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Executives at Palantir, whose stock has risen about 16 times since its AI platform debuted in 2023, often denounce other AI as shoddy as competition from frontier AI labs grows (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 10, 2026

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Executives at Palantir, whose stock has risen about 16 times since its AI platform…

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Impressions of the Chinese AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs, and the similarities and differences in LLM work in China and the West (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs: How voice becomes the interface for everything Sequoia Capital partners host conversations…

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Ripple Labs investor and director Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the biggest gap | Evan Spiegel Interviews with world-class product…

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Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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OpenAI supports an Illinois bill protecting AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms,” such as more than 100 deaths or more than $1 billion in damages, if safety reports were released (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: OpenClaw for standards is here A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted by…

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AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation and has reached an annual run rate of more than $100 million (Anna Tong/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Anna Tong / Forbes: AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a…

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Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday, as well as some in recruiting, sales and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Eli Tan / New York Times: Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday,…

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Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred people within Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting and some sales positions (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Jyoti Mann / The information: Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred…

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Memo: Meta hires founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo Barra joins Meta Superintelligence Labs (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta hires founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo…

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Human Rights Watch: At least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance technology to more than 24 countries known to violate human rights (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Instructure struck a deal with hackers who hacked its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy the copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (Qasim Nauman/New York Times)

AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to about 8.3 million in April, from a peak of more than 20 million in January; Recon Analytics says U.S. paid adoption of Grok remains nearly flat year-over-year in second quarter (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which grew to $445 million in revenue in its first 18 months, on its math competition roots, coding agent Devin AI, more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)

Satya Nadella claims Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft’s investments in OpenAI violated any specific terms or commitments (CNBC)

Browsing: Labs

Executives at Palantir, whose stock has risen about 16 times since its AI platform debuted in 2023, often denounce other AI as shoddy as competition from frontier AI labs grows (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Impressions of the Chinese AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs, and the similarities and differences in LLM work in China and the West (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

Ripple Labs investor and director Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

OpenAI supports an Illinois bill protecting AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms,” such as more than 100 deaths or more than $1 billion in damages, if safety reports were released (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation and has reached an annual run rate of more than $100 million (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday, as well as some in recruiting, sales and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred people within Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting and some sales positions (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Memo: Meta hires founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo Barra joins Meta Superintelligence Labs (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)