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Anthropic PBC is privately hoping its upcoming initial public offering will match or even surpass the size of SpaceX Corp.’s record-breaking IPO as it doubles down on its bid to go public ahead of riv

Scaling agentic AI across an enterprise requires patterns that preserve flexibility while avoiding vendor lock-in. In this second post of our multi-agent series, we examine how ML teams operate many a

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud systems — Anthropic PBC pla

Newcomer: Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive 6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a 1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers — EXCLUSIVE TO NEWCOMER: Poolsi

ThreatDown, the business security arm of Malwarebytes Inc., said in new research published today that Kriminal, one of the newest and most popular tools in the criminal artificial intelligence market,

The Information: Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter — Nvidia has discussed

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimiz

NVIDIA’s ALCHEMI Toolkit delivers composable, PyTorch‑native GPU‑accelerated workflows for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling AI coding agents to generate robust simulation code

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday t

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers — Expanded mu

Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC has won an auction to acquire massive volumes of internal business data from the bankrupt airline operator Spirit Airlines Inc. for a hefty 10 million price. A report by Blo

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Alix Coutures / The Information: Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired — Eight

Bloomberg: SpaceX closes its 60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a 60 billion acquisition of artificial in

Yes, there’s an artificial intelligence bubble, no denying that anymore — so the question becomes, “Will it burst, and when?” You’d be forgiven for thinking it could happen soon, given the continuing,

Reuters: Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Fri

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack — OpenAI's rogue agent ha

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

Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Google for a decade, and we’ve dedicated ourselves to help developers by advancing

Graph neural networks are reshaping how enterprises hunt for fraud, moving detection beyond isolated transactions to reveal entire hidden networks of bad actors. As AI adoption accelerates, organizati

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is “small enough” to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers — Meta Platforms I

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, 9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours — Anthropic PBC

Shane Burke / The Information: US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development — Local government re

Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large l

As AI agents gain access to sensitive enterprise systems, AI agent security is becoming increasingly difficult to manage with traditional identity and privilege controls. The shift is driving demand f

Carl Zimmer / New York Times: Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding 16 viable viruses that can infect bacteria but don't threaten humans — Scientis

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents tha

When people think about digital transformation in banking, they often focus on the visible results: mobile apps and new digital services. But there's an invisible infrastructure making all these servi

In today’s retail environment, shoppers expect highly personalized product discovery experiences and conversational assistance that feels genuine, natural, and genuinely helpful. Today, successful pro

The Open Secure AI Alliance today proposed a set of guidelines for reporting cybersecurity incidents involving artificial intelligence agents, one week after the group was formed. The proposal is call

Amazon Bedrock now supports automatic Automated Reasoning policy refinement. The refinement engine diagnoses failing tests and proposes formal-logic fixes for rule issues and language issues, and you

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. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When t

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsim

New York Times: Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the se

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools — Bets

Physical AI is forcing the technology industry to rethink the entire computing stack. Robots, autonomous systems and intelligent devices need economical inference, secure data access and infrastructur

In today’s agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take action across a wide range of tasks. For

Enterprise AI infrastructure providers are turning to multi-tenancy paired with upstream data protection to convert idle GPU capacity into secure, token-metered services that enterprises will actually

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. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

At AMD’s Advancing AI event, Lisa Su called her shot – just like Babe Ruth. The question now is whether AMD has built the engineering machine to hit it. Last week, we argued that AMD’s next reinventio

Fish Audio, an ambitious artificial intelligence startup that began life as a weekend project in its founder’s bedroom, said today it has raised an impressive 52 million in seed funding to try and est

Bloomberg: Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development — More than 1,100 staffers ac

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexit

Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the faste

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. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit — Multiple robo