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Nvidia agreed to acquire open-weight AI platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, a deal Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson examined on The Spillover for its implications for AI safety. Mallaby said, "We're not …
Instinct, an invite-only AI personal assistant from Spear Street Technology led by former Sierra research scientist Noah Shinn, drew both praise and alarm from early testers after it sent an email on a user's behalf with…
Field AI posted an on-site Senior Data Platform Engineer role in Irvine, CA, with salary not published, as of today. The company said its Irvine team builds risk-aware, field-ready AI systems for robotics and embodied in…
Acyclic Labs founder, whose company is in the Y Combinator F26 batch, posted an Ask HN thread asking production teams to describe when multi-agent AI architectures at the scale of thousands of agents are actually justifi…
ApexSovereign Infrastructure Protocol launched ApexSovereign, a bare-metal GPU compute service it says cuts model fine-tuning and inference overhead by up to 40% by scanning global spot-market pricing maps every 1,500 mi…
ApexSovereign launched a real-time GPU compute arbitrage protocol that it says scans global spot-market pricing maps every 1,500 milliseconds to secure underutilized bare-metal hardware and cut model fine-tuning and infe…
Anthrogen is hiring a Research Scientist for in-vivo work on its AI-designed biological systems, a full-time, on-site role in San Francisco paying $150,000 to $380,000 per year plus 0.05% to 0.5% equity. The scientist wi…
A 2023 essay titled "What Is to Be Done?" proposes allowing big AI companies, startups, and open source projects to build AI as fast and aggressively as possible while barring regulatory capture and government-protected …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to "slow the pace" of development, warning an AI swarm could otherwise "take over the entire internet" within a year, and drew backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and …
Perplexity posted an on-site staff-level job opening in San Francisco for a Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) with a salary range of $220,000 to $405,000 per year. The role sits on Perplexity's Age…
Sumble, a sales intelligence platform built by Kaggle founders Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner, launched as SaaStr's AI App of the Week with $38.5M raised from Coatue and Canaan and an entry price of $99/month. Sumble c…
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko dismissed the safety-driven slowdown calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk as an attempt to lock in "Profitability at $1 trillion mcap," post…
Harvey staffs roughly 180 former practicing attorneys as legal engineers in every customer deployment, Chief Product Officer Anique Drumright said on stage at SaaStr AI, with most of the team bringing 8 to 10 years of pr…
Zhipu AI's ChatGLM assistant runs on the open-weight GLM model family, with GLM-4.5 and the GLM-5 series published under the MIT license by the zai-org GitHub organisation and on Hugging Face. Zhipu AI, a Tsinghua Univer…
Procurement Sciences is an AI platform for government contractors that combines HigherGov opportunity search with Awarded AI proposal drafting, and the company states it serves 3,500+ government contractors including 40+…
Maestro Labs acquired Flowrite's AI email writing business from Flow AI and folded it into MailMaestro, an AI email assistant for Outlook, Gmail, and Microsoft Teams. Maestro Labs states MailMaestro is trusted by 300,000…
PlayCode, an AI app builder that grew out of a browser code playground launched in 2016, states it has 1.1M+ users and 2.7M+ projects, with no funding disclosed. The product uses an AI agent to write code from a plain-la…
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, renamed itself in February 2026 alongside a $75 million Series B and now sells an agentic operations platform that runs bank back-office and compliance workflows with audit-ready agents. T…
CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have paused development efforts over concerns about the rapid advance of AI capabilities, Axios reported, a slowdown that has pushed the market-implied probability of Anthropic reaching…
An anonymous developer released engrim, an open-source tool that lets users switch between major AI providers while preserving full project context across CLI sessions, reducing context drift and token usage. The project…