Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6% last year, due mostly to pollution generated by the company’s delivery fleet and increased data center construction.

The American public is deeply skeptical of artificial intelligence (AI). Any vehicle that is marketed with AI at the front of the conversation has a steep hurdle to clear to prove itself as more than just a smartphone on wheels. The new Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan does just that.

One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."

Scale AI is cutting 14% of the company just weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion in the startup and hired away its CEO.

Want to help xAI create more AI avatars after my colleague Victoria Song said Grok’s anime companion made her want to “bleach my soul and get myself to a nunnery”? You can now apply to be a fullstack engineer or a mobile Android engineer where that’s your full-time job.

A new report from Totally Human Media reveals that nearly 20 percent of video games released on Steam in 2025 use generative AI.

Nearly three-quarters of teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly, new research finds. Moreover, one-third turn to chatbots for social interactions.

Across the board, the AI users exhibited markedly lower neural activity in parts of the brain associated with creative functions and attention. Students who wrote with the chatbot’s help also found it much harder to provide an accurate quote from the paper that they had just produced.

Stripe's CEO, Patrick Collison, says AI is "terrific" for facts — but when it comes to writing, he'd rather stick to his own style.

For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.

During the summit held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, companies promised new data centers, new jobs, cybersecurity education, energy research, and more.