State of AI

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DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones
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DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones

DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.

March 20, 20262 min read
AI Data Centers Go Off the Grid: Rather than rely on public utilities, AI companies build their own power plants
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AI Data Centers Go Off the Grid: Rather than rely on public utilities, AI companies build their own power plants

Meta and OpenAI are among the tech companies that are building private power plants that will operate independently of regional grids to supply electricity for their massive buildout of AI data centers.

March 16, 20263 min read
Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives
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Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives

Leading AI companies fought a ferocious war for talent, luring top talent from competitors with levels of compensation more commonly associated with pro sports.

December 26, 20252 min read
The Year AI Went Industrial: The State of AI Report 2025 says AI’s barriers aren’t technological but social and material
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The Year AI Went Industrial: The State of AI Report 2025 says AI’s barriers aren’t technological but social and material

A year-in-review report heralds the dawn of AI’s industrial era.

November 12, 20253 min read
OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners
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OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners

OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.

November 5, 20253 min read
The AI Boom Is Bound to Bust: What if big investments in AI models, data centers, and hot startups don't pay off?
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The AI Boom Is Bound to Bust: What if big investments in AI models, data centers, and hot startups don't pay off?

Leading AI companies are spending mountains of cash in hopes that the technology will deliver outsize profits before investors lose patience. Are exuberant bets on big returns grounded in the quicksand of wishful thinking?

October 29, 20253 min read
Google Must Share Data With AI Rivals: Google must share its search index, but can keep Chrome and Android
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Google Must Share Data With AI Rivals: Google must share its search index, but can keep Chrome and Android

AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.

September 10, 20252 min read
OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project
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OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project

OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.

August 20, 20252 min read
White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation
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White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation

President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.

July 30, 20253 min read
Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid
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Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid

A $3 billion bid by OpenAI to acquire Windsurf, maker of the AI-assisted integrated development environment of the same name, collapsed at the 11th hour, setting off a tumultuous few days of corporate maneuvering.

July 23, 20252 min read
Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang
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Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.

June 25, 20252 min read
AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom
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AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.

June 11, 20253 min read
Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test
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Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.

June 11, 20252 min read
AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom
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AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.

June 4, 20253 min read
Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages
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Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages

Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.

April 2, 20252 min read

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