Parmy Olson

NEW YORK (TNS) — Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are giving us whiplash by changing their stories on employment. The most likely outcome is neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs that remain. Last year, Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei warned AI would eliminate...

With the artificial intelligence race moving so rapidly, even a momentary lag can be costly. Alphabet Inc.’s Google is learning this the hard way: The search giant rapidly caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic last year when it released Gemini 3, an AI model that surpassed key rivals on many benchmarks. Now, it’s slipping behind on AI coding. The problem isn’t Google’s technology, but a confounding tangle of red tape.

WITH the artificial intelligence race moving so rapidly, even a momentary lag can be costly.

Whatever went on in the closed-door negotiations between Anthropic PBC and the US government, it worked. Foreign access restrictions on the company’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models have been dropped after Anthropic resolved the Trump administration’s safety concerns. The startup’s longtime focus on investing in safety had made the initial ban sting. What’s more unsettling now is that the agreements it made with the government to secure the reversal are a mystery.

The US government's secrecy over what got restrictions lifted on AI company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models is not a good sign at all for users of American AI tools. It only heightens uncertainty. Here's what the US should consider doing instead.

When Mark Zuckerberg gets a bold new business idea, he likes to throw money at it. Last summer, he dropped $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, allowing him to poach its wunderkind founder Alexandr Wang to lead a new project to build artificial-intelligence systems that surpass human intelligence. He doled out $300 million pay packages to poach top scientists to build an all-star team called Superintelligence Labs.

Silicon Valley has long defined victory in the global artificial intelligence race as being determined by capability. Whoever has the smartest and most powerful AI model leads the pack. But what if winning were instead defined by adoption by technologists? In that case, China is swiftly gaining ground.

When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we’ve been used to seeing for more than a decade, online advertisers

When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we've been used to seeing for more than a decade, online advertisers had something of a collective freak-out. The Alphabet Inc.-owned company called it the biggest such shift in more than 25 years, and that the search bar would be “completely reimagined” with artificial intelligence.

Investors who piled into SK Hynix’s $28 billion blockbuster Nasdaq debut on Friday should be aware: The business model on which the world’s leading memory chip makers are thriving is set to shift to one that requires a bit more strategic and financial gambling. So far, SK Hynix Inc. is making all the right moves but it’s unclear how well the field’s leading players will deal with that disruption.