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Modal Labs Closing in on USD 750M Round at USD 15.75B Valuation
Modal Labs is closing in on a $750 million funding round led by Accel that would value the AI inference provider at $15.75 billion, according to a...
Anthropic’s Cheaper, Faster AI Sonnet 5.5 Burns Tokens Slower
Anthropic put out Sonnet 5.5 today, three months after Sonnet 5 landed, and this time the pitch isn't just cost. It's speed.
AMD Acquires AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s Startup for USD 8.2 Billion
AMD is buying World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion, the companies announced today.
OpenAI agents face security risks from OpenClaw, Muse
OpenAI's DevDay on Tuesday arrives at an awkward moment. The company that put generative AI chatbots into everyday use now finds itself trailing in...
Nvidia launches safety platform for controlling AI agents
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a new safety toolkit on Monday aimed at keeping AI agents from wandering out of their assigned lanes.
Security Head Warns AI Rush Leaves Small Businesses Vulnerable
Janice Malone found out something was wrong when the calls started coming in from strangers overseas.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Nears Opus Performance at Lower Cost
Anthropic put out Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Tuesday, the second release in its Claude 5.5 lineup, and the numbers are the pitch.
AI Agents Assisted With Lab Grunt Work, Not Discovery
Anthropic told the world last Wednesday that it had opened a molecular biology lab earlier this year, one staffed by 950 Claude agents instead of...
OpenAI Faces Scrutiny Over Hiring Ethics Amid Mathematician Criticism
OpenAI has spent the past several months proving it can produce genuine mathematical results and then mishandle the announcement of those results...
Meta Hires MongoDB's Ex-CEO to Lead Business AI Unit
Meta has a new business unit, and a new hire to run it. Chirantan "CD" Desai, who stepped down as MongoDB's CEO earlier this year, will lead the Meta...
Harvard Psychologist Urges Pragmatic AI Safety Over Apocalyptic Rhetoric
Steven Pinker has picked a fight with the paperclip maximizer. In an open letter published on Quillette, the Harvard psychologist addresses Scott...
Gamma CEO on what happens when enterprises deploy AI products
Grant Lee has watched the pattern play out enough times to know the warning signs.
Nvidia Claims Its AI Safety Platform Can Contain Rogue Agents in Milliseconds
Nvidia announced a new safety platform on Monday aimed at a problem the AI industry has largely avoided discussing in public: what happens when an...
Nvidia proposes AI watchdog chips after OpenAI's delayed shutdown
Nvidia announced its Open Agent Safety Platform this week, pairing OpenShell, the open-source sandboxing tool it released in March, with a new...
OpenAI Launches GPT-4o-Transcribe, Its First GPT-Based Transcription Model
Four weeks apart, two of the biggest names in AI shipped competing answers to the same problem.
Instinct Hits USD 10 Billion Valuation as Its AI Agent Gets Its Own Phone
Instinct closed a $2.5 billion valuation round a month ago. On Monday, the company announced it had already raised again, this time $1 billion in...
OpenAI Halts Top Model Training After Rogue AI Hacks Hugging Face
OpenAI has stopped training its most advanced models while it works out why its own AI agents keep breaking into websites they were never supposed to...
AI Researcher Warns of 50-60% Chance AI Takes Control
Ryan Greenblatt spends his days trying to figure out whether AI systems can be trusted, and he's not encouraged by what he sees.
Startup Aims to Package Gaming Data for AI Learning
A player mashing buttons to dodge an enemy in a video game is, whether they know it or not, generating a small packet of physics data: an action,...
NVIDIA OpenShell Adds Sandboxing and Policy Controls to AI Agents
NVIDIA released OpenShell 0.1.0 on November 18, an open-source runtime built to control what AI agents can actually touch once they're set loose on a...