Startups & Funding
Nscale Gets $790M in Financing for Norway AI Buildout
Nscale, a neocloud startup, has secured $790M in financing to support its AI infrastructure expansion in Norway. The...
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Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released its first AI model designed to improve voice interaction by processing...
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Startups & Funding
Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
Dessn, a new startup, has raised $6M in funding to develop AI-powered design tools that integrate directly with...
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Startups & Funding
AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals
Vapi, an AI voice startup, achieved a $500M valuation after winning a contract with Amazon Ring over 40 competing...
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Startups & Funding
European AI Funding Is Growing. Will That Boost The Region’s Startup Scene?
European venture capital funding for AI startups is growing significantly in 2026, with investments spanning frontier...
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AI Agents
Laserfiche unveils AI agents for natural language workflows
Laserfiche has released AI agents that can perform tasks through natural language prompts while maintaining integrated...
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Research & Papers
Tilde Research Introduces Aurora: A Leverage-Aware Optimizer That Fixes a Hidden Neuron Death Problem in Muon
Tilde Research has introduced Aurora, a new neural network optimizer that fixes a critical flaw in the Muon optimizer...
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Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Thinking Machines is developing an AI model that can process input and generate responses simultaneously, enabling more...
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Research & Papers
What Parameter Golf taught us about AI-assisted research
Parameter Golf was a large-scale research event with over 1,000 participants exploring AI-assisted machine learning...
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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
General Motors is restructuring its IT workforce by laying off hundreds of workers while hiring employees with stronger...
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LLM
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.
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AI Agents
Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to
Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines announced it is developing 'interaction models' that can continuously...
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Ethics & Regulation
The EU wants to regulate AI but needs OpenAI and Anthropic to let regulators through the door
The EU is working to regulate AI but faces challenges in gaining access to leading AI models for security review....
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Baidu's Ernie 5.1 cuts 94 percent of pre-training costs while competing with top models
Baidu's Ernie 5.1 achieves significant cost reduction by using a third of its predecessor's parameters and requiring...
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Startups & Funding
Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg, the once-popular social news aggregator, has relaunched as an AI-focused news platform specifically dedicated to...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI automates HR compliance, except for the area tech companies need
AI is automating most HR compliance functions including background checks, payroll monitoring, and regulatory...
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Personal Assistants
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
Joanna Stern, former Wall Street Journal tech columnist, has left traditional media to start her own company called New...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI turns patches into working exploits in 30 minutes, and the 90-day disclosure window is the casualty
Language models can now convert security patches into functional exploits within 30 minutes, significantly accelerating...
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Startups & Funding
There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers — Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them
Cowboy Space raised $275M to build data centers in orbit to meet the growing demand for AI compute. The venture...
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