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Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than 1 billion. The Ser

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed six new “concerning” incidents involving artificial intelligence agents behaving badly again. The agents made up data, moved files onto the public internet without per

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Choosing the right vector store for your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG application affects performance and cost. This post compares Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvect

Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as 700M at a 3.7B valuation — Researchers leaving Big

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training — Elon Musk's Sp

Pew Research Center: Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses — For the first tim

Today’s LLMs still write like typewriters: one token at a time. This sequential process creates a hard inference bottleneck. We're introducing Uno, a diffusion-augmented LLM that delivers autoregressi

Icelandic audio startup Treble Technologies ehf today announced that it has raised 18 million in funding. Paladin Capital Group led the Series-A2 round. It was joined by returning backers KOMPAS VC, F

AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) merges AI and machine learning with comprehensive observability to automate event correlation, root‑cause analysis, anomaly detection, incident respon

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman,

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a 1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least 150M — In 2025, Mark McQuade took a

Customer relationship management vendor HubSpot Inc. is using its annual Unbound conference in Boston today to unveil what it calls its most significant product release in years: a rebuilt CRM platfor

Hugging Face CEO @ClementDelangue, whose company was the victim of an AI-led cyberattack, said existing cyber laws are likely sufficient to govern advanced AI. “I’m not even sure that we need to reinv

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