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Tripo AI, a developer of interactive 3D foundation models and world models, said today it has closed on a hefty 150 million Series A3 funding round to scale up its platform in the intelligent manufact

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropi

Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful ne

Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agenci

Kevin Schaul / Washington Post: An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts — Excerp

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days — Claude

Grace Kay / The Information: Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off — SpaceX's

Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models. The post Announcing Found

Learn a practical model lifecycle for Microsoft Foundry: select the right model, evaluate quality, optimize cost, operate safely, and improve as production needs change. The post A Developer’s Guide t

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a 'voluntary framework' for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released 'to promot

Jake Angelo / Fortune: AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded no crimes, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 — Imagine a world

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a 40M Series A at a 200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona — Gray Swan works

MagenticLite is an agentic system for small models that works across the browser and local file system in a single workflow. It combines specialized models and orchestration to support efficient agent

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Depart

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common

IBM Granite 4.1 is a family of foundation models released by IBM Research designed for enterprise AI applications. The models likely offer improvements in performance, efficiency, and capabilities com

In this post, we'll explore how multimodal BioFMs work, showcase real-world applications in drug discovery and clinical development, and contextualize how AWS enables organizations to build and deploy

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When De

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Pharma artificial intelligence startup Helical Ltd. announced today that it has raised 10 million in new funding to expand its virtual AI lab platform, which turns biological foundation models into re

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing

Flo Health leveraged Databricks AI Runtime to create open‑source language models that prioritize both safety and practical utility. By integrating Databricks’ scalable training infrastructure with rob

Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across thei

As open-weight models close in on the performance of proprietary frontier systems, enterprises are gaining a credible way to run generative AI on hardware they own. That shift puts the data already si

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K — AI model pla

When language models reason in chain-of-thought or exchange free-text intermediates, they serialize structured information into natural language. How much tree-structured compositional content survive

Tom Wilson / Financial Times: Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security

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

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more — Robot Models, Silicon & DR

Big-data company Cloudera Inc. is pushing to become the go-to partner for enterprise-grade sovereign artificial intelligence workloads after announcing a massive, nine-figure strategic partnership wit

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research startup Resect AI announced Thursday it has raised 25 million in early funding to build an accountability layer for enterprise AI by capturing and reduci

Bloomberg: Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries — Benchmarker Vals AI finds t

New York Times: Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as 10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant

Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised 43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atrei

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks — SAN FRANC

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a 40M Series A led by a16z at a 400M valuation — - Vals AI r

@alibaba_qwen: Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding — We promised open weights

NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard is a routing platform that directs AI agent workloads to the most suitable specialized or frontier model for each step of a task, balancing performance, cost, and latency. It of

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

Wired: OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations — Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anth

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses — The announcement comes after OpenAI said earlier this week

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —Ja

Enterprises racing to deploy AI at scale are discovering that the biggest constraint isn’t model capability anymore — it’s control. As agentic AI moves from experimentation into core business processe

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly transitioning away from using OpenAI Group PBC’s and Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models in favor of its own — increasingly leaning on the new Mi

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to purely autoregressive language models because they can decode multiple tokens in parallel. However, state-of-the-art

In this post, you'll learn how fine-tuning Amazon Nova models using Amazon SageMaker AI addresses these specific issues by teaching the models to recognize your exact data patterns, distinguish betwee