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This article describes techniques for using prompt caching to improve the inference speed and efficiency of open-source large language models when deployed on Databricks' platform. Prompt caching redu

Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China — But during a conversation wi

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use — HO CHI MINH CITY —

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a 500M Series B at a valuation of at least 5B — The Series B round, which ch

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chi

Alison Weissbrot / Adweek: Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for 2.2B in cash — Publicis Groupe

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at 5.3B, and added 40M in ARR in Q2 — Every major A

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a 27M seed at a 200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment — Asia's push into physical AI i

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “existing date commitment”, and “many” models are “eligible to transition” to the Googlebook experience — During The And

World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Politico: Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models — A White House spokesperson sai

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a 107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models — Dedicated inference clo

The AI Engineer World's Fair is a conference event featuring talks on emerging AI research and engineering topics including autoresearch systems, advanced memory architectures, world models, tokenizat

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW — - China's EV pri

Digital security company DigiCert Inc. today introduced a new AI Trust framework to help organizations secure AI systems and their outputs, along with new capabilities to help secure autonomous agents

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) test-time computing have introduced the capability to perform intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning (thinking) before generating answers. While

Axios: Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos — - One source described the Whit

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos — Apple Inc. is planning a major ov

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art

New York Times: SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for 60B or pay 10B for the partnership — The potential acquisition

The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more — Today, I'm talking wit

Abhinav Parmar / Reuters: Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026, a six-year low, as price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% — India's smar

We built a custom technology stack to run fast large language models on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. This post explores the engineering trade-offs and technical optimizations required to make high-per

Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those c

Mindgard Ltd., a leader in artificial intelligence cybersecurity, announced today that it raised 30 million in early funding to scale up its product in response to significant demand across the indust

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners a

Maybe Nvidia ultimately won’t win the entire AI enchilada, even as it reminded everyone this week that it offers everything you need to build AI factories. This week, Advanced Micro Devices also annou

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acet

Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 attempted blackmail in up to 96% of shutdown simulations, tracing the behavior to decades of sci-fi and self-preservation narratives in training data. The company re

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by multipl

Code-switching (CS), the alternation between languages within an utterance, is common in multilingual speech but underrepresented in pretraining corpora. Increasing CS coverage requires finding releva

I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a litt

TypeSafe’s Jev classifies, scores, and routes without generating text — up to hundreds of times cheaper than an LLM judge. What that changes for evals, confidence routing, and application architecture

Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy p

As Nvidia Corp. announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face Inc. for $12.93 billion — one of the largest acquisitions in the company’s history — Chief Executive Jensen Huang prom

Engima Ltd., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots, launched today with 71 million in funding. Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital jointly led the seed round with participation from

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is pushing harder than ever to grab even more market share from Nvidia Corp. in the artificial intelligence chip industry. At its Advancing AI 2026 event today in San Franc

Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work. This year’s accepted papers reveal a clear direction: open

In this post, we introduce Reverse Direct Preference Optimization (rDPO), the novel unlearning technique behind Amazon Nova Customizable Content Moderation Settings (CCMS), and show how it reduces ove

Healthcare AI is moving out of the pilot phase and into production environments, where the gap between a compelling demo and a clinically trustworthy output has never been more consequential. As AI ag

Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary framework for the federal government to evaluate risks posed by advanced AI systems before release and encouraging companies t

This newsletter issue discusses three key topics in AI development and safety: the challenges involved in overseeing and controlling advanced AI systems, empirical findings about how protein folding A

Artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding at a nearly 4 billion valuation. Radical Ventures led the round with participation from Nvidi

Dedicated inference cloud startup Deepinfra Inc. is looking to expand its global capacity after raising 107 million in a Series B round of funding led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, who was one of G