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OpenAI's latest data center proposal, "Project Camellia," included pledges regarding electricity bills, water use, and Codex credits for students.
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
A crowd of residents gathered at a Pennsylvania middle school auditorium on Wednesday to resist the construction of a massive data center campus.
Composable security operations startup Abstract Security Inc. today said it has raised a $25 million Series A extension, capital it will put toward widening in-stream threat detection and pushing its artificial intelligence tooling deeper into the security operations workflow.
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale up its collection of real-world, multimodal interaction data to fuel artificial intelligence robotics models developed by technology companies.
The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3.
Anthropic's head of economics, Peter McCrory, says AI is working better with humans for now. Mark Cuban says that may never change.
A senior White House official has accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of using so-called “distillation” techniques to essentially pirate the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s most powerful models in its own, open-source AI systems.
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, its third coding model in three months. Rather than rely on raw scale, the company trained it to keep checking its work, revise failed approaches, and avoid giving up too soon during long agentic sessions.
OpenAI designed Presence to help companies help run AI agents. But their own model broke containment.
Alphabet has raised its 2026 investment forecast to as much as $205 billion, saying demand continues to outpace spending.
Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it.
Internal documents show Amazon worked to lower Alexa+ AI costs by reducing the use of Anthropic models and getting more work from every GPU.
For years, OpenAI let startups like Harvey build legal software on top of its AI. Now, the company is making moves to court lawyers directly.
OpenAI's new Presence product signals its push beyond AI models into business software and AI-powered work.
CARPL.ai has raised $10 million, about Rs 96 crore, in a Series A funding round led by the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private-sector investment arm.
Insider Brief Travis Kalanick’s physical AI startup Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in funding, with a16z leading the investment and Ben Horowitz joining the company’s board.
Samsung is in talks to invest about EUR1 billion (approx. US$1.14 billion) in French AI startup Mistral as part of a wider fundraising round, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents.
Physical AI is becoming the next major inflection point in AI, as machine intelligence moves beyond cloud data centers and into robotics, industrial automation and other embedded systems that operate in the real world.
Google's latest blockbuster quarter highlights how much AI is driving growth, but also how expensive it is getting to keep up.
Google booked a huge paper gain from startup investments likely including SpaceX and Anthropic.
Shares in ServiceNow Inc. were up more than 3% in late trading today after the enterprise software company beat Wall Street targets across every headline metric in its fiscal second quarter and raised its full-year subscription revenue outlook, as its artificial intelligence products crossed $1 billion in annual...
Google has been closing the gap with ChatGPT, as its Gemini app hits 950 million monthly users.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model.
AI insurtech startup NeuralKart has raised Rs 2.35 crore in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV).
Anthropic PBC will purchase up to two gigawatts worth of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Anthropic has to pay $1.5 billion to book authors, the largest copyright settlement in class action history.
Google's delayed frontier model has rivals taking jabs. One analyst said it has shifted the perception "from leading edge to trailing edge."
Arrakis, a London and Paris startup building what it calls an AI operating system for industrial companies, has emerged from stealth with $38 million in total funding and a thesis that the biggest returns from artificial intelligence will come from factories and supply chains, not office software.
Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs.
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. In return, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for training and running its Claude models.
The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity evaluations.
"We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model," a top White House official wrote on X.
Cisco has released two small, open-source AI models for cybersecurity that detect about 150 times more vulnerabilities per dollar than large AI agents, according to the company's own tests.
OpenAI is planning a data center in Georgia called "Project Camellia" with a 3.2-gigawatt power deal from Georgia Power.
The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince.
Hugging Face used China's GLM 5.2 AI to help with a cyberattack. OpenAI said its models inadvertently caused the breach during tests.
Anthropic has now spent $40 million backing a nonprofit that has clashed with a Super PAC supported by OpenAI President Greg Brockman.
The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported.
Klaimee, a Y Combinator-backed InsurTech that provides insurance-backed performance warranties for AI agents, has secured $5.5m in seed funding.
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed.
Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI.
The founders of billion-dollar tech companies, including Meta, OpenAI, and Canva, have achieved success without ever getting college degrees.
Agentic artificial intelligence cybersecurity automation company Swimlane Inc. today announced the launch of an AI security operations center for managed security service providers.
Artificial intelligence-based email security startup StrongestLayer Inc. revealed today that it has raised $4.1 million in new funding to expand its platform and go-to-market push ahead of a planned Series A round.
China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy.
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-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup appeared first on The Decoder.
Tel Aviv and Palo Alto, Cybersecurity startup Glow has emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion.
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television with a warning for China.
The four companies announced the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades on Tuesday.
Glow Security Inc. said today it’s exiting stealth mode today as an instant unicorn after closing on a massive $180 million Series A funding.
Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”.
Samsung is reportedly weighing a bet on Europe’s best-funded AI startup. The South Korean conglomerate is in talks to invest in Mistral as part of a fundraising round that could value the Paris company at roughly €20bn, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
Nvidia's new financing model aids neoclouds like GMI Cloud in AI expansion. The chip giant's partnerships has sparked criticism on circular financing.
Bloomsbury, the London publisher best known for the Harry Potter series, has confirmed it will collect a share of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with authors, the largest copyright payout in US history.
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.
Wistron, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds server hardware for Nvidia, has opened its first factory on American soil, a $700 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that is already assembling Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips.
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
OpenAI said an AI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face. Here's what smart people are saying about the cyber incident.
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
An OpenAI job listing hinted at ambitions to build "publisher-side monetization" tools. OpenAI edited the ad after we asked about it.
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
On the surface, this week’s Vera Rubin launch is another major platform moment for Nvidia Corp., as the company maintains a steady drumbeat of artificial intelligence infrastructure innovation.
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft Corp.
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft Corp.
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding.
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc.
OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure.
Fluidstack Ltd., a startup helping Anthropic PBC build artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $830 million in funding.
Intel confirmed on Tuesday that it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in its data center group, the division responsible for Xeon server processors and AI-related hardware, as part of a broader restructuring under CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size.
When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. held its earnings call in May, Chief Executive Lisa Su told analysts that the current ratio of 4.5 GPUs to 1 CPU will compress toward 1 to 1 as AI agents and inference workloads require more CPU support.
San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sony Group Corp. said they will set up a joint venture to provide factory automation services by combining their expertise in artificial intelligence and image sensors.
Insider Brief Humanoid has raised $152 million in Series A funding to develop and deploy industrial humanoid robots.
Trump’s health secretary says AI used to identify potential fraud in Democratic-run states The Trump administration has paused more than $1bn in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota, citing “suspected fraud and noncompliance” – withholding of funding that follows a $243m pause in Medicaid payments to...
London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion.
Anthropic's Claude Cowork desktop app now lets users record their screen while completing a task, add voice commentary, and have Claude turn the whole thing into a reusable skill. The article Claude Cowork learns new skills through screen recordings and voice-over explanations appeared first on The Decoder.