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David Silver update. Ineffable Intelligence has raised the largest ever European seed round and is now valued at $5.1 billion. Mr Silver said in a statement 'Our mission is to make first contact with

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes

Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman begins today Remember, an OpenAi whistleblower was murdered Tucker Carlson revealed that OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s mother has crime scene photos that sh

Even former OpenAI employees didn’t want Sam Altman converting OpenAI from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business. “OpenAI may one day build technology that could get us all killed,” said Nisan

Excellent writeup from @willknight who has been following David's work for decades. Also highly recommend @scmallaby's book The Infinity Machine which profiles David's achievements at @GoogleDeepMind

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Northrop Grumman confirmed corrosion in both the HALO and I-HAB modules of NASA's Lunar Gateway space station, citing a 'manufacturing irregularity.' The company attributed the issue to the French-Ita

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot u

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizer

Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing 'a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,' with results pulling in things like

This post humorously comments on the naming strategy of Ineffable Intelligence, suggesting that their company name is more distinctive and clever than the numerous startups using 'superintelligence' i

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The

Databricks discusses how leading technology companies are using Lakebase to eliminate 'builder's tax'—the overhead and complexity costs associated with building and maintaining data infrastructure. Th

Bloomberg: How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods n

I hear so often: “the right must unite”. The rally on 16 May is not just an opportunity for politicians to unite but also for us to meet our boss - the British people. If we, servants of the people, w

I really enjoyed reading the book “Infinity Machine”. While it’s supposed to be a biography of Demis Hassabis, all the major characters of the AI industry today were there in the beginning. It’s fasci

I don't have specific information about the details of this Reddit discussion. This likely covers speculation about the potential financial consequences and wealth implications for OpenAI executives l

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Will Knight / Wired: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a 1.1B seed at a 5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new

This post documents a user's request to ChatGPT to generate a visualization or description of Krakatoa island as it existed before its catastrophic 1883 eruption, specifically showing the three volcan

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On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors al

@JustJake @sovrgnmind @pmarca Good convo with Grok about all of this. I cited Chesterton's Fence and Grok cited the Therac-25 incident. While at SGI, a friend and I were sent to NZ and Oz to diagnose

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Ka

KITT is real Any new Tesla can do this FSD drove my wife and I all the way from San Diego to Palm Springs for the weekend. Today it gave us an architectural tour powered by @grok . It picked the homes

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 — Se

Long list Scam Altman has a incredible track record for being a con artist I don't think anyone has a 'former ally turned enemy' list this big with directly with people he worked with A massive new 18

Looking forward to the work coming out of @IneffableLabs 🇬🇧 Largest EU/UK raise ever 😮 Beat the previous UK largest seed raise (101m Stability AI!) by 999m 🚀 We have seen amazing things on our self-le

Legacy, launched in 2023, was a blockchain business simulator that raised $54 million via a virtual 'land sale' in 2021 , but tanked almost immediately after launching . Molyneux later stated that fun

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 — Meta Platf

OpenAI: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-t

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Micros

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work — “W

All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi

🚨 NEWS: Emirates upgrades its iconic A380 with Starlink high-speed Wi-Fi, delivering “better-than-home” internet at 40,000 feet. • Up to 3 Starlink antennas on each A380 for massive speed boost • Inte

Scientists are concerned about the upcoming El Niño because it's developing against the backdrop of already-elevated global temperatures from climate change, which could create a 'perfect storm' of cl

A widely-downloaded open source package called element-data was compromised after attackers exploited a vulnerability in developer account workflows, gaining access to signing keys and releasing a mal

OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp. have revised several sections of the contract that governs their technology partnership. The update, which was announced today, is at least the third that the comp

OpenAi bait-and-switched Elon, pretending to a non-profit mission to save humanity until it pocketed his donations. Elon should win. BREAKING: Elon Musk and OpenAI trial officially set to begin today

Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP through 2032, but Microsoft's license is now non-exclusive, allowing OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider . Microsoft will stop

Ineffable Intelligence is building a superlearner—an AI system that discovers knowledge through its own experience rather than human data, using reinforcement learning without pre-training. The compan

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M — Quantum

Quantum Art Ltd., a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput, said today it has extended its Series A funding round to 140 million following a surge of interest from inv

Paresh Dave / Wired: San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers — A recent attack on