Richard Nieva is a San Francisco-based senior writer who covers technology. He joined Forbes in 2022 and covers public companies and artificial intelligence. Previously, he wrote for BuzzFeed News, CNET and Fortune Magazine, and his work has been featured in The New York Times,
This Tech Incubator Is Harder To Get Into Than Harvard
Founded by early Facebook investor Ali Partovi, Neo has made big bets on founders of hotshot AI startups Pika and Anysphere, the company behind coding tool Cursor. With $320 million in new funding, it's aiming to cement its status as the Ivy League of startup boot camps.
These Chinese AI Companies Could Be The Next DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s meteoric rise put the spotlight on artificial intelligence from China. Here are the other buzzy Chinese AI companies to watch.
Trump’s Tariffs Could Cost Us The AI Race
While the semiconductor brains of artificial intelligence are so far exempt from tariffs, the materials used to build the massive sites where they are installed and operated are not. That’s a problem.
This $1 Billion Cyber Startup Stops Employees From Leaking Vital Data To AI
Cyberhaven, which just raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, offers AI tools designed to prevent employees from putting proprietary information into tools like ChatGPT.
Anthropic And Databricks Team Up To Help Customers Launch Their Own AI Agents
The deal will bring flagship model Claude, to thousands of corporate customers, including Comcast, Conde Nast and Block.
A Growing Side Hustle For American College Grads: Fixing AI’s Wrong Answers
As AI models get more complex, so do the tasks carried out by humans to train them. It’s given Scale a new focus on U.S.-based labor.
New Data Shows Just How Badly OpenAI And Perplexity Are Screwing Over Publishers
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that’s not the case.
It Took Two Tries For The DOJ To Convince Apple And Google To Restore TikTok
Fearing enormous fines, Google and Apple held off from reinstating TikTok to their app stores until the DOJ sent them a second version of President Trump’s “written guidance.”
How Elon Musk Tried To Jack Up The Price Of OpenAI's Nonprofit Overnight
The $97.4 billion bid muddles up Sam Altman’s quest to convert the ChatGPT-maker into a for-profit company.
Amazon And Tesla Use This Company’s AI To Prevent Warehouse Accidents
Protex AI, backed by Salesforce Ventures, just raised a $36 million Series B to help companies detect when workers aren’t wearing hard hats and engaging in other types of unsafe behavior.