What Makes AI Companies Worth Investing In Today

The AI investment climate has transformed. Venture capital now flows to companies with proven value, not promises. Two experts explain the new rules.

OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation

OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion.

The speech police came for Colbert
The speech police came for Colbert

Generally speaking, arcane and mostly unenforced FCC rules are not the province of late night talk shows. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems intent on changing that, though; not long after causing a ruckus that briefly took Jimmy Kimmel off the air, his vague threats appear to have been enough to convince CBS to tell Stephen […]

Money no longer matters to AI’s top talent
Money no longer matters to AI’s top talent

Today on Decoder we’re going to talk about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. The vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nowadays, such companies are paying […]

Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory

Reload announces a $2.275 million raise in a round led by Anthemis and the launch of its first AI employee, Epic.

OpenAI, Reliance partner to add AI search to JioHotstar

The rollout includes two-way integration that surfaces streaming links directly inside ChatGPT.

Co-founders behind Reface and Prisma join hands to improve on-device model inference with Mirai

Mirai raised a $10 million seed to improve how AI models run on devices like smartphones and laptops.

For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.

It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets
It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the love-hate (but mostly hate) relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington. I hope everyone got to celebrate George Washington’s birthday in their preferred manner: skiing, staycationing, subscribing to The Verge if you haven’t already, etc. Prediction: this is going to be a mess Political […]

Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who held their hands conspicuously apart.