Startups & Funding
After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M
AI chip startup Groq is raising $650 million in internal funding while pivoting from hardware manufacturing to focus on...
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Healthcare AIOpenAI
OpenAI is giving away its life sciences AI model to help governments prepare for the next pandemic
OpenAI is offering its life sciences AI model GPT-Rosalind for free through the new Rosalind Biodefense program to help...
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Ethics & Regulation
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about AI's impact on truth and reality faced criticism for using AI-generated quotes without disclosure, raising...
Wired AI
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
Scaling safe enterprise AI with OpenAI governance frameworks
OpenAI has released its Frontier Governance Framework (FGF) to help enterprise leaders safely and compliantly deploy AI...
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AI Agents
Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Scott Wu from Cognition, maker of Devin AI coding agent, clarifies that the tool is designed to augment rather than...
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AI Agents
Prompt: Robinhood Wants AI Agents to Trade, Spend on Your Behalf
Robinhood is introducing AI agent tools that can autonomously execute trading and financial transactions on behalf of...
AI Business
LLMAnthropic
Anthropic Opus 4.8 Shows the AI Lab is Paying Attention to Customers
Anthropic has released Opus 4.8, a model designed to serve enterprise customers with complex workflows. The model...
AI Business
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
The Vatican, represented by Pope Leo XIV, has placed a representative inside Anthropic to influence the company's...
Wired AI
AI Agents
Does your CEO have AI psychosis? Aaron Levie thinks most of them do.
Box founder Aaron Levie criticizes CEO decision-making regarding AI, arguing that executives making AI replacement...
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AI AgentsDeepSeek
New review paper argues code is how AI agents think and act, not just what they produce
A review paper argues that the software layer (tools, memory, testing, permissions) around language models, not the...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy
Kiwibit has developed an AI-powered smart bird feeder that uses artificial intelligence to identify bird species and...
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Startups & Funding
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
South Korean chip startup XCENA raised $135M in funding, betting that AI's primary bottleneck is memory rather than...
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Healthcare AIOpenAI
Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses
Boston Children's Hospital has implemented OpenAI technology to improve patient diagnoses and operational efficiency....
OpenAI Blog
Coding Co-pilotOpenAI
How Braintrust turns customer requests into code with Codex
Braintrust engineers leverage OpenAI's Codex with GPT-5.5 to accelerate code generation and experimentation workflows....
OpenAI Blog
Startups & Funding
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services to generate training data for robot development. The...
The Verge AI
LLMAnthropic
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded version of Claude Opus 4.7 with improvements in coding, agent work,...
AI News
AI Agents
Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant is a conversational AI agent designed to automate design tasks while maintaining user...
The Verge AI
Ethics & Regulation
Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
Amazon discontinued its internal AI leaderboard system after employees gamed it by completing meaningless AI tasks to...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication
UC Berkeley's UCCL team has released mKernel, a fused kernel library that combines intra-node NVLink communication,...
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