AI
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusabl…
How Esports World Cup moved from Saudi Arabia to Paris in 8 weeks
The Esports World Cup (EWC) has relocated from its usual home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Paris due to safety concerns over the conflict between the USA and Iran. Organizers had ju…
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML, endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released a free product called ZML/LLMD, an LLM inference server designed to speed up inference across a vari…
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in the first close of its Series F round, led by General Atlantic, with more investors expected …
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
Meta has unveiled its new AI image generator, Muse Image, developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. The feature, internally code-named Mango, will be available for free through the…
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
A provocative new theory from Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang suggests that the relationship between frontier AI models and open source alternatives is not one of direct competition, but r…
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft has reportedly begun deploying a cost-savings strategy by relying less on software from OpenAI and Anthropic and instead using its own in-house MAI models for programs li…
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months. The bug caused harmless images—including spreadshe…
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
Anthropic has expanded its Claude Cowork agent, previously a desktop-only app, to web and mobile platforms for Max subscribers. The expansion allows users to start tasks on their d…
Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, both with extensive tech backgrounds, have launched Savi Security, a startup aimed at protecting consumers from AI-generated scams delivered via…
The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine
Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in wha…
The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
Researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig reported the first known case of "agentic ransomware," an extortion operation called JadePuffer, in which an AI agent handled the technica…