Rivian’s in-vehicle AI assistant launched in its vehicles on May 12, 2026. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT — What’s the best advanced driver-assistance system on the market? Ask Rivian Automotive‘s new artificial intelligence and it will say its creator. “Rivian’s is truly exceptional … an unmatched blend of safety and technology,” the chatbot told me…
Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, speaks during a Google AI event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Earlier this year, Google AI lead Jeff Dean, on a podcast, discussed a concept that, at the time, was hardly spoken about…
Air taxi makers have hyped science fiction-like flying cars for years. But as that dream inches closer to reality, legal squabbles are clouding that momentum. Last year, Joby Aviation sued Archer, accusing the rival air taxi maker of “corporate espionage” and using stolen information to interfere with a real estate developer deal. Weeks later, Archer…
Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 4, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Nvidia stepped on the gas last year, putting cash into companies up and down the AI infrastructure stack and helping…
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of companies tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure tumbled in early trading Tuesday after a report that OpenAI has fallen short of internal growth expectations, raising fresh questions about whether the pace of spending across the sector is sustainable. Oracle dropped about 7.5% in premarket trading Tuesday. Oracle…
OpenAI’s newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company’s alliance with Amazon as a key growth driver for its enterprise business, while noting the constraints of its long-standing tie-up with Microsoft. Dresser’s memo lands less than two months after Amazon announced plans to invest up to $50…
Arda Kucukkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top of a prior arrangement of $14.2 billion, as the social media company continues to ramp up its investments in artificial intelligence. CoreWeave also said Thursday it would raise $3…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding that a judge in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Kathaleen McCormick, recuse herself from two Tesla lawsuits, alleging she showed bias in supporting a LinkedIn post that was…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026, in Washington. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images In a document that resembles an IPO prospectus, OpenAI said its close ties with Microsoft could be a potential risk to its business, telling investors that the software company is responsible for “a substantial…
People queue to have their laptops install with OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant at the Baidu headquarter in Beijing on March 11, 2026. Adek Berry | Afp | Getty Images Three months ago, the tech industry was unaware of a lobster-themed AI coding project built by an under-the-radar Austrian software developer. OpenClaw, as that creation…
