebras Systems and Perplexity AI are joining forces to challenge the dominance of conventional search engines, announcing a partnership that promises to deliver near-instantaneous AI-powered search results at speeds previously thought impossible. The collaboration, announced in an exclusive VentureBeat report, centers on Perplexity’s new Sonar model, which runs on Cerebras’s specialized AI chips at 1,200 tokens

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Who’s using AI the most? The Anthropic Economic Index breaks down the data

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI is reshaping the modern workplace, but until now, its impact on individual tasks and occupations has been difficult to quantify. A new report from Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, offers a data-driven view of how businesses and professionals are integrating AI into their work. The Anthropic Economic Index, released today, provides a detailed analysis

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Apple’s ELEGNT framework could make home robots feel less like machines and more like companions

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Apple researchers have developed a new framework for making non-humanoid robots move more naturally and expressively during interactions with people, potentially paving the way for more engaging robotic assistants in homes and workplaces. The research, published this month on arXiv, introduces Expressive and Functional Movement Design ELEGNT, which allows robots to convey intentions, emotions and attitudes

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