Startups & Funding
The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees
The CEO of Allbirds has launched a new AI business with significant funding but currently operates as a sole founder...
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LLM
Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages
Liquid AI has introduced LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M, two retrieval models combining dense bi-encoder...
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Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate
OpenAI researchers demonstrate that training AI models on beneficial traits like truthfulness and corrigibility through...
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Startups & Funding
e2e-assure introduces Cumulo, the U.K.’s only sovereign, AI-driven, zero-day SOC platform to secure IT and OT environments
e2e-assure launched Cumulo, the U.K.'s sovereign AI-driven SOC platform designed to secure IT and OT environments using...
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Ethics & RegulationGoogle
Google appeals ruling that made it directly liable for AI-generated search overview content
Google is appealing a Munich court ruling that held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI-generated search...
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LLMOpenAI
Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are
Two former OpenAI employees created a website called "In the Weights" that reveals which people AI models can recall...
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Startups & FundingOpenAI
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
Barret Zoph has departed OpenAI after just five months as head of enterprise AI sales, having recently returned from a...
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Coding Co-pilot
Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks
This tutorial demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen, a Python function generation model from...
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Startups & Funding
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
Elastic has agreed to acquire DeductiveAI, an AI startup founded three years ago that uses artificial intelligence to...
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Startups & Funding
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly raising $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, capitalizing on the growing...
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Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
Anthropic is unable to distribute Claude Mythos and Fable 5 after conflicts with the Trump administration over unclear...
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Startups & Funding
Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs
Snap is spinning off its AI video development team into a new independent company called Dotmo. Current Snap employees...
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AI Agents
Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight
Perplexity has launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent that tracks the agent's work...
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Startups & FundingOpenAI
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is preparing for its IPO by recruiting high-profile talent, including Noam Shazeer, a Transformer co-inventor...
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AI AgentsMeta
Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump
Meta's newly formed AI unit is experiencing significant internal dysfunction and employee morale issues. The article...
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Healthcare AIOpenAI
ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT with GPT-5.5 Instant, which now outperforms doctor-written answers in healthcare accuracy,...
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Coding Co-pilotAnthropic
Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions
Anthropic has introduced Artifacts to Claude Code, a feature that allows teams to turn coding session results into...
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Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis
SK Telecom lost access to Anthropic's Claude AI model through Project Glasswing after US officials raised concerns...
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Personal Assistants
Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
A Match survey reveals that 47% of US singles view AI negatively in dating contexts, though many are open to AI...
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