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Chris Metinko / Axios: Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised 60M, including a 40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~90M — Orkes, which helps compani
Connor Stringer / Telegraph: Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The
Reuters: Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations — Singapore is transforming from Eas
Alexandra Alper / Reuters: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia has yet to sell H200 chips to Chinese companies and that the Chinese government has not approved such purchases — Nvidia's (
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an 80M Series C at a 955M valuation — Medtech softw
Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight — The promises
CBS News: A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, fin
Yes! I think there is too much 'we're so early' self-congratulation here. Many senior leaders in companies are smart, motivated, and understand a lot about their business. Many are also technically ad
Joe Brock / Reuters: Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks — Joe Lonsdale, an inv
The wave of criminal actions from OpenAI models/agents show that their base model is depraved. AI companies must overhaul how they build AI models. Society cannot tolerate a super smart thing that at
In the past, markets would flush out bullsh!t companies by requiring them to, eventually, be profitable. What’s annoying about OpenAI and Anthropic is their evasion of that mechanism. Too big to fail,
Owen Walker / Financial Times: AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthrop
this could be good but I also hope this isn’t a play to lock out smaller AI companies. Chris Lehane said in a press conference this morning that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have been working together
Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial
Chris Metinko / Axios: London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a 40M Series A, after raising 20M in 2025 — Jack & Jill, a Lon
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver o
A brilliant suggestion by @GaryMarcus because, in the end, companies are offering AI as a product. It can be recalled or its deployment paused; its manufacturers can be held to account for its failure
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes dist
👇 All this Doom talk is a distraction from the fact that the big frontier AI companies (especially OpenAI) aren’t doing security competently. As an email I just got from longtime security engineer @Ni
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China — Anthropic says Deep
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with 10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model — Z.ai
i’m seeing SO many US companies shift away from frontier models to open source in the last 4 weeks. cost and privacy are big factors but more so people are realising fine-tuning and training their own
My conversation with @ericvishria of Benchmark. Eric has spent a decade investing across software and hardware, backing companies like Fireworks, Sierra, Sunday Robotics, and Cerebras. This one is abo
Julian Hast / Bloomberg: OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hir
People continue to turn to outside AI education resources. Companies just aren't providing enough. I'm running a free AI Agent Workshop in a week with @mcuban for absolute beginners. 10,000+ people ha
Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier
Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation co
You patch security holes by intentionally finding them. If the models refuse to do it, how can companies protect themselves against rogue AIs, whether they are Chinese or OpenAI/Anthropic themselves?
Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake — The value of Alph
Elon Musk is not merely building companies He is building the infrastructure humanity needs to move entire civilization forward • SpaceX — making life multiplanetary • Tesla — accelerating sustainable
UBS says 60% of companies now watching AI budgets are moving to cheaper models and open-source Chinese models The pressure is coming from extreme bills, including users spending up to $35K/month, team
Beacon Software Inc., a startup that buys and operates software businesses, has raised 225 million in a Series C funding. The company stated in its announcement of the deal today that HarbourVest and
Open weight models running on open source harnesses solve this problem. One of these days, American companies will wake up to the same solution we pioneered decades ago that Chinese teams are now runn
Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds 2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a 1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy — OpenAI Chief Exe
Distillation is largely an industry standard and not just something done by Chinese labs targeting OpenAI/Anthropic. Many American companies also distill Chinese (open) models. LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Open
The Economist: Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete — It wasn't long after blue j
This post likely identifies and discusses 15 technology companies that are considered to have exceptional concentrations of talented employees, based on analysis or data from Paraform Talent. The list
Hilbert AI Co., a provider of analytics software for business-to-consumer brands, today announced that it has closed a 28 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Companies gather data about
Sure does look like @GavinSBaker is “suggesting that public companies are materially inflating their remaining performance obligations”. yet another way the Ai industry is trying to con retail investo
Hot take: evals are the #1 thing keeping companies from becoming AI-native. If you want to understand evals, read this post & then the accompanying guide. Tweaking prompts and trying a few inputs by h
So much reporting on the Claude or OpenAI usage of the same handful of technology companies with competing products & huge cloud infrastructure of their own. There are many, many more firms out there
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence — Nvidia'
Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds — World's largest listed c
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is “competition”; Scott Bessent described it as “theft” in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies — Watch CNBC's ful
1. fully agree w @JeffLadish that AI companies aren’t ready to handle superintelligent AI. 2. OpenAI hasn’t even handled the current breed of agents (far from superintelligent) well. 3. the US governm
Cigarette companies approach Marlboro Man to create internal standards (to avoid the imposition of government standards). Andddd we're back to it. The new standards body Google, OpenAI & Anthropic are
It may be that people also feel safer giving their personal data to Meta (since they already use it) than to other AI companies. If you do decide to try out Muse, a reminder that you can turn off trai
Data security company Cohesity Inc. today introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience at its Catalyst conference. The new Cohesity Data Cloud capability backs up the memory and configuration of enterprise ar
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control — C
Reuters: The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns — The U.S. government on Tuesday
We are not in the AGI era. We have incompetent companies creating security problems because they are not properly sandboxing environments, and are not even attempting to monitor, observe, or measure t
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times — Microsoft was
Important points to consider about the risks of today’s AI. Only solution I see is to hold companies liable for the damage they cause, just like in any other industry. Is the only way to ensure they t
Open models are for everyone and how AI reaches everyone. 18M developers. 3M models. 200K companies building on @huggingface. @Dell has been partnered with Hugging Face for years. Now with @nvidia's b
Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a 27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a 100M+ valuation — T
Most companies manage their org chart, their product line, their brand guidelines, their operations manual. Each as a separate document. Each updated on its own cadence. Each a snapshot of a different
Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, A
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia — Alphabet Inc.'
Big Tech's reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic for growth is systemically pervasive. Both companies are massively unprofitable — and much of what they spend is Big Tech's own money, counted right back as
Sam Sabin / Axios: The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security