AI boom could end the de-equitisation ‘put’
This US bull market has not been accompanied by the usual deluge of equity issuance. Until now
This US bull market has not been accompanied by the usual deluge of equity issuance. Until now
Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on applications in the physical world. Anduril’s $5 billion financing was by far the biggest. Other large rounds went to companies focused on supplying data power, robotics, space tech, biotech, and even strawberries.
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development…
Databricks uses GPT-5.5 for enterprise agent workflows after the model set a new state of the art on the OfficeQA Pro benchmark.
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI’s product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to “invest in […]
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has “incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation,” such as hallucinated references or “meta-comments” left by an LLM, authors will be […]
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 – meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person’s face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts […]
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley’s favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole generation of founders already spinning out […]
Enterprise leaders must progress past generative applications and scale “autonomous intelligence” to capture real growth. Generating text or summarising internal communications offers localised productivity improvements, yet these abilities rarely alter the core cost or revenue structure of a large organisation. Enterprises are now focused on deploying systems capable of independent execution. Leaders are demanding applications […]
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The AI coding agent field in 2026 is more capable, more fragmented, and harder to benchmark than it looks. Claude Code leads on code quality at 87.6% SWE-bench Verified. GPT-5.5 tops Terminal-Bench at 82.7%. But the benchmark OpenAI itself declared contaminated in February 2026 is still being used to rank these tools — including by the labs publishing their own scores.
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Zyphra’s latest release shows that an autoregressive MoE model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss in evaluation performance. ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview achieves up to 7.7x inference speedup over autoregression by shifting decoding from memory-bandwidth bound to compute-bound — a key advantage as modern GPUs continue scaling FLOPs faster than memory bandwidth.
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Consultancy tells senior staff their remuneration will comprise a greater proportion of equity
Education technology start-up raises $70mn in its first fundraising since 2022
US tech giants including Alphabet and Amazon are tapping foreign debt market at an unprecedented rate
Toshiba spinout Kioxia plans to list American depositary shares to widen US investor pool
Software engineer Mo Gawdat takes a hopeful rather than apocalyptic view of a tech-enhanced future
Self-reported estimates about how quickly work can be completed are not the most meaningful metric
Incident is latest example of professional services firm being led astray by new technology
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a laptop screen. They include a supplier of cell-based milk, a startup that bills itself as the operating system for modern law firms, and a defense tech startup that makes containerized manufacturing platforms for drones and other equipment near the battlefield.
Employees have become “human middlemen” for AI tools, according to new data from Workday, sapping their productivity and wellbeing. UNLEASH attended Workday Elevate London to find out what actions HR leaders need to take to reap the benefits of their tech investments. Here’s how consolidating tools enabled Formula One to solve its hiring volume challenge.
As organizations adopt AI tools to manage the unprecedented volume of applicants, they are discovering how easily fraud can be committed.
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When asked with authenticity and respect, this question can carry surprising cultural weight when it comes to work-life balance.
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OpenAI is embedding engineers inside companies to redesign core workflows, including the ones HR owns. Anthropic recently did the same.
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Nearly 8 in 10 employers report that GLP-1s are driving an increase in their company’s health care costs.
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Benefits are shrinking at TTEC, Deloitte and Zoom. One employer named AI as the reason. HR leaders need a response ready.
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In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man says. “Give me an heir, or…
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The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something unusual about these. Published in 2017, the paper had assessed the accuracy of a particular type of statistical analysis on epidemiological data and […]
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Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to “securely connect” ChatGPT with Plaid – the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, […]
Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to “manipulate” its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: “In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content […]
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t have our phone – but we do have some fresh doubts about the company’s patriotic credentials. This has been a momentous […]
Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” is run by Claude, “OpenAIR” by ChatGPT, “Backlink Broadcast” by Google’s Gemini, and “Grok and Roll […]