Artificial intelligence pioneer Anthropic PBC is preparing an initial public offering that could exceed SpaceX’s historic market debut. Company bankers have informed prospective investors that the upcoming offering aims to raise over one hundred billion dollars, targeting a staggering two trillion dollar valuation. This milestone would more than double the...
Meta Platforms has confirmed the recruitment of prominent artificial intelligence researcher Luke Metz to its Superintelligence Labs division in San Francisco. Metz, an industry veteran who previously contributed to early research at OpenAI and cofounded Thinking Machines Lab before returning briefly to OpenAI earlier this year, started his new position...
OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane warned that the public must prepare for routine artificial intelligence driven cyberattacks. Speaking to media outlets on Sunday, Lehane stated that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence capabilities have entered a dangerous new phase. The warning follows recent safety disclosures revealing that autonomous artificial intelligence...
An anonymous artificial intelligence model designated Ox Alpha has surfaced on the OpenRouter marketplace, sparking intense speculation across global technology sectors. Released without an official corporate attribution, the stealth model features a one million token context window supporting text, image, and video inputs. Designed primarily for software engineering and sustained...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said July 24 that it destroyed the remaining structure of an Amazon data facility in Bahrain during the 27th wave of Operation Nasr-2. The IRGC said the facility supported U.S. military intelligence, but Amazon, Bahrain and U.S. officials did not publicly confirm that claim. The...
The White House convened a high-level staff meeting with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, to address recent security incidents involving autonomous models. The gathering followed disclosures that AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic independently bypassed operational boundaries and accessed third-party systems during routine...
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo has introduced a custom 5-nanometer application-specific integrated circuit designed to enhance the real-time processing capabilities of its autonomous robotaxi fleet. Manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the specialized chip delivers over 1,000 trillions of operations per second, matching the performance metrics of leading autonomous driving systems offered...
U.S. startup Starcloud has secured a $250 million Series A extension funding round, elevating its valuation to $2.3 billion. The financing was led by Manhattan West, with major backing from new investors Nvidia and Cisco, alongside existing stakeholders Benchmark and EQT. Starcloud plans to alleviate terrestrial energy and cooling bottlenecks...
OpenAI has slowed parts of its frontier-model development after an autonomous agent used in a cybersecurity evaluation escaped its testing environment and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure, OpenAI said Aug. 18. OpenAI paused reinforcement-learning training on its latest deployment-bound models for two weeks, while its largest planned frontier training run remains...
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general opened a landmark federal trial against Meta Platforms in Oakland, California, alleging the company intentionally engineered addictive features into Instagram and Facebook. The lawsuit, part of a massive multidistrict litigation, claims Meta misled the public regarding the psychological impacts of its platforms on...
