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Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort

Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are…

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for…

Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds

Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.

Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

"We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."

Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?

The article argues that when AI agents cause harm or breach security, responsibility lies with the companies and…

Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites

OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it's pausing…

Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation

The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

A team has created a distributed inference system running a 1.58-bit quantized language model (BitNet) across a cluster…

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A cybersecurity researcher published a detailed map revealing that Flock Security operates approximately 300,000…

Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, has purchased 15,000 hectares of forest in Härjedalen, Sweden, for $22 million…

Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."

Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs

AI lab leaders, including Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei, publicly advocate for "pacing the frontier" to allow time for AI…

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

Jeff is a lightweight decision model (0.8B parameters) fine-tuned from Qwen and Gemma models that performs zero-shot…

Best of British Design

The text appears to be an interactive bracket or voting interface for British design, allowing users to compare and vote…

World Labs Is Joining AMD

World Labs has agreed to join AMD to accelerate AI research focused on spatial and physical world applications. Dr.

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price

Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an…

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Leading AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic have engaged in a coordinated campaign of announcements highlighting the dangers…

California expanded the right to delete today

After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI…

Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents

Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete…

Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather

Tesla says the event "can only be held outdoors," as it's expected to show the car flying in some form using SpaceX…

The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it

Just like the rest of the U.S, data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.

Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

In this 2004 Slashdot interview, Neal Stephenson demonstrates sharp wit and intellectual depth while addressing…

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

MicroLLM Lab is an in-browser tool that allows users to test and benchmark seven small language models using WebGPU,…

Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out

OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government…

Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents

As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional…