While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs – also known as AI sycophancy – a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
The study, titled “Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence” and recently published in…
Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated – coupled with the company’s funny Super Bowl ads taking aim at OpenAI and the surging popularity of Claude Code – has made Anthropic more…
SK hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is laying the groundwork for a potential U.S. listing that could reportedly raise an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion.
The company announced this week that it has confidentially filed a Form F-1 with…
Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems
March 27, 2026
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping into Flock’s camera network to surveil people, and home camera maker Ring drawing criticism for building new features that would enable law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their neighborhoods, there’s currently…
The signs that AI could lead to mass job displacement are already piling up: Entry-level job postings in the U.S. have sunk 35% since 2023, mass layoffs have swept across Big Tech, and even AI leaders are warning about what’s coming.
Backstage at the Axios AI Summit…
French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts…
Meta is looking to leverage AI’s ability to inform and potentially influence shoppers to increase sales on the company’s social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram.
At the Shoptalk 2026 conference this week, the tech giant announced it will begin testing a new experience that allows consumers to see more product information and a summary of user reviews after they click on an…
With Sift, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor
March 26, 2026
The cry of “atoms, not bits!” – a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products – reached a fever pitch last week with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a $100 billion fund to roll…
Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now.
While many companies are trying to build humanoids or tout demos of their robots dancing and doing flips, Lucid…
A secretive AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock shared new details about what it believes is a novel marriage of model-building and hardware design that will change how humans interact with intelligent software.
The company said in a statement it would design multimodal end-to-end models, its hardware, and its interfaces in tandem to deliver a “seamless end-to-end personal…
