Allan Brooks never set out to reinvent mathematics. But after weeks spent talking with ChatGPT, the 47-year-old Canadian came to believe he had discovered a new form of math powerful enough to take down the internet.
Brooks – who had no history of mental illness or mathematical genius – spent 21 days in May spiraling deeper into the chatbot’s reassurances, a descent later…
AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new “background…
On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released its first AI Spending Report in partnership with the fintech firm Mercury. Using transaction data from Mercury, the report analyzes the top 50 AI-native application layer companies that startups are spending money on, similar to the…
Just a day after Amazon introduced its new AI-powered Echo devices, Google debuted its refreshed lineup of Google Home and Nest devices, designed to showcase its AI assistant Gemini AI. The company also took the wraps off its revamped Google Home software platform and its new business strategy for the AI era.
While the company still plans to compete on hardware, it also wants to make Gemini…
Enterprise giant Salesforce is looking to ride the vibe-coding wave – where developers describe what they want in natural language and AI agents write the code – with its new AI-powered developer tool.
Salesforce announced its new vibe-coding offering…
New project makes Wikipedia data more accessible to AI
October 2, 2025
On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.
Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a vector-based semantic search – a technique that helps computers…
Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems raised a new round of private financing despite its previous plan to be trading on the public market by 2025.
Silicon Valley-based Cerebras announced it raised a $1.1 billion Series G round on Tuesday that valued the AI hardware company at $8.1 billion. The round was co-led by Fidelity and Atreides Management with participation from Tiger Global, Valor Equity…
AI-powered app development is really taking off, and smartphone maker Nothing seems intent on capitalizing on the trend: The company on Tuesday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known…
Opera launches its AI-centric Neon browser
October 1, 2025
Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature called “Cards.” With this Opera joins a growing number of companies like Perplexity and The…
ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground
September 30, 2025
Making democracy work isn’t easy, as recent events have made clear. Some critics would argue that technology is making it worse. But one startup is hoping that AI could help bridge some differences instead of widen them.
“I had an a-ha moment one day when I realized people are asking AI to explain something like they’re five years old,” Tomy Lorsch, co-founder and CEO of…
