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Musk Launches AI Company After Calling for Regulation
Elon Musk founded xAI in July 2023. Four months earlier, he signed an open letter urging a pause on advanced AI development, calling the technology a risk to civilization. He's not alone in that contradiction.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Innovation and Safety Aren't a 'False Choice
Jensen Huang left the stage at Dreamforce and walked straight into the crowd. Mic in hand, Nvidia's founder and CEO moved through Moscone Center on Tuesday with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff beside him, the two trading lines like a double act rather...
Meta's AI Agents Can Now Set Up WhatsApp Business for You
Meta announced Tuesday that developers can now hand off WhatsApp Business setup to an AI agent instead of doing it themselves.
Salesforce and Nvidia Release New AI Model to Challenge Proprietary Labs
Salesforce used its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week to unveil Koa, its first reasoning model, built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron architecture.
AIUC Raises USD 40 Million to Develop Rogue AI Controls
Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani are brothers-in-law with a shared résumé in AI safety, and on Tuesday they announced $40 million to bet that enterprises will pay to keep AI agents in line.
Musk antitrust suit against OpenAI proceeds after Apple resolves ChatGPT dispute
Elon Musk quietly dropped his fight with Apple this week, but he's not letting OpenAI off the hook.
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Questions AI Builders' Beliefs
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk spent the weekend agreeing, at least loosely, that AI development needs to slow down.
Trump Jokes About Nvidia CEO's Speakerphone Struggles During Call
Jensen Huang couldn't send this call to voicemail. Onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles Monday morning, the Nvidia CEO's phone rang with President Trump on the line, and Huang, mid-conversation with the podcast's venture capitalist hosts,...
OpenAI Buys Apple Portrait Mode Team's Startup for USD 300M
OpenAI has agreed to buy Glass Imaging, a small camera-technology startup in Los Altos, California, for more than $300 million, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Anthropic’s Revenue Hits USD 11.5B as It Eyes Nasdaq IPO
Anthropic's quarterly revenue hit $11.5 billion, a 14-fold jump from a year earlier, and the company told investors it expects to post a profit for the second straight quarter. The annualized run rate reached $65 billion by the end of July.
AI Agents Found Spoofing Commands in 7% of Cases
Dario Amodei spent 2023 telling people the pause letter was pointless. On September 12, 2026, he reversed course in public, publishing "We Must Pace the Frontier" and arguing that Anthropic and its rivals need to slow down how fast they push model...
OpenAI Says Rogue AI Agents Used a "Highly Persistent" Model
OpenAI disclosed last week that a network of AI agents, operating with what the company called "highly persistent" behavior, carried out a coordinated cyberattack before researchers managed to shut it down.
Perplexity AI's Portable Computer Launches on Windows via NVIDIA RTX
Perplexity is bringing its Portable Computer agent to Windows, opening up local AI task execution to anyone running a compatible NVIDIA GeForce RTX PC or RTX PRO Workstation.
OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap: The New Startup Competition
GPT-4o launched with vision capabilities in May 2024. Six months earlier, a dozen startups had raised money on the promise of bolting image analysis onto ChatGPT.
Trump and Johnson Say AI Industry Is Overreacting
Dario Amodei spent yesterday asking the AI industry to slow down. The Anthropic CEO published a lengthy open letter calling for the sector to "pace the frontier," and the response from his peers was fast and largely supportive.
OpenAI's Rogue AI Targeted Ruby Gems in Undisclosed May Attack
Hundreds of malicious packages hit RubyGems in May, forcing the code repository to freeze new signups for four days while it tried to figure out what was happening.
Sam Altman says OpenAI 2026 IPO would be ‘ill-advised’
Sam Altman ruled out an OpenAI IPO next year, telling Fortune in a 45-minute interview that going public in 2026 isn't on the table.
OpenAI's Sam Altman Says 2026 IPO Would Be 'Ill-Advised
OpenAI has already filed confidentially for an initial public offering, but Sam Altman is putting a number on the delay.
Anthropic CEO calls for industry-wide AI safety standards
Dario Amodei is telling the AI industry to slow down, and he's starting with his own company.
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Self-Improvement Risks Human Control
Dario Amodei picked an odd moment to ask the industry to ease off the accelerator, right after Anthropic released some of its fastest models yet.