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Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to start…

CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem

CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they…

A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub

Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memo…

Enterprise software costs threaten AI investment, innovation as firms spend 28% of budgets on unwanted changes: Report

Large enterprises may face growing constraints on innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) investments as vendor-driven software upgrades, migrations and licensing ch…

Exa 3.0 Search API Tops Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on 8 Benchmarks

Exa 3.0 is a search API upgrade from Exa. It adds a larger embedding model, Exa Lite at $4 per 1,000 requests, and Dynamic Highlights, and leads 8 benchmarks Exa ran its…

Cloudflare Releases Clairic, a System One Extraction Model on Workers AI

Cloudflare has previewed Clairic, a System One extraction model on Workers AI that returns typed values with confidence scores in one forward pass. It costs $0.10 per mi…

Eloelo's Saurabh Pandey bets that Dolphin AI can break the gatekeepers of Indian storytelling

The Eloelo Group founder says AI-led production could turn India's storytellers into a global export force.

Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?

As a freaky Val Kilmer doppelganger stars in a new western and faux starlet Tilly Norwood is set for her feature debut, experts are split on whether mainstream adoption …

U.S. Sanctions Five Chinese Entities Linked to Google AI Trade Secret Theft

The U.S. has sanctioned a startup and a venture capital firm from China connected to Linwei Ding, a Chinese national and former Google software engineer sentenced to pri…

Don’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby Hinsliff

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost Another morning, a…

Spain-Based Startups Advance Regional Innovation With Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme, now in full operation following a pilot initiative, gives startups access to sovereign comp…

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‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons – podcast

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5 , warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’…

Inception Releases Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM at 1,068 Tokens per Second

Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM it says runs at 1,068 tokens per second with a 1M-token context. On Inception’s own table it leads GPT-6 Luna and Claude Ha…

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and pu…

Trump administration orders ban on DeepSeek in federal agencies

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered artificial intelligence technology from the Chinese company DeepSeek Ltd. be removed from all federal civilian agencies. …

AI work assistant startup Town secures unicorn status after raising $108M just weeks after launching

Town.com Inc., an artificial intelligence agent startup laser focused on getting work done by collaborating with other AI agents, revealed today that it has raised $108 …

Interpretability Is the Key to Physical AI, Says World Mechanics CEO Sonia Joseph

Two of the hardest problems in AI right now are creating models that understand the physical world, so called world models, and making sense of the internal workings of …

Palo Alto Networks CEO Advises Daughter on New AI-Focused Venture Capital Fund

These days, raising a new venture fund can seem like an uphill battle. First-time managers are competing with much bigger funds that can lure founders with rich valuatio…

Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59

Nace AI released Drex Max, a multimodal decision model that reads text and screenshots and returns calibrated probabilities. Nace reports 67.59 on Decision Index 0.3.2 a…

How HP Is Building an AI-Ready CDP with Databricks CustomerLake

At Data + AI Summit 2026, Luis Alonso, Global Head of Data Strategy & Engineering...

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Altman Describes Three Endgames for AI, Including One Where a Single Firm ‘Melts Everyone Else’s GPUs’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week told employees about three proposals the industry has discussed for how to safely develop AI, a stark framing that comes just as the Trum…