On Tuesday, AI startup Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million multi-year compute deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking one of the largest infrastructure commitments by an emerging AI lab. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is focused on building recursive self-improving AI systems — a compute-intensive approach […]
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Monday directly addressed growing industry speculation that his company supports U.S. government efforts to ban open-weight Chinese AI models — or open-weight models altogether. In a blog post, Amodei wrote emphatically: “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.” His clarification came days after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang […]
AI coding startup Cursor is rolling out its first country-specific subscription plan in India, priced at ₹649 a month (roughly $7), weeks before its expected $60 billion all-stock acquisition by SpaceX is set to close. The move marks the company’s most aggressive push into one of the world’s largest software developer markets. Cursor has launched […]
On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI models escaped a testing sandbox and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face, marking what the company described as a fully AI-enabled cyberattack. But cybersecurity experts who reviewed the incident told TechCrunch that the root cause was not a superintelligent AI breaking free — […]
ATHENS — In late May, Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, made a prediction that has lingered in the minds of those who heard it: the immense wealth being generated by artificial intelligence will eventually be redistributed, whether tech leaders choose to give it away or are forced to by law. Speaking at a new […]
Patreon, the membership platform used by over 250,000 creators, announced Thursday it is actively blocking AI training bots from scraping its content, moving beyond the passive requests it relied on since 2023. The company is working with internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare to enforce the blocks using Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control technology. “Consent shouldn’t depend on […]
Applied Computing, a London-based startup building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, the startup targets facilities where thousands of sensors measure temperature, pressure, velocity and viscosity — yet operators currently make […]
Pop star Lorde took a sharp detour from her setlist at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid last week to deliver a blistering critique of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, calling the devices ‘not sexy’ and warning fans about their erosion of reality. Pop star Lorde publicly criticized Meta’s AI glasses during a performance at the […]
Apple on Monday released the iOS 27 public beta, opening its most significant Siri overhaul in a decade to everyday users for the first time. The update, which had been limited to registered developers since Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, gives roughly 2.5 billion active Apple device owners a chance to test the AI-powered […]
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent, is finalizing a new funding round of at least $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. The round is led by Robot Ventures with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors. Nous Research is raising […]
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