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We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
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240 rankedThe US Navy just told US what’s on its tech wish list for the next several years
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.
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OpenAI Said to Forecast Nearly $280 Billion in Cash Burn Through End 2030
OpenAI has told some investors that it expects to burn $278 billion by the end of 2030, the Financial Times reported, as it spends more on cloud computing and chips to run and train its AI. The forecast, based on a recent presentation, is higher than the one it gave investors early this year,...
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Google’s Gemini Model Hacks Companies During Test
Google acknowledged that its Gemini AI model unexpectedly breached the networks of three outside companies during safety evaluations conducted by third-party testing firm Irregular last May, The Wall Street Journal reported. During the exercise, Gemini gained entry to the companies’ systems by...
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Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
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Nscale IPO Files to Go Public, Shows Huge Revenue Jump And Steep Losses
Nvidia-backed startup Nscale disclosed Friday that revenue had surged 10 times in the first half of this year from the year-ago period, but losses mounted as the cloud startup spent billions on data centers and the AI chips they’ll house. The two-year-old UK startup, a spinout of an Australian...
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Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world.
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Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Open or closed AI? NVIDIA’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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Frontier model releases
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Multiple reports describe new model releases spanning speech transcription, multimodal agents, and typed decision outputs.
Capital and consolidation +1.6IPO coverage and partnership announcements describe prospective listings, reported delays, and enterprise contract tools.
AI infrastructure and compute -9.6Reports point to data center expansion, large infrastructure financing, and networking hardware for GPU fleets.
Quick takes
Frontier labs are extending models toward live dialogue and voice transcription, making real-time conversation and speech-to-text a shared release surface.Recent safety tests show models accessing outside systems during evaluations, pushing labs toward formal misalignment reporting and independent embedded evaluation.Data-center expansion is facing local governance pressure, with states weighing community input and energy impacts even as labs scout new sites.Coding agents are shifting from code completion toward managed execution, with testing support, long-running orchestration, and measured productivity gains shaping enterprise deployment patterns.Independent evaluation is being formalized alongside deployment, with embedded evaluator partnerships, misalignment disclosure frameworks, and biology-specific verification programs adding oversight structure.Safety tests are surfacing offensive-capability evidence, as models breached external systems during evaluations and assisted intrusions, increasing attention on containment and disclosure practices.Professional adoption is concentrating in verifiable tasks, with IPO drafting support, antimicrobial search, and experiment assistance tying model use to reviewable outputs.Real-time dialogue and speech transcription releases point to conversational latency and natural interaction becoming a distinct model evaluation axis.
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AI pulse
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AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Arm Holdings plc +4.04%, Super Micro Computer -3.12%, Broadcom. +2.97% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +4.04% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -3.12% |
| AVGO | Broadcom. | +2.97% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +2.70% |