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Capital flows signal where the market expects the next advantage, and often precede pricing and capacity changes.
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? A search agent has a fetch tool. If the gold labels sit in a public dataset, the agent can download them mid-evaluation and skip…
We're excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. In this evaluation of 13 providers, AWS received the highest score in the Strategy category.
Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models. Cross-investments between AI companies and hyperscalers could trigger a c…
Article URL: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/31/apple-is-suddenly-an-ai-infrastructure-stock-as-openai-buys-macs-by-the-tens-of-thousands/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511824 Points: 39 #…
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state…
Anthropic is effectively cutting Claude Code's weekly usage limits by 17 percent. A temporary 50 percent boost expires on September 14 and will be replaced by a permanent 25 percent increase. Anthropic promises more con…
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
OpenAI is cutting off the AI coding tool Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company, citing Elon Musk's track record of breaking contracts. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell downplays the move, saying OpenAI models account…
There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from seeing the test questions and keep evaluat…
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Anthropic has struck a deal worth around 45 billion dollars with British cloud startup Nscale, Bloomberg reports. The article Anthropic locks in 45-billion-dollar compute deal with Nscale ahead of IPO appeared first on…
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-source model with 320 billion parameters that lands just three points behind the larger GLM-5.3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, at a seventh of the cost. What's notable…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations decouples agent evaluation from the framework you build on. As long as your agent emits OpenTelemetry telemetry, the service can score it, whether you use LangGraph, LlamaIndex, the…
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-heres-how-it-imploded-2026-08-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446722 Points: 46 # Com…
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creati…
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is investigating OpenAI over what he calls an "AI lab leak." The probe follows the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI agent broke out of a test environment and gaine…
Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last mon…
According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries finan…
When asked about unplanned pregnancies, AI chatbots regularly link to anti-abortion groups without disclosing their stance. In an AlgorithmWatch investigation of 270 responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude, the…
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/-anthropic-ipo-filing-will-show-ai-backlash-as-risk-sources-say.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401229 Points: 37 # Comments: 80
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Depar…
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work ar…
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
In a letter to investors, Stripe declares January 1 the "beginning of the singularity" and uses that as a reason to stay private. Not that it needs one: revenue grew 41 percent in the first half of the year, and the com…
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/open-ai-ipo-timing-2027-friar.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366252 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that s…
Opinion: Comcast's new motion detection technology could benefit your home, but it also raises privacy concerns. The details are in the fine print.
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had…
An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rhetoric to buy himself…
Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-preparedness-team-disbanded-ipo-streamlining Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342823 Points: 31 # Comments: 14
OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686 Points: 220 # Comments: 116
Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/08/14/who-is-cami-clark-anthropic-ceos-wife-asked-epstein-to-invest-in-porn-business/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315059 Points: 35 #…
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/open-ai-ipo-red-flag.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311379 Points: 26 # Comments: 3
Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks a…
The Dell XPS 13 flaunts build quality rarely seen at this price point, but not without trade-offs.
Article URL: https://unric.org/en/ais-environmental-costs-threaten-water-land-and-climate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290062 Points: 58 # Comments: 57
Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going up at the same time, with cache hits jumping to six times their…
Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives.
Build a custom LLM post-training pipeline using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework. This comprehensive guide walks through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and Reinforcement Learning wi…
Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini eve…
Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every…
Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights model with just 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index despite being four times smaller. At nearly 670 tokens per se…
Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-500-billion-wall-street-ai-infrastructure-funding-package Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248477 Points: 18 # Comments: 5
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/08/10/torsten-slok-ai-profit-margins-capex-oracle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243628 Points: 24 # Comments: 7
Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face.…
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. The article OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT appeared fir…
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?
Founder Ahmed Beshry describes the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.”
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to The New York Times. The…
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per prompt, that's roughly 600 times more than a typical AI chat. His da…
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second pe…
TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that automatically investigates production errors in real time, reducing root-…
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorit…
The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
<p><strong><a href="https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/">Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models</a></strong></p> And <em>another one</em>. I had to create a <a…
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
Privatize the profit, socialize the losses? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some…
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare, breakthrough scientific discov…
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175248 Points: 51 # Comments: 7
OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
Google is working with Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, and Morgan Stanley on a multibillion-dollar financing structure that supplies Anthropic with AI chips and data centers while keeping most of the risk off Google's bal…
Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across tasks such as OCR, counting, localization, context…
With 3.5 billion active users to protect, Google is relying on Gemini to find Chrome security bugs fast - and before attackers do.
Article URL: https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the-reporters-at-this-news-site-are-ai-bots.-openai%E2%80%99s-super-pac-appears-to-be-using-it-to-advance-its-political-agenda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to the Hugging Face hack…
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/building-abundant-intelligence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127726 Points: 22 # Comments: 7
The European Commission wants to build up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe, backed by around 30 billion euros in public and private funding. For context, the major U.S. tech companies alone plan to spend more tha…
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/situational-awareness-down-67-in-july-in-ai-stock-rout-cd19901f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122994 Points: 137 # Comments: 135
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real-world organizations during third-party evaluations.
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals">Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations</a></strong></p> It happened again! This is turni…
Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.
Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way.
Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song recommendations perform millions or billions of operations that multiply inputs by learne…
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/23f388eb-e8ab-4fb1-b1ca-8e04eb4561a1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108480 Points: 50 # Comments: 40
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on four other services. Hugging Face reconstructed about 17,600 actions over two and a half days, inc…
Article URL: https://juliahub.com/blog/frontier-models-physical-ai-evaluation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098388 Points: 98 # Comments: 21
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8zng43npo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092549 Points: 68 # Comments: 47
As a discerning AI investor who values style and substance, Sarah Guo knows this season’s standout accessory isn’t the latest designer purse — but what’s inside it. In a recent video, Guo, founder of AI-native venture c…
Nvidia is pouring what it calls a "substantial" sum into Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab run by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist. The article Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's AI lab, shifting S…
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.
America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabe…
<p><strong><a href="https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market">An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud</a></strong></p> Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has…
The KwaiKAT Team at Kuaishou has published the KAT-Coder-V2.5 technical report, arguing that agentic coding capability is bottlenecked by training infrastructure rather than model scale. AutoBuilder raised environment c…
Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co…
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering t…
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
Together, Motorway and AWS built an end-to-end evaluation pipeline that reduced incorrect results from 1 in 8 queries to 1 in 50 and cut issue detection time from few hours to few minutes. The pipeline combines the Stra…
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-big-tech-ai-spending-climbs-2026-07-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021006 Points: 265 # Comments:…
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates ne…
OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 - July 2026 (1121 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015639 Points: 1…
In this tutorial, we explore EdgeBench as a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task categories, runtime environments, and interaction-time budgets. We begin by downloading the dataset s…
The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity evaluations. All five tried to cheat. One even ran code on an external service to access the institute's infrastructure…
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company's valuation to around 20 billion euros. The article Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion…
Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260721-microsoft-strikes-multi-billion-dollar-deal-to-expand-france-ai-firm-mistral Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003810 Points: 39 # Comments: 15
During an internal security evaluation, OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped their sandbox, independently discovered a zero-day vulnerability, and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The models w…
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-to-redirect-billions-in-research-funds-toward-ai-away-from-colleges-942dacb8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999357 Points: 29 # Comments…
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-br... See also Security incident disclosure – July 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956248 (9 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
Microsoft and Mistral are expanding their strategic partnership with a multi-billion-dollar deal to build out AI infrastructure in Europe. The article Microsoft and Mistral strike multi-billion-dollar deal to build AI i…
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of inn…
NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model built to run on-device. It helps robots and vision AI agents understand surroundings, reason in real time, and generate robot actions locally. Th…
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
AUUUUUGH | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole.…
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/big-tech-needs-to-justify-ai-spending-as-investors-dump-stocks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974426 Points: 44 # Comments: 14
Perplexity's WANDR is an open benchmark and evaluation harness with 500 evidence-heavy tasks. It tests whether research agents can discover many qualifying entities and back each one with cited, re-verifiable evidence.…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than…
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637"><p>On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. </p> <p>What we have found is that thi…
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and t…
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a multimodal open-weights model with 975 billion parameters. It leads U.S. open-weights models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligen…
Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 Points: 237 # Comments: 82
Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as…
PrismML has compressed a 27-billion-parameter AI model to under 4 GB, small enough to run on an iPhone. In the company's own benchmarks, the smallest version keeps 90 percent of the original performance, with math and c…
Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluation protocols for fr…
A new Anthropic study maps hundreds of value concepts derived from thousands of individual terms onto four core dimensions. It reveals systematic differences across Claude models and languages, but also raises methodolo…
Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.
MORPHEUS from Skyfall AI is a persistent enterprise simulation platform for continual reinforcement learning. It runs worlds that never reset, using parameterisable regime shifts and a six-metric evaluation protocol. Ac…
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
Prime Intellect launched verifiers 0.2.0, previewing a rewritten "v1" core under the verifiers.v1 namespace. It splits an environment into a taskset (what), a harness (how), and a runtime (where), with an interception s…
Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.
Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/dropping-greenwashing-credits-and-expanding-ai-datacenters-caused-microsofts-25-percent-emissions-jump Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870229 Po…
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on AI's economic impact. Warsh views AI as a "significant disinflationary force," but Andreessen's firm Andreessen Hor…
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and…
A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.
Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model. Like OpenAI's GPT Image 2, it works as an agent, using tools like code execution and web search to refine its own results. A controversia…
With ChatGPT Finances, I can see all my money, investments, and debts in one place - and I can ask AI what it all means.
SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.
Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are active at any given time. Tencent says Hy3 matches models tw…
Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, ent…
Several industry groups have raised public safety concerns about consumer plug-in solar kits. If in doubt about your installation, keep these tips in mind.
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI…
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
In a study covering seven benchmarks, the UK's AI Security Institute shows that standard AI evaluations systematically underestimate agent capabilities by capping the compute budget. On software engineering tasks, succe…
Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.
Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.
In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evaluation, design a reward aligned with the end task, manage wha…
Article URL: https://mlq.ai/news/meta-caps-internal-ai-token-spending-after-costs-approach-billions-in-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754713 Points: 145 # Comments: 141
In this tutorial, we build a full PDF-to-structured-data workflow around Lift, built for controlled evaluation rather than a one-off demo. We prepare a Colab GPU environment, load Lift in 4-bit NF4, and generate synthet…
SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI smartphone that's supposedly thinner than an iPhone and integrates xAI tech. The device runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip with its own operating system. Musk wants to build an "ev…
SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations. and Q&A on what it takes to build and scale successful compan…
It’s our goal for AWS to be the most secure place to run any workload, and in support of that we’ve been deeply investing in security across our services since AWS's inception more than two decades ago. Our AI services…
Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork. The use cases are promising, especially for an industr…
Article URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-tech-billionaires-mark-cuban-scared-public Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730817 Points: 35 # Comments: 15
For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.
We build a Colab-ready PyGraphistry workflow for interactive graph analytics on enterprise access data. We generate a synthetic dataset of users, devices, IPs, services, roles, and geos, then convert it into nodes and e…
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and t…
Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.
Sina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models are up to 333 times larger. The secret isn't size but multi-s…
J.P. Morgan warns that there are "signs of investor exuberance" in AI markets. Just 42 AI companies in the S&P 500 account for 65 to 80 percent of the index's total profits. The semiconductor rally is flashing technical…
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intelligence.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678873 Points: 147 # Comments: 128
Apple increased prices in its official store, but Amazon still has the lowest prices for Prime Day.
A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning arguments 80 percent of the time, and even Musk's Grok, marketed a…
Adobe said that it will integrate Topaz Labs' tools across its apps.
The first Windows Secure Boot expiration date is here for more than a billion PCs, with more to come - and even some Linux distros are affected. Is your PC ready?
The race for the first sub-one-nanometer chip is over, and IBM has won.
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.
A critical Windows expiration date is here for more than a billion PCs - and even some Linux distros are affected. Is your PC ready?
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI."…
Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.
OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.
Micron is investing in Anthropic's Series H round and getting a multi-year deal to supply memory for Claude's infrastructure. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown calls memory critical to training and running Claude. Critics…
In this post, we walk through the problem space, our architecture on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the evaluation methodology we built on OpenStreetMap ground truth, four experiments that compared emb…
Companies are investing in AI agents and cutting staff, but talented professionals will find new opportunities.
To assess the competitive advantage of potential acquisition targets, Bain & Company uses Vibecoding to replicate their software. These AI replicas are already influencing specific purchasing decisions. The article Vibe…
Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.
According to Yann LeCun, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are heading for a "big bubble explosion": Their operations are effectively subsidized by investors, and operating costs aren't dropping fast enough, he says. Le…
Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.
The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.
With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
AI investments by insurers are now expected to generate tangible business value beyond mere efficiency. According to findings in the 2026 Evident AI Index, insurers are now embedding AI technologies into workflows that…
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't),…
OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't),…
Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health data.
An internal memo to 6,000 employees reveals Meta is heading toward billions in AI costs from internal use alone. Starting in 2027, budgets, allocations, and a central dashboard called "AI Gateway" will govern token cons…
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't),…
As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, Open…
olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, Open…
SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He has more wealth, on pa…
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't),…
French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros. The article Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push appea…
Anthropic is throttling its new Mythos model for certain tasks while building apps that directly compete with its largest customers. Customers, partners, and investors are pushing back. The article The AI industry's pla…
OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development environments for software development. The article OpenAI buys O…
The company has set aside an unusually high number of shares for retail investors. Still, experts say, you’re just getting the crumbs.
Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.
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After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of outright fraud.
A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water co…
Agent-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) that makes this evaluation infrastructure available by integrating with AI coding assistants, including Claude Code, Kiro CLI, and Kilo Code. This post walks through…
For more than a decade, artificial intelligence has been touted as a way to dramatically accelerate drug discovery. Yet despite billions of dollars in investment, relatively few AI-designed medicines have made it to pat…
Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and align…
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26-billion-parameter model that generates text not token by token but through diffusion, similar to how image AI turns noise into a picture. According to Nvidia, it hits about 1,000 tok…
Sam Altman told employees he expects an OpenAI IPO "within the next year," but a delay to 2027 is possible. He frames it as caution around self-improving AI, though Anthropic's stronger growth numbers and imminent IPO m…
Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.
Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
SpaceX wants to launch data centers into space, and Elon Musk is pitching it as a near-trivial engineering problem ahead of the company's IPO. A first AI satellite would match the output of a single Nvidia GB300 rack. B…
How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex with GPT-5.5 to investigate hard-to-reproduce issues, build across platforms, and focus on product outcomes.
OpenAI has confidentially filed an S-1 registration with the SEC, taking the first formal step toward an IPO. There's no set timeline, and the company calls it "a complicated set of tradeoffs." Rival Anthropic recently…
The ChatGPT-maker announced it has filed paperwork to go public, just a week after rival Anthropic took the same step.
Microsoft Research presents Lens, a text-to-image model with just 3.8 billion parameters that matches much larger rivals on benchmarks, at a fraction of the training cost. The secret sauce: 800 million detailed image ca…
The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.
OpenAI to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO.
Microsoft has wrapped up its investigation into Israel's military use of its Azure cloud and is rolling out new human rights checks. But the report leaves key questions unanswered: the actual contents of the military da…
Google Research details an agentic RAG framework in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. A Sufficient Context Agent re-searches until multi-hop, multi-source queries have enough grounding to answer. The framework raises fa…
Small language models fail at rare tasks because frequent ones constantly overwrite what they've learned. A new study with models ranging from 4 million to 4 billion parameters shows this mechanism in detail and offers…
This tutorial walks through NVIDIA garak as an end-to-end framework for defensive LLM red-teaming. It covers setup, plugin discovery, dry runs, real-model scans on a Hugging Face generator, and multi-probe evaluations.…
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
Florida is the first US state to sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman personally over risks to minors, missing age checks, and inadequate safety investment. The 83-page complaint treats ChatGPT as a product subject to liabilit…
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together…
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together…
“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”
On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture cap…
On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.
Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.
For the first time, Google is giving website operators an opt-out toggle in Search Console for AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which together already reach more than 3.5 billion monthly users. New perf…
The round funds expansion of low-latency edge inference, a segment drawing investor attention as deployment costs become a competitive lever.
As AI systems become more capable, a lot of resources and effort are being put toward measuring their abilities. Researchers look at technical evaluation metrics, subject AIs to reasoning tests, track their throughput,…
Discover new Codex plugins, sites, and annotations that help analysts, marketers, designers, investors, and other teams get more done with AI.
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Zhipu.AI open-sources faster GLM models (8x speedup), launches Z.ai, aiming for global expansion, potentially ahead of IPO. Zhipu.AI’s Open-Source Power Play: Blazing-Fast GLM Models & Global Expansion Ahead of Potentia…
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