Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an open-source SDK that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with ultra-low late…
President Donald Trump told Axios he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after meeting CEO Dario Amodei at the G7 Summit, signaling a possible easing of restrictions on the company…
Nobel laureate John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. The departure follows Gemini co-lead…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the ERNEST rover prototype in California's Colorado Desert, covering 16 miles in 37 hours at speeds up to 0.6 mph—10 times faster than current Mars rovers. The …
Amazon MGM Studios dropped 'Artificial,' its nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's 2023 firing, four months after investing $50 billion in OpenAI. The decision, which Amazon attributed to…
Norway will ban generative AI for elementary school students aged 6-13 starting in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced. Students aged 14-16 may use AI only under teacher supervision…
Aether AI, a San Diego-based startup, raised $20mn in seed funding to develop causal world models that teach machines cause and effect, challenging the industry's focus on scaling larger models. The c…
HyperLight, a Harvard spinout developing thin-film lithium niobate optics for AI data centers, raised $80 million from chip designer MediaTek, contract manufacturers Foxconn and Jabil, and other hardw…
Hackers are increasingly exploiting trusted developer tools rather than breaking into systems, with two major campaigns this week highlighting the trend. TeamPCP injected malicious code into over 1,00…
John Edwards, the UK's Information Commissioner and top data and AI regulator, resigned on Friday following a workplace investigation into his conduct, marking the first resignation in the office's 40…
Google's AI Overviews are presenting entries from the SCP Foundation, a collaborative horror fan-fiction project, as factual information. The AI fails to note that the content is fictional, despite cl…
OpenAI hired Dean Ball, a former White House AI adviser who helped write the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, to lead a new policy team called Strategic Futures, and also recruited Noam Shazeer,…
Miami startup Subquadratic claims to have solved a decade-old bottleneck in AI models by replacing dense attention with sparse attention, achieving 56x speed gains and dramatic cost reductions. Indepe…
Google is using Nvidia's own tactics—financial guarantees and circular financing—to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips. The Wall Street Journal reports Google has provided a $3.2bn guarantee for…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, giving the American public a half-stake in these firm…
Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro due to soaring memory chip prices driven by AI demand, marking the first casualty of a device that will not exist rather than just costing more. Apple …
Amazon placed three engineers under investigation after they testified to Seattle's city council in favor of regulating data centers, leading them to file a civil-rights complaint alleging retaliation…
Big Tech executives, including Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, have reversed their warnings that AI would cause mass unemployment, now claiming it will create jobs and lead to a labor shortage. The shift c…
AI cheating tools that humanize or autotype AI-generated text are proliferating on TikTok and YouTube, defeating detection software used by teachers. Some companies sell both detection and evasion too…
A new Public First poll of 15 countries finds that majorities in 11 nations, including US allies Canada, Britain, and France, believe China leads the US in AI capability. However, trust in Chinese mod…