OpenClaw’s WhatsApp AI assistant runs on Pi, a tiny coding agent built around simplicity, self-modification, and AI restraint.

This year, TIME editors launch the TIME100 Companies: Industry Leaders lists, an expansion of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies issue that dives deeper into 20 sectors to look at the companies shaping their industries. These are the 10 most influential companies in AI of 2026.

Alpha School, which is pushing to open this fall in Boston, is a private, for-profit that claims children can “crush academics” in just two hours a day with AI.

Philippe Laffont’s firm has launched “Next Frontier,” whose facilities will be meant for AI companies including Anthropic.

USA TODAY Sports asked Microsoft Copilot AI to pick the winner and results for the Kentucky Derby based on simulation. There's one horse it likes most

The Pentagon has signed agreements with leading AI firms, including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, advancing military capabilities amid a dispute over safeguards.

SoundHound AI rode Twilio's coattails today. The voice AI market is heating up.

Caitlin Clark had some fun after an AI-generated image from the Indiana Fever didn't quite get the look of her hand exactly right.