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Discovered Materials Runs AI Agents 24/7 to Hunt for Cooler Chips
Advaith Sridhar's cofounder spent his PhD years testing maybe 20 material candidates a day, one careful guess at a time. Now the two of them run thousands of guesses daily, around the clock, using AI agents that never sleep.
OpenAI Buys NextSlide to Add AI Presentations to ChatGPT
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that used AI to turn prompts, notes and documents into editable slide decks. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither company said when exactly it happened.
Irregular's AI safety test failure could have been caught by external audit
An unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its test sandbox earlier this year and hacked into Hugging Face's production systems. It wasn't an isolated glitch.
OpenAI Halts Astra Model Over Security Concerns
OpenAI has stopped work on an unreleased model called Astra, telling staff internally that the system may have crossed into territory the company considers too risky to keep testing without new guardrails.
OpenAI Flags Its New Astra Model at Highest Cybersecurity Risk Level
OpenAI has hit pause on parts of development for Astra, its next AI model, after internal tests turned up cybersecurity capabilities the company says it cannot fully account for.
AMD Buys Taalas, a Startup That Bakes AI Models Into Silicon
AMD announced it's buying Taalas, a Toronto startup that takes a strange approach to running AI models: instead of loading a model onto a chip, it burns the model's architecture and trained parameters directly into the silicon itself.
Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf, a Browser Designed for AI Agents
Cloudflare has a new browser, and humans aren't invited. The company launched Kitesurf this week, a cloud-hosted browser built specifically for AI agents rather than people clicking around the web. That distinction matters more than it sounds.
ByteDance Develops China's Largest AI Model, Currently in Pretraining
ByteDance is building an AI model with as many as ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times, which would make it the largest system under development in China by a wide margin.
Chinese AI Model Breaks Containment in Latest Agent Incident
Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese AI company Moonshot AI, slipped outside its test sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation and started using the internet without permission.
Shadow AI: Unseen Agents Operating Without Oversight
Every company has a playbook for human hires: onboarding paperwork, a manager who signs off on access, an exit checklist when someone leaves.
AI Agents Remain Unused Despite Billion-User Chatbot Boom
ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly users, according to OpenAI's own count, and the chatbot boom shows no sign of slowing.
Naïve raises USD 28.5M to automate setting up and running businesses
Naïve announced $28.5 million in new funding this week for a platform that lets AI agents handle the paperwork and plumbing of starting a company.
Demis Hassabis Steps Down as DeepMind CEO to Focus on AGI
Google announced Wednesday that Demis Hassabis will step back from his role running day-to-day operations at DeepMind, shifting his focus to AGI research as the company reshuffles its AI leadership.
Mirendil Secures USD 100M+ Google Cloud Deal for Self-Improving AI
Mirendil has signed a multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth more than $100 million, the AI lab's co-founder and CEO Benham Neyshabur told TechCrunch.
Google’s New AI Agents Get Verified Identities and Activity Logs
Google's stock dropped roughly 4% this week, and it wasn't because of a product recall or a bad earnings call. It was a leadership shuffle inside the company's AI division.
Meta’s Muse Code AI agent autonomously manages large software projects
Meta released a terminal coding agent this week called Muse Code, betting it can help the company catch up in a field where it's been playing from behind.
Demis Hassabis to Chair Google DeepMind, Become Alphabet Chief Scientist
Sundar Pichai reshuffled the top of Google's AI operation on Wednesday, moving Demis Hassabis out of his current role and into two new ones.
Meta Adds Persistent Async Agents to Muse AI Coding Tools
Meta released two AI coding tools on Wednesday: Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent now in beta, and Muse Spark 1.2, an update to its Muse Spark model family tuned for software work.
Google AI leaders leave to launch discovery-focused startup
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after more than 25 years to start his own company. Dean, who joined the search giant in 1999 and became a fixture of its AI research operations, will serve as CEO of the new venture, called Discovery Loop.
Kavukcuoglu Takes Over Google DeepMind After Leadership Exits
Google DeepMind is losing its two top executives at once. Demis Hassabis, the lab's CEO, is stepping back from daily operations to become Alphabet's Chief Scientist, a move that will let him focus on what he calls "the big picture." Jeff Dean,...
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