Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is making a direct appeal to federal, state, and national security agencies with a new suite of AI tools branded "Grok for Government," part of a larger strategy to position the company as a cornerstone of U.S. public-sector innovation.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2025
A week after Elon Musk's AI chatbot went full Nazi, the Department of Defense handed xAI a $200 million contract. The timing says everything about how broken AI deployment has become.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2025
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth up to $200 million each to four American artificial intelligence firms—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI—in a bid to accelerate the deployment of advanced AI capabilities across a range of military and government operations, the Pentagon said on Monday.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2025
Meta Platforms has formally launched Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new division intended to centralize and accelerate its artificial intelligence development efforts, as it moves to compete more directly with top-tier AI labs including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/08/2025
Anthropic gave Claude complete control over a mini-mart for a month. The results reveal both the promise and peril of AI's economic future. For one month, this humble setup in Anthropic's San Francisco office served as the testing ground for "Project Vend"—an experiment to see whether Claude, the company's flagship AI assistant, could successfully run a small business.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/30/2025
Google DeepMind announced the full release of Gemma 3n, the latest version of its lightweight generative AI model designed specifically for mobile and edge devices, in a move that reinforces the company's emphasis on on-device computing.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
China's leading search engine provider Baidu said on Sunday it will open-source its flagship generative AI chatbot, Ernie, marking a major strategic shift for the firm and intensifying global pressure on AI model pricing.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
Authorization infrastructure company AuthZed has launched specialized tools to help organizations control how artificial intelligence systems access and handle sensitive data, addressing growing security concerns as AI adoption accelerates in enterprise environments.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
A new open standard for connecting artificial intelligence models to enterprise systems is creating potential security vulnerabilities that could be difficult for organizations to detect and manage, cybersecurity experts said.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
Groq has expanded its cloud AI offerings with the integration of Qwen3-32B, a dense 32.8 billion parameter language model developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team. The new deployment brings multilingual reasoning and conversation capabilities to GroqCloud, marking a notable step in making large language models more accessible for production-grade workloads.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
US-based cybersecurity firm Operant AI on Saturday launched MCP Gateway, an extension of its AI Gatekeeper platform designed to provide runtime protection for enterprise deployments built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
Nearly two in five Generation Z workers are using artificial intelligence to automate workplace tasks without their managers' knowledge, according to a new survey that reveals how the youngest employees are quietly transforming office practices.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
The Trump administration is preparing a package of executive actions aimed at increasing energy supply to support artificial intelligence development in the United States, as the country competes with China in a technological race that requires massive power resources, Reuters has reported.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/27/2025