Scott Rosenberg
What AI's spending boom is really buying
Tech giants' astronomical spending on AI infrastructure comes with a colossal hedge: In a crucial way, it's not really spending on AI at all. Most of the h
AI's anything-goes moment
The artificial intelligence industry is getting nothing but green lights in all directions—now it needs to deliver on its promises. AI makers are getting everything they hav
AI is hitting multiple tipping points
AI is hitting multiple tipping points in its impact on the tech industry, communication, government and human culture—and speakers at Axios' AI+ Summit mapped the transformative moment.
Americans to business: Take AI slow and do it right
While the tech industry floors the pedal on AI, the U.S. public would be happy to hit the brakes. More than three-quarters of Americans (77%) want companies to create AI slowly and get it right the first time, even if that delays breakthroughs, the 2025 Axios Harris 100 poll found. Only 23 percent of Americans want companies to develop AI quickly to speed breakthroughs, even at the price of mistakes along the way.
Google ad monopoly ruling's surprise winner
OpenAI wasn't mentioned once in a judge's 115-page decision against Google over its dominance of the online ad market—but the Chat
Hot new protocol glues together AI and apps
Artificial intelligence developers are embracing a new technical standard that's speeding up chatbots' capacity to access the rest of the software we use every day. The faster AI can start using the services and programs that shape our lives and work, the quicker it can save us time and money—and cause us new
AI eats social media as xAI swallows X
Elon Musk's self-deal for his AI company xAI to acquire X, formerly Twitter, is the strongest sign yet that the AI business is devouring the social media world. Musk's move is a maneuver
AI infrastructure's all-out spending spree
Chipmakers, cloud providers, energy producers and artificial intelligence companies are all flooring the pedal on infrastructure spending to support an AI-driven world that doesn't yet exist. Investors are placing hundred-billion-dollar bets that demand for AI is about to explode, while the technology has yet to persuasively demonstrate its