“It’s like these alien intelligences have crash landed on earth and they're incredibly smart, but nobody knows how they work,” says Eric Ho, CEO of $1.25 billion startup Goodfire, which has built tools that allow researchers to peek under the hood of AI models. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Another day. Another neolab fundraise. xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin is in talks to raise up to $1 billion at an up to $5 billion valuation for a new AI startup, sources tell Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

NEW: Scribe develops AI software that records employees while they work to help businesses find inefficiencies and workflows for automation. The $1.3 billion startup crossed $100 million in ARR, the company tells Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

AI music startup Suno is battling record labels and angry artists as it upends how millions of people create songs. It's become smash-hit success with some $150 million in estimated 2025 revenue, as the tide starts to turn in its favor. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO in September; hardware veteran John Ternus to take the helm. Ternus faces an immediate challenge: fixing Apple’s lagging AI strategy as the company trails rivals in the generative AI race. www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Excited to reveal the 2026 Forbes AI 50 List, which spotlights the most promising privately-held AI companies in the world. forbes.com/lists/ai50/

Mercor reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Run by the youngest-ever self made billionaires, the startup is facing a wave of challenges: employee fraud, North Korean infiltration and cultural growing pains. With Anna Tong. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Inside the latest edition of The Prompt: We're entering the era of "dark code" says VC Sarah Guo. And with AI agents shipping software super-fast, security incidents like Claude Code's leak and Mercor hit by a widespread attack are only going to be more prevalent. www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

The OpenAI Graveyard: All The Deals And Products That Haven’t Happened. With @pheebini.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

Crosby is an entirely new type of law firm where AI agents and lawyers work together to speed up contract review for buzzy AI startups like Cursor, Cognition and Runway. The $400 million-valued firm is disrupting the way traditional law firms work. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Exclusive: Latent Health, which is building an AI system to help doctors and pharmacists get drugs and treatments approved by insurers faster, has raised $80 million from Spark Capital and Transformation Capital. The startup is valued at $600 million. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

🚨NEW🚨 Cops used an AI-generated teenager to catch pedophiles on Kik Messenger, an app notorious as a hive of predator activity. A rare insight into how police can spin up AI teens for sting operations on social media. But where else are cops using AI personas? www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: with the rise of powerful AI agents like Claude Code, developers may no longer need a code editor at all. With Anna Tong. www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: with the rise of powerful AI agents developers may no longer need a code editor at all. With Anna Tong. www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

AI behemoth Anthropic has come into the U.S. government’s line of fire. But thanks to wild turn of events over the last few days, the Anthropic-Pentagon kerfuffle has become a optics headache for OpenAI. A full recap in the latest edition of The Prompt: www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Anthropic has been on a roll lately, from snarky Superbowl ads to a $30 billion mega funding round to product launches that triggered a global software stock selloff. Read more in the latest editon of The Prompt: www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Influencer marketing has helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just eleven months. But misleading marketing tactics, payment problems and a social media strategy based on shock has led to backlash among creators. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Racist videos, misleading marketing tactics and payment problems: the dark side of video AI startup Higgsfield's super fast growth. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Moltbook, the social media platform dedicated to AI agents, exploded in popularity over the weekend. While humans supposedly aren't allowed to participate, they sure had a lot of reactions, from being unimpressed to calling it "swarm intelligence." www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

While authors litigate, publishers are leaning in. Publishers like Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and Wiley are actively, and perhaps quietly, recruiting AI engineers. Despite writer pushback, the industry is looking to leverage AI for back-office efficiency. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Talking with Alex LeBrun, cofounder of Nabla and CEO of Yann LaCun’s new AI startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, about why healthcare will be a big focus. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Daniel Nadler, the 42-year-old CEO and cofounder of OpenEvidence has doubled his net worth to $7.6 billion after his medical AI startup hit a $12 billion valuation. First one of the year from me! www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

🚨NEW🚨 Google shipped its AI code editor Antigravity with a bunch of security vulnerabilities. The most severe, discovered within 24 hours of launch, allows for a persistent backdoor on target systems. It remains unpatched. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

"An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C). 'You’d end up with charcoal!' she said. Meanwhile, traffic to her turkey recipe is already down 40% year over year."

Scoop from @iainmartin.bsky.social, @rashis.bsky.social and me: Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise at a $6 billion valuation. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

🚨SCOOP 🚨The Pentagon is spending millions on a secretive startup that’s making hacking AI to help carry out operations on hundreds of targets at once. In-q-tel, the VC org founded by the CIA, is a backer of the startup, called Twenty. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

NEW: The four cofounders of popular AI coding software Cursor are newly minted billionaires. Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark are each worth at least $1.31 billion, according to Forbes' estimates. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

AI language learning app Speak has crossed $100 million in annualized revenue. Founded by former Thiel fellows Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu in 2016, the company is up against better-known rival Duolingo as it enters the U.S. market. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? Latest for @forbes.com with @pheebini.bsky.social and @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Scoop: “Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves” me, for @forbes.com 1/

New: I profiled Sierra, the $10B AI customer service startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, which wants to make AI agents the primary way businesses interact with customers. For the piece, I talked to their old bosses, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

NEW: Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation to build AI models that are better at collaborating with humans. The startup is called Humans&. With Anna Tong and @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

A scoopy day at @forbes.com. Another one from @iainmartin.bsky.social and me— buzzy legal AI startup Harvey has closed a $150 million funding round, nabbing a $8 billion valuation. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Scoop: AI video company Synthesia has raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by GV (Google's venture arm). With Anna Tong and @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/ www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

OpenEvidence’s CEO and cofounder Daniel Nadler is $1.3 billion richer in just three months after the AI startup hit a $6 Billion valuation. With @amyfeldman7.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts. User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent. First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

This was all found in hundreds of emails obtained via public records requests for comms between various police departments and Amazon's law enforcement and school safety lead, an ex-cop himself. Yes, Amazon has also been pushing AI surveillance at schools.

SCOOP: Legal AI startup Legora is in talks to raise funding at $1.8 billion valuation, multiple sources told Forbes. The startup is raising between $100 million to $150 million, one of the sources said. With @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

NEW: Axiom Math, a nascent startup that's developing an AI math whiz, has poached top tier AI talent— largely from Meta. Founded by 24-year-old Stanford dropout Carina Hong, it's raised $64 million in seed funding from B Capital, Greycroft and others. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

My TikTok book is out in stores today! Why should you read it? Because 1 in 5 Americans now get their news from this thing. We should all understand how it works. It was inevitable that strongmen would seek to control a tool this powerful. The book is the story of what happened when they did.

Just checkin in about the fate of CapCut and a bunch of other apps that millions of Americans use www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

NEW: Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee is a "blessing in disguise" for European AI startups that need more senior level talent, founders say. The "human tariff" will likely impact early stage US startups that use equity for compensation. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

We chatted with European startup founders who think Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could be a boon for the region: “We almost say thank you to Trump, in a way. He’s really helping us keep our talent.” With @rashis.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

The “dirty secret” in the field of AI is that it's humans that are making choices about what data AI models ingest to answer questions, not machines, Manifest AI cofounders said. The research lab claims its new model architecture can help fix that. www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

2/ A closer look at financials here: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

3/ The core of what's at risk here, and how CoreWeave's cofounders are thinking about it: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

New @forbes.com magazine cover story—from @rashis.bsky.social and me—is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...