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Canadian AI startup Cohere has appointed Joelle Pineau, former head of Meta's AI research division, as its first chief AI officer, the company announced this week alongside a $500 million funding round that values the firm at $6.8 billion. Read Now
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled plans to issue a new set of cybersecurity guidelines aimed at safeguarding artificial intelligence (AI) systems, citing rising concerns over risks tied to generative models, predictive analytics, and autonomous agents. Read Now
Artificial intelligence search company Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser, positioning itself as a potential solution to ongoing antitrust concerns surrounding the search giant's market dominance. Read Now
Anthropic said Tuesday it will offer its Claude AI services to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1 per agency for one year, escalating a pricing war with rival OpenAI for lucrative government contracts. Read Now
Anthropic expanded the context window of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model to 1 million tokens on Tuesday, a fivefold increase that allows the system to process entire software codebases or dozens of research papers in a single request. Read Now
Microsoft has integrated OpenAI’s newly unveiled GPT-5 into its full spectrum of AI-driven tools, from Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot to Microsoft Copilot for consumers and Azure AI Foundry. Read Now
OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday with the kind of fanfare that has become standard for the company's major model releases. CEO Sam Altman called it "a significant step along the path to AGI" and claimed it feels like "talking to a PhD-level expert." The reality, as usual with AI announcements, is more nuanced than the marketing suggests. Read Now
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model yet, now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. GPT-5 unifies previous models into a single, auto-switching system with a deeper reasoning mode for complex tasks. Read Now
This column is the product of an ongoing hunt for companies that use AI for more than simply writing emails and creating prettier pictures of their executives. Although many seem content treating artificial intelligence like an increasingly more expensive toy, I've been seeking people and organizations that understand the true potential of this technology: systematically improving business outcomes through intelligent automation. Read Now