John Ternus spent 24 years at Apple learning how to make things Apple owns. On Tuesday he became chief executive of a company that rents its most important AI capability.
The company that once bragged about doing more with less is now raising one of the largest private financings in Chinese technology history.
In February 2025, Clay was worth $1.25 billion. On Sunday, Axios reported the New York company has inked a deal at $7 billion pre-money.
Somewhere in the enterprise software stack, an AI agent is quietly installing a skill it found on the open internet. Nobody signed it.
The tightest bottleneck in artificial intelligence right now weighs several tons, contains no silicon, and has a three-year lead time.
Pull a shirt off a rack and drag it onto a photo of yourself. The shirt lands. Nothing compiled to make that happen.
For a week in late August, the most-used coding model on OpenRouter was one nobody could name. It went by ox-alpha.
For three years, Khanmigo could explain a parabola. It could not draw one. As of back-to-school 2026, it can.
Alibaba's Wan3.0 will hand you 30 seconds of 1080p video with dialogue, music and sound effects from a single API call.
Strip a research paper away and leave only its footnotes. That is the entire input in Reconstruction, a blind benchmark posted in August.
The most-read paper in AI drug discovery this summer is not a victory lap. It is an audit, and the audit does not balance.
The most expensive mistake an AI agent makes is rarely the one you can see. It is the click three steps back.
On Monday, the Pentagon quietly became the largest enterprise deployment of frontier AI in the world.
On August 27, a federal judge in San Francisco told the Department of War that it had broken the law. It changed almost nothing.
One month into the EU AI Act's enforcement era, the most powerful regulator in AI has not fined anyone.
When Maria Ressa announced the campaign from the UN podium, it did something most open letters avoid: it wrote a date into its own text.