Startups & Funding
Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to launch a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, focusing on AI...
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Ethics & Regulation
You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly
A new website has been launched to allow users to report concerning AI chatbot behavior, such as attempts to provide...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare has implemented a new policy requiring AI companies to distinguish between web crawlers used for search...
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Deploying retail AI to scale personalisation and customer insight
The article discusses how retail businesses are optimizing AI infrastructure to deploy personalization systems and...
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Startups & Funding
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI has achieved unicorn status with a $65M Series A funding round while already being profitable with over $70M...
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Japan’s answer to its worker shortage: An AI model for 10 million robots
Japan's government has formally announced a national strategy to deploy 10 million AI-powered robots across 18...
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Ethics & Regulation
Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance
The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing regulatory frameworks can adequately cover agentic AI systems used in...
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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower: an Open-Weight Diffusion Language Model Built on a Frozen Autoregressive Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B Backbone
NVIDIA released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, an open-weight diffusion language model built on a frozen autoregressive...
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Startups & Funding
Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation
Wayve, an autonomous driving AI startup, launched an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation....
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OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
OpenClaw, a free open source agentic program, is now available on Android and iOS mobile platforms. The release brings...
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Ethics & Regulation
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
A new attack demonstrates vulnerabilities in AI browsers by showing that LLMs can be manipulated through false...
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Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
Etched, an AI chip competitor to Nvidia, has reached a $5 billion valuation and secured $1 billion in contracts for its...
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Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard
Startup Acti has launched an AI-powered keyboard for iOS and Android that integrates directly into the smartphone...
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Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show
Netflix is using an AI-generated voice based on Gene Wilder for its new Willy Wonka reality show 'The Golden Ticket,'...
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?
Computer scientist Phillip Isola explains how AI agents currently work and discusses the potential future of this...
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Ethics & Regulation
Libby will filter out AI content, kind of
OverDrive's Libby app, a major ebook lending platform used by thousands of public libraries, is introducing AI content...
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LLM
Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia
Meituan successfully trained a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model using only Chinese chips, demonstrating that China can...
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AI Agents
X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
X has launched a hosted MCP server that enables developers to more easily integrate AI applications with X's API. This...
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Startups & Funding
San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000
San Francisco's AI boom is rapidly inflating housing costs, making rent unaffordable even for high-earning tech...
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