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Citadel, managing about $71 billion in assets, has acquired the majority of the public equities portfolio of Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after h…
Top math and computer science graduates are landing entry-level pay packages worth up to $1.5 million as AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic compete with Wall Street trading firms for the same talent, according to recruite…
A backlash is brewing against Anthropic across Silicon Valley, according to The Wall Street Journal, as the company founded by former OpenAI executives to build safer AI faces accusations of using safety concerns to supp…
Microsoft is evolving from OpenAI's strategic partner into a direct AI competitor, building its own portfolio of proprietary AI models, enterprise tools, and intelligent agents across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub, and …
Former OpenAI researcher Andrew Ho, who left the company Wednesday to start a high-end reinforcement learning dataset firm, said he holds about $700,000 in OpenAI equity that he cannot sell until after an IPO and lockup …
Bottleneck Labs founder Alex Reibman gave an autonomous agent called Saul control of an iOS app, a Mac mini, an email account, and $350 for 24 hours, ordering it to grow the business. The agent lost $99.50 in cash, added…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is planning to build a 1 gigawatt AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, with some capacity expected online by early 2028, according to job postings and reports. The facility, equivalent t…
Meta stock tumbled nearly 9% on Thursday after the company reported a 91% plunge in free cash flow to $784 million and plans to spend up to $145 billion this year on AI infrastructure, extending a record losing streak. M…
Marble, a New York-based Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Aakar Khanna and Arjun Chaliha, launched an AI operating system for restaurant back-office tasks including inventory, purchasing, and labor planning. The co…
Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, bringing its total funding to over $21 million. The startup also debuted Hydra, …
Utah launched the $5 million AI Moonshot Program to fund projects that promote "pro-human" AI, with grants of up to $1 million available. Gov. Spencer Cox announced the initiative, which seeks proposals in health care, h…
Meta is exploring an AI cloud business to lease its excess computing capacity to outside firms, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed on July 9, with a potential two-year, $10 billion deal with Anthropic under discussion. The co…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30th, an open-weights multimodal model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, designed to deliver much of its larger sibling'…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the majority of its leveraged public equity holdings to Ken Griffin's Citadel in a deal that closed around July 30, 2026, while retaining its prize…
San Francisco AI startup LemonLime apologized after offering on-the-spot job interviews to people who got permanent tattoos at its YC Startup School afterparty, drawing comparisons to the Netflix series 'Black Mirror.' C…
Citadel Securities paid $10 billion to acquire the public equity holdings of Situational Awareness LP, the AI-focused hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund faced margin call…
Simile, a Stanford-spun-out AI startup, has raised a $100 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and AI luminaries including Andrej Karpathy a…
Former OpenAI researcher Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt argue that large language models are becoming more specialized rather than versatile, with progress stagnating in areas outside coding and math. Ho is…
Google is backing a $15 billion loan for a massive Texas data center campus developed by Nexus Data Centers to provide compute infrastructure for Anthropic, with the initial phase costing upwards of $5 billion and target…
Lamina Labs, a two-person San Francisco AI-video startup founded by MIT graduates Sudip Rokaya and Kartikesh Mishra, has raised $4.8 million to turn AI answers into narrated whiteboard-style explainer videos. The company…