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AI for Science: How to Shorten R&D From Years to Days

At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, leading Chinese scientific institutions showed how AI compresses research cycles from years to days without replacing scientists

How Amazon weaned Alexa off Anthropic's pricey models to slash AI costs

Internal documents show Amazon worked to lower Alexa+ AI costs by reducing the use of Anthropic models and getting more work from every GPU.

The quest to kill Gmail finds a new AI challenger

Scape's email app draws on its memory and transcripts to suggest replies. A Y Combinator partner believes it could finally pry people away from Gmail.

OpenAI is trying to conquer the office. Legal is next.

For years, OpenAI let startups like Harvey build legal software on top of its AI. Now, the company is making moves to court lawyers directly.

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach exposes AI's next safety challenge

Frontier AI models are getting scary good at breaking rules in ways their creators didn't anticipate.

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

Trump’s ‘Genesis Mission’ is supposed to solve AI’s issues with more AI.

The goal is to speed scientific breakthroughs on key priorities including meeting soaring energy demand that’s raising electricity costs for Americans.

Workflows in Grok Build

Grok Build can now write and run workflows: orchestration scripts that fan a task out across hundreds of parallel agents, verify the results, and report back in one background run.

SOTA Search Over Academic Publications

State of the art search over research papers and technical publications, backed by a dedicated index of ~350 million publications.

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

By making every layer more efficient, OpenAI is delivering stronger performance per dollar across more enterprise workloads.

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn't killing the mainframe

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

Even Google couldn't out-earn its AI spending this quarter

Google reports negative cash flow due to AI spending, raising capex forecast as infrastructure costs rise.