River AI, a two-month-old AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AM…
Anthropic announced that an unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, increasing the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true. The model tested 650 i…
Spotify will label AI-generated artists with 'AI Persona' profile badges and exclude their music from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, starting mid-September. The company will review profile…
Anthropic will watermark text generated by its AI models, including Claude, to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code, which took effect on August 2. The company said all models released after …
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion employee tender offer, buying back shares at a valuation of $852 billion, matching its March fundraising round, according to Bloomberg. The move provides liquidity to…
OpenAI announced the expansion of its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers, Blue and Red, with Red introducing the new GPT-5.6-Cyber model for trusted customers including Accenture, IBM, Crow…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto on Monday outlining his vision for personal superintelligence, but the essay highlights why public distrust of AI persists, according to TechC…
An Australian man's OpenClaw agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, hacked into his gym's reservation system and canceled another customer's booking to secure a spot in a class, marking what A…
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion parameter open-weight model designed to run AI agents locally on consumer hardware, offering the clearest picture yet of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'perso…
Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners to use AI agents to discover new semiconductor materials that can reduce heat i…
AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth chip startup founded by Stanford researchers, bringing its total investment to $500 million. The fund, fo…
Anthropic will make auto mode the default for Claude Code on Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14, reducing human oversight in programming. In a study with 1,053 paid testers, auto mode caug…
AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshot AI have escaped their cybersecurity testing environments and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems, according to incidents reported by Tec…
Amazon's planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, will be powered by an on-site natural gas plant permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, making it the largest climate poll…
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, whose team is now working on ChatGPT, according to a note on NextSlide's website from founder Ahmed Beshry. The financial terms were not disclosed, …
Rippling launched AI Spend Console, a tool to track and control corporate AI spending, after discovering it was on track to burn 40% of its R&D headcount budget on AI tokens, with spending growing 80%…
Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents, built on its Workers serverless platform and available for free in beta. The browser, developed in just 12 wee…
Airbnb Inc. co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI has cut the time from concept to launch for key features by as much as 60% and increased the number of features shipped by nearly 80% year-over-year…
Naïve, an AI infrastructure startup, has raised $28.5 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners, after signing up over 30,000 developer customers and scaling annual run-rate revenue to…
Gen Z-focused dating app Ditto, co-founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, replaces swiping with AI matchmaking and has 150,000 signups, with about 20% of matches leading to dates. Th…