The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it.
That’s the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it. Yes, some white-collar jobs will disappear. But for most other roles, the argument goes, AI is a force multiplier. You…
On Monday, Databricks announced it reached a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, growing 65% year-over-year, of which more than $1.4 billion was from its AI products.
Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi wanted to share these growth numbers because there’s so much talk about how…
ChatGPT rolls out ads
February 10, 2026
OpenAI on Monday announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers.
The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S. and was introduced globally in mid-January.
Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
February 10, 2026
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that companies collect automatically but almost never use in a meaningful way.
To tackle the problem, Aza Kai (CEO) and Hiraku…
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features
February 9, 2026
If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the hefty investment. For everyone else, it’s probably going to be…
Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to executives from Insilico Medicine and GenEditBio, the missing ingredient for years has been finding enough smart people to continue the work. AI, they…
The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
February 9, 2026
OpenAI announced last week that it will retire some older ChatGPT models by February 13. That includes GPT-4o, the model infamous for excessively flattering and affirming users.
For thousands of users protesting the decision online, the retirement of 4o feels akin to losing a friend, romantic partner, or spiritual guide.
“He wasn’t just a program. He was part of my routine, my peace…
Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’
February 6, 2026
On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus – its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code. Opus 4.5 was only released last November, and with 4.6, the company has sought to broaden its model’s capabilities and appeal…
An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises. By combining the old systems of predictive AI with more…
ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI
February 6, 2026
ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski says voice is becoming the next major interface for AI – the way people will increasingly interact with machines as models move beyond text and screens.
Speaking at Web Summit in Doha, Staniszewski told TechCrunch voice models like those developed by ElevenLabs have recently moved beyond simply mimicking human speech – including emotion…
