Author: Dr. Priya Menon

Priya holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and spent six years as a research scientist at DeepMind before transitioning to journalism. She writes with technical precision without losing accessibility, and her work has been cited in MIT Technology Review and Wired. She specializes in large language models, AI policy, and the ethics of automated systems.

AI Industry Enters Era of Pragmatism as Focus Shifts from Giant Models to Real-World Deployment

The AI industry is pivoting from ever-larger models to practical deployment, with smaller specialized models, world model breakthroughs, and intensifying Chinese competition defining the new…

March 4, 2026 5 min read

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in Largest Private Tech Funding Round in History

OpenAI secured $110 billion from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion valuation, marking the largest private tech funding in history and reshaping the…

March 4, 2026 5 min read

Inside the Black Box: Scientists Make Breakthrough Progress in Understanding How AI Models Think

Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are making unprecedented progress in understanding how AI models work internally, with mechanistic interpretability named one of the…

March 2, 2026 5 min read