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Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply "learnings" from DOGE to the private sector.
The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic's Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.
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Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4.
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ChatGPT introduces a new memory system to better remember preferences, keeping context fresh and relevant across conversations.
Postgres database startup Supabase Inc. has closed on a $500 million late-stage investment that brings its valuation to a cool $10.5 billion, it revealed today.
Ramp has nearly tripled its valuation over the past year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup.
Anthropic PBC has sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development and is calling on the world’s top AI laboratories to consider slamming on the brakes.
Cloudflare Inc. today said it has acquired VoidZero Inc., the open-source company behind Vite and the widely used JavaScript build tools that surround it, in a move to position its developer platform at the center of artificial intelligence-assisted web development.
Augment Code Computing Inc., an artificial intelligence agent platform provider, announced the launch of Cosmos Thursday, a service it says is designed to push beyond the era of individual AI coding assistants and into a more coordinated model for engineering teams.
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Anthropic's recent IPO filing accompanied by its call for halting rapid AI advancements raises eyebrows. Can the tech industry pump the brakes?
The legislation has already drawn widespread criticism for its proposal to preempt state AI laws.
Pydantic CEO Samuel Colvin sees a shift in AI, with OpenAI and Anthropic focusing less on model quality and more on locking in users with innovative coding databases. This could redefine how we view coding efficiency.
Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic, sees the top AI frontier labs creating databases of coding intent.
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Apple is potentially shifting AI dynamics by leveraging Nvidia's infrastructure. This could mean a new AI front as Apple integrates sophisticated AI into its consumer ecosystem.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk commits to investing $30B in India by 2030, with plans to develop 5GW of new data center capacity in the country — Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk said on Thursday it would invest $30 billion in India by 2030 …
No sooner did Anthropic file for its initial public offering of stock this week than it then put out a missive suggesting that AI model makers need to slow down to let us catch our breath — or else AI can improve itself so fast that human society won’t be able to handle the results.
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AI could soon lead to systems capable of improving their own performance faster than humans can effectively supervise them, reviving concerns about the industry’s longstanding “ alignment problem,” ensuring AI systems reliably pursue human goals, senior Anthropic researchers have warned in a new blog post titled...
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Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it's a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack.
Anthropic has reportedly stationed about half a dozen engineers directly at the NSA to adapt its Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations.
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Reuters: Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the startup prepares for its IPO — A months-long dispute between Trump administration officials and AI firm Anthropic is showing signs of easing across parts …
Flourish Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence models inspired by the human brain, has raised $500 million in funding at a $2.5 billion valuation.
Agentic AI is making the semantic layer an essential enterprise priority because headless agents asking thousands of questions simultaneously have zero tolerance for inconsistent data definitions.
Radiant Logic Inc., a platform that provides identity visibility and intelligence, today announced it’s extending its services to agentic artificial intelligence to help companies control and govern this new type of autonomous software.
Hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.
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The Economic Times: India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera — The capital infusion, completed through a combination of primary and secondary transactions from Panthera, positions …
Singapore-based data center developer and operator DayOne Data Centers has completed the final closing of its Series C equity financing at $4.5 billion, in one of the largest fundraises by a data centre company in the region.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Factorial, Europe’s leading AI Workforce Operations Platform, has announced the closing of a $150 million Series D funding round at a valuation of $2.5 billion, making it one of the most valuable Spanish and European scale-ups.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Arpio, an AI-native recovery and resilience platform for cloud environments, has announced the close of a $15 million Series A financing co-led by S3 Ventures and Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Draper Associates, Uncorrelated, Valor Ventures, CreativeCo Capital, and...
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Computex 2026 closed on June 5 with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reaffirming the scale of AI infrastructure demand in his keynote — and Foxconn, as the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, is among the most direct beneficiaries of that buildout.
The former OpenAI CTO previewed models for continuous audio, text and video, but left release timing and customer traction unstated.
Anthropic is sharing internal data showing how much Claude is speeding up its own AI development: more than 80 percent of production code now comes from Claude, and engineers are shipping eight times as much code per day as in 2024.
SambaNova used a Computex 2026 session on June 4 to make its most public case yet that the GPU-only approach to AI inference is hitting a fundamental wall — and to demonstrate, live on stage, an alternative architecture it calls disaggregated inference running in a production data center.
When Jensen Huang was asked in Taipei about Samsung Electronics' recent labor dispute, the Nvidia chief executive offered a characteristically direct response.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a strategic partnership with Nokian Tyres Plc to modernise the tyre manufacturer’s IT operations by leveraging artificial intelligence and agentic automation technologies.
Cloudflare said agentic traffic has surpassed human traffic for the first time in internet history. Read more: Cloudflare acquires Vite maker Voidzero for an AI-native web
Anthropic has released a new report exploring a future in which artificial intelligence systems play an increasingly active role in developing the next generation of AI models.
AI models trained with reinforcement learning in vulnerable setups exploit flaws for rewards. This raises alarm for AI safety, suggesting a need for broader oversight.
OpenAI is rolling out a rebuilt memory system for ChatGPT that synthesizes information from your chat history in the background and updates it over time, starting with Plus and Pro users in the US.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea on June 5 for meetings with major Korean business leaders, as the company's cooperation with local companies broadens beyond high-bandwidth memory into robotics, automobiles, gaming, and cloud infrastructure.
The Information: Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a $50B+ valuation — Data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50 billion, as it seeks to capitalize …
Meta has postponed the public release of the application programming interface (API) for its latest AI model, Muse Spark, multiple times since its April debut, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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Nvidia is moving deeper into humanoid robotics, combining robot hardware, secure computing, world models and developer platforms as AI shifts from digital workloads to physical AI.
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
Koichi Fukuda, technology executive for applied SSD technology at Kioxia, used a Computex 2026 forum session on June 4 to argue that as enterprise AI shifts toward agentic systems, the next major constraint on AI performance will not be compute power but the ability to move data fast enough to feed it.
Anthropic calls for a slowdown in AI development, echoing its safety-first stance as it confidentially files for an IPO. The debate over AI's pace intensifies.
Patel says ScaleDown's small language models beat GPT-5.4 Mini on cost, speed and accuracy, but the benchmarks are self-reported.
2026 is turning out to be a pivotal proving ground for agentic AI: providers now need to show proven use cases, not just prototypes.
Foxconn and Intel have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI racks, Edge AI, and Physical AI. The move signals Intel's effort to rebuild competitiveness in a market increasingly shaped by Nvidia's dominance in AI training and inference.
As AI pushes liquid cooling into mainstream server thermal design, suppliers are widening their focus beyond Nvidia's benchmark thermal designs. Industry players say pumps are emerging as a key lever for improving cooling efficiency, alongside flow rate and fluid speed.
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 — Scotch, an AI-native operating system designed specifically for liquor store owners, has secured $20 million in a Series A...