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AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation model [...]
Read source →OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon - [...]
Read source →In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies' financial data, which was stored on its systems. But suddenly, concerned callers [...]
Read source →Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as "ChatGPT's use of language, including first-person pronouns [...]
Read source →In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI's latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated [...]
Read source →Walmart says it won't change product prices based on your personal information or the time of day, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In a letter to customers, Walmart CEO John Furner writes that the company's switch to digital shelf labels is meant to save store associates time, rather than dynamically change prices. [...]
Read source →Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian.  Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to [...]
Read source →Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that attempt to escape their boundaries within [...]
Read source →Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though. This isn't a "push-button, get-song" device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40 [...]
Read source →Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it's yet another concerning example of AI [...]
Read source →In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
Read source →Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
Read source →A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Read source →The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
Read source →The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
Read source →AI-generated music has the potential to revolutionize the music industry by providing new creative tools and opportunities for artists.
AI-generated music tools and platforms, such as Amper Music and AIVA, will continue to improve and become more accessible to musicians and composers.
AI-generated music has the potential to revolutionize the music industry by providing new creative tools and opportunities for artists.
AI-generated music tools and platforms, such as Amper Music and AIVA, will continue to improve and become more accessible to musicians and composers.
AI-generated music has the potential to revolutionize the music industry by providing new creative tools and opportunities for artists.
AI-generated music tools and platforms, such as Amper Music and AIVA, will continue to improve and become more accessible to musicians and composers.
AI-generated music has the potential to revolutionize the music industry by providing new creative tools and opportunities for artists.
AI-generated music tools and platforms, such as Amper Music and AIVA, will continue to improve and become more accessible to musicians and composers.
AI-generated music has the potential to revolutionize the music industry by providing new creative tools and opportunities for artists.
AI-generated music tools and platforms, such as Amper Music and AIVA, will continue to improve and become more accessible to musicians and composers.