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Jack & Jill, operated by Tinker Tailor Talent Ltd., a hiring platform powered by conversational generative artificial intelligence, said Tuesday it has raised 40 million in early funding to build a jo

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers — OpenAI said on

Sri Muppidi / New York Times: Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a 1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least 1.5T — The funding round

Thomas Claburn / The Register: TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly — ‘Jev’ d

TypeSafe AI Inc., a startup founded by a former OpenAI Group PBC researcher who helped develop ChatGPT, emerged yesterday with 40 million in seed funding and a model designed to put artificial intelli

New York Times: At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs — At an event in Washington

New York Times: Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying — For years, Democrats and

Runtime security startup Eve Security Inc. wants to help stop dangerous artificial intelligence agents in their tracks after raising 4.5 million in funding today. The round, which was led by Run Ventu

Grok @Bot summary Grok Bot Summary of Elon Musk’s All-In Summit Interview Today Opening bit - Joke cold open: “We’re all going to die.” Death rate still 100%. - Then straight into “what happened in th

The post explains how site owners can keep their content visible in search engines while blocking its use for AI training datasets. It details technical approaches—such as specific robots.txt rules, m

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a 180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a 1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to 335M+ — The artifi

Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a 50 million early-stage funding round to ma

@openrouter: OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent mo

Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through six practical prompt caching scenarios u

Italian cybersecurity startup Exein SpA today announced that it has raised 270 million at a valuation of 1.7 billion to build security for robots, vehicles and other machines that run artificial intel

Salesforce Inc. unveiled AIforce today during its Dreamforce user conference, a new artificial intelligence interface layer that brings the power of the company’s platform to where people use AI agent

So @deepseek_ai v4.1 Flash I estimate cost $10m to train, 100x less than GPT-6 Astra. It also costs 100x less to run and scores about the same on everyday design and other benchmarks What's the bull c

Claire Moses / New York Times: The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good” — Bill G

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed — Former Open

Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to

Elon Musk tweeted that a welfare state combined with free immigration would inevitably bankrupt countries, arguing that AI and robotics are the only way to achieve universal high income worldwide. The

Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Databricks and Amazon Quick that reconcile

C/C++ provide direct hardware and memory control with near-zero overhead, delivering the raw speed needed for extreme performance work like AI training stacks. Higher-level languages add layers that c

Bloomberg: China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one” — China criticized calls from l

The next phase of contact center artificial intelligence will be measured less by how many interactions machines handle and more by whether customers actually get their problems resolved. That was one

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans — Humans are re

One point that people aren't discussing re @DarioAmodei's essay. In 2016, DeepMind brought in third-party evaluators to monitor its AI health work. The result was messy. It's a cautionary tale. Gift l

Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks — When I saw

OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than 300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has co

Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan S

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two b

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at 300M+; it was valued at ~100M last year — Glass Imaging, value

MS NOW: Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request — Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief

Pick the right generative AI customization approach on AWS with an 8-step decision framework, from prompt engineering and RAG to fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and Amazon Nova Forge. Start simpl

This is so depressing for a variety of reasons First and only time UK had the top frontier model China started climbing a few months later https://stability.ai/news-updates/stable-beluga-large-instruc

Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: Trump slams Dario Amodei, saying “the only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” — Preside

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised 130M at a near-1B valuation — Buildots, a

David Sacks / @davidsacks: Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework — Dario has w

🚨BREAKING: China's http://Z.AI has raised $5 billion. The interesting part is where the money is going: 60% of the net proceeds will fund next-generation GLM models and what http://Z.AI calls its 'Ful

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the

Day 3 dilemma Another 3-5,000 word blog on something interesting or should I strip it back to 800-1,000 words for wider readership? Should I discuss the equations of AI and get a bit technical or keep

Does anyone have any idea how this could vaguely be possible given the nature of and various routes to RSI? I am not being facetious I genuinely don’t know how this could be constructed or implemented

Want to help me with a tiny ChatGPT experiment? I stumbled onto something interesting after seeing how differently ChatGPT users got responses to the exact same underspecified prompt, and now I’m curi

I’ll be honest it feels like a month since this happened The takeoff is a heck of a thing We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the fro

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI — Anthropic, OpenAI and Goo

Janice Huang / Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to support its OpenAI investment, securing 11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its 10B target — SoftBank Group Corp.