AI & Machine Learning
16 articles
Articles in this topic
Mark Zuckerberg: the Harvard student who now spends $140 billion a year on AI
How a Harvard student built the largest social network in history, survived the Winklevoss lawsuit and a failed crypto project called Libra, and turned Meta into one of Silicon Valley's biggest AI bets — with a $140 billion-a-year AI budget.
Jensen Huang: How a Kid From a Denny's Diner Built a Giant
For thirty years, Jensen Huang told employees Nvidia was "thirty days from going out of business" — now he runs a $4.7 trillion company. The founder's story, from a Denny's diner to his first-ever X post and $1 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin chip orders.
Sam Altman: The Billionaire who doesn't own a single share of OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't own a single share of OpenAI, yet became a billionaire in its orbit. The story of a man who went from a teenager in St. Louis to a figure promising the world superintelligence — with five days of being fired in 2023, Worldcoin, and a very public personal life.
The AI you don't see is already running the world
While everyone argues about chatbots, a much bigger share of AI works quietly in the background: balancing power grids, speeding up drug discovery, watching crops from orbit, and moderating billions of posts a day.
Perplexity: the ad-free search engine that's making money anyway
Perplexity AI walked away from advertising in February 2026 — and revenue still jumped 50% the next month. Here's how the upstart search engine got to a $23B valuation, and what isn't going smoothly.
Anthropic now outspends OpenAI on Washington lobbying
Anthropic spent $3.53 million on federal lobbying in the first half of 2026 — nearly triple last year's pace, and $1.3 million more than OpenAI. Here's where the money went and why now.
Wispr Flow and AI Voice Typing Services: 2026 Comparison
AI voice typing services — Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, Willow Voice, Aqua Voice and more: how they work, what they cost, how they differ, and which one actually fits your workflow.
Wispr Flow: the startup replacing your keyboard with your voice — and racing toward a $2 billion valuation
Here's Wispr Flow — the app that turns your speech into polished text inside any program. The founders' story, real growth numbers, user reviews, and why investors are valuing the company at nearly $2 billion.
Silicon Valley's weird AI-dictation mask trend is the tip of a $22 billion voice AI boom
Silicon Valley offices have filled with people dictating prompts out loud — and along with them came masks and earbuds designed to mute that voice for everyone else. Behind the quirk is a startup about to become a $2 billion unicorn.
Five startups that defined Silicon Valley's last two years — and why crypto barely made the list
Five companies founded in Silicon Valley over the past two years are worth nearly $100 billion combined today — and not one of them is a crypto project. We break down each one: who founded it, what it's worth now, what the founders themselves say — and what happened to crypto startups from the same region in the same window.
AI and crypto: the quiet revolution making some rich and firing others
While AI bots are generating double-digit returns for traders and protocols like Bittensor are valued in the billions, the same technology has already cost the crypto industry more than 5,700 jobs. Here's where AI actually works in crypto — and where it's headed next.
Gemini and Google DeepMind: The Full Story
From Bard's disastrous debut, which wiped $100 billion off Alphabet's market cap, to 900 million monthly users — here's the full history of Gemini and Google DeepMind: products, growth, controversies, and lawsuits.
Grok and xAI: The Full Story of Elon Musk's AI
From a "maximally truth-seeking AI" to a $1.25 trillion merger with SpaceX — here's the full history, products, growth, and controversies behind Grok and xAI, in one place.
OpenAI and ChatGPT: A Full Look at the Company
OpenAI is now valued at $852 billion, with ChatGPT topping 900 million weekly users. Here's its history, its products, the lawsuits following it, and where it actually stands in the 2026 AI rankings.
Anthropic and Claude: A Full Look at the Company Betting Everything on AI Safety
A company that split from OpenAI over safety disagreements is now valued at nearly $1 trillion. Here's the full picture: Anthropic's history, the entire Claude model lineup, what its safety philosophy actually means in practice, and what genuinely sets it apart from the competition.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Grok vs Perplexity: Comparing 2026's Top 5 AI Services
Five different companies, five different ideas of what a "helpful AI" should even be. Here's a plain-language breakdown of what actually separates ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity — what they cost, who they're built for, and what problem each one is really solving.