Model releases, research breakthroughs, and the business of artificial intelligence.
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The Information ·
Airbnb on Thursday shed new light on a secretive AI startup that founder and CEO Brian Chesky controls, saying the company …
Emma Roth / The Verge ·
Like OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet, Perplexity's Teammates can perform an array of tasks while running 24/7.
Joel Khalili / Wired ·
Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data …
Rocket Drew / The Information ·
Scott Wiener, the California politician who led the successful effort to pass AI safety legislation in the state's legislature last year, is headed to Washington.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg ·
Defense tech startup set to acquire Echodyne Corp., which sells radar sensors to government and commercial customers.
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News ·
Dropbox announced Thursday plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark …
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal ·
The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, to run AI models directly in the car, rather than the cloud
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
Audio AI company ElevenLabs on Thursday said users will be able to publish AI-generated music created using its ElevenMusic platform directly on SoundCloud.
New York Times ·
One night in 2007, Dario Amodei regaled a friend who was visiting him at Princeton University with his thoughts on …
Will Knight / Wired ·
"Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors," Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
Bloomberg ·
UK consumers are spending over £1 billion ($1.4 billion) a year on artificial intelligence subscriptions …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·
There's another American victory worth paying attention to today: a new, open weights AI model that its creators claim scores …
Irina Anghel / Bloomberg ·
Artificial intelligence skills are no longer optional for the hundreds of thousands of young Britons seeking their first job …
Cristian Dina / The Next Web ·
Claude, ChatGPT and in-house AI agents can now run business payments through Pliant. The Berlin fintech, past $100M in recurring revenue, will expand in North America.
Valida Pau / The Information ·
Palo Alto Networks is in talks to buy three-year-old Israeli security startup Clutch Security for around $500 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
Charles Rollet / Business Insider ·
Meta is done with fruits.
Reuters ·
Wall Street closed sharply higher on Wednesday as Democrats' sweeping midterm election victory eased political uncertainty …
Bloomberg ·
Alphabet Inc.'s Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise roughly $5 billion in new funds to support its efforts to use artificial intelligence …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·
Apple Inc. is reducing employee budgets for artificial intelligence usage as part of a cost-cutting effort, even as the company seeks …
Murad Hemmadi / Globe and Mail ·
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD-Q said Wednesday that it will pay about US$2.9-billion for Toronto-based semiconductor startup Taalas Inc. …
Madison Mills / Axios ·
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously …
Isaac Kasahara / Pangram ·
State-of-the-art AI image and video detection with our latest Pangram Image models. … A few months ago, we released Pangram Image as a research preview.
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer ·
America is waking up to an astonishing Democratic sweep. As I write, Dems may end up with 56 Senate seats and as many as 261 House seats
Ben Gartside / Wired ·
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country's slow rate of adoption
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE ·
Data security startup Sentra Inc. today revealed it has raised $150 million in new funding to expand its platform for controlling …
Reuters ·
Nooks has secured a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to finance the company's sales and marketing push …
Reuters ·
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) has expanded employee buyout offers to several countries this year as it looks to rein …
Martha Muir / Financial Times ·
Why America is struggling to power the AI boom. The US is building electricity lines at a quarter the rate of a decade ago It took 13 years …
Neil Kakkar / The Pragmatic Engineer ·
Before we start: I'm in San Francisco this week and there are a few remaining spots for these live events (registration required):
Reuters ·
After years of building humanoid robots capable of running, dancing and performing backflips, Chinese companies are pouring resources into a different challenge …
Financial Times ·
Intervention comes amid growing tension for US AI infrastructure groups doing business with Chinese tech giants.
Bloomberg ·
Global stock markets erased a selloff sparked by a Democratic sweep of the US Congress, as uncertainty surrounding the midterms faded …
Xavier Martinez / Wall Street Journal ·
No drug designed by artificial intelligence has won FDA clearance, and pharma leaders say biology is the obstacle
Katie Drummond / Wired ·
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City's mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes ·
Traversal has raised $120 million in funding to help companies like American Express and Pepsi troubleshoot site outages.
Tobias Mann / The Register ·
Revolut says that in less than a year it's managed to slash its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted models …
Anthropic ·
Roy Rinberg (Anthropic), Alex Allain (Anthropic); Alessandro Chiesa (EPFL, StarkWare), Miranda Christ (MIT, RESI), Rahul Dalal …
Samantha Subin / CNBC ·
CrowdStrike is betting that it has a solution to rogue artificial intelligence.
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times ·
OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday's elections from efforts to undermine democracy.
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg ·
Fal, an AI inference startup that hosts image, video and audio models for creators and developers, has doubled its valuation to $16 billion in a new round of funding.
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post ·
Employment contracts deter staff from warning the public about AI risks, current workers said.
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal ·
The deals come as companies deploy AI agents faster than some security teams can establish controls
Bloomberg ·
China plans to roll out a broad set of standards governing the AI safety from development through deployment …
Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·
Head of National Cyber Security Centre set to warn security defences, particularly for critical infrastructure, are inadequate
David Freedlander / New York Magazine ·
In early November, in that exceedingly brief window between the midterm election and presidential-primary season …
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC ·
Brookfield is targeting a massive artificial intelligence data center in the north of England, as Europe scrambles to develop infrastructure …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap …
Aditi Bharade / Business Insider ·
Companies went all in on AI this year, and are now reckoning with heavy bills. One startup wants to get under the hood and figure out which ones are worth it.
The Information ·
Salesforce extended its recent shopping spree, announcing on Monday plans to acquire Cresta, a nine-year-old provider of AI-powered contact center automation software.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch ·
Whether developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, or built on open-source alternatives, current AI models share a critical limitation …
Rikiya Takehi ·
TL;DR … If you were asked to handcraft a neural network that plays Go, what would you do? If you were handed raw neural network weights …
Liam Proven / The Register ·
One in ten employees at SUSE are facing the chop due to "automation and AI," according to a memo dispatched by management …
John Werner / Forbes ·
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … When you look at some of what robotics companies are doing today …
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine ·
Charles Porch is rich, super-connected, and tasked with getting celebrities (and everyone else) to not hate AI so much.
Scott Alexander / LessWrong ·
The AI Futures Project[1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories:
Rivka Galchen / New Yorker ·
A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.
Emmy Martin / New York Times ·
San Francisco's A.I. boom has drawn a wave of young ambitious people who are now reshaping the city's dating life.Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times
Bloomberg ·
Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s shares fell by their most in three months after the Japanese memory maker's cautious outlook inflamed concerns …
Meir Orbach / CTech ·
The platform turns company procedures into short, branded videos delivered through WhatsApp, Teams and other familiar channels.