AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup’s valuation from just four months ago.
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.
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
Christophe Fouquet has built Europe’s biggest business through a total monopoly over the most advanced chipmaking equipment
Dinner hints at rapprochement between US president and chief executive of leading AI lab
How personal branding can future-proof your career in the AI economy
The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sandhya Venkatachalam, founder and managing partner of Axiom Partners, discusses why she looks beyond familiar founder profiles, what makes an AI company durable, and how an early investment in Groq shaped her approach.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Google Research has introduced an AI video co-director for long-form video generation. The suite of 4 agentic frameworks turns short clips into coherent, minutes-long stories. It targets identity drift and cascading errors, the 2 failures that break most multi-shot AI video pipelines today. Why Long AI Videos Fall Apart Diffusion models render high-fidelity clips in […]
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TypeSafe AI’s Jev skips text generation and returns typed decisions with calibrated probabilities. Input costs $0.042 per million tokens and output is free. We verified 20 agentic use cases, from model routing and tool-call gating to reranking and injection screening, and compared Jev with its closest open and LLM rivals.
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Fireworks AI has released Ember-1, a post-trained Kimi K3 that learns to produce shorter reasoning traces instead of lowering reasoning effort. Fireworks reports about 40% fewer tokens, with output tokens per task falling from 49.3K to 29.9K in a production A/B test at an essentially unchanged score. Ember-1 is available now as an API-only Research Preview at Kimi K3 pricing.
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A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic’s systems
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 […]
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 […]
On Equity, we discussed how Meta’s AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
Deputy prime minister is an unabashed evangelist for the technology even as some fear it could pose catastrophic risks
Multinationals evaluating countries’ approach to AI before making expansion plans, say executives
Just because a bot can do something for you doesn’t mean it should
The nature of the AI boom and the size of valuations make the contrast between ambition and income more striking
A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research’s Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluators, and analyze multi-task benchmark performance.
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We read the contracts behind GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, Cursor, Devin and Windsurf. Copilot and Kiro offer uncapped indemnity on generated code. Cognition’s standard terms exclude outputs entirely. Here is how 500 seats compare on legal exposure, prompt storage, audit logs and true cost.
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The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies’ costly AI resources
Supersonic Labs has released Julia 1, a 144.3M-parameter decision model built on mmBERT-small. It takes context, a question, and 2 to 20 options, then returns one choice with probabilities. The model runs on a CPU and ships under Apache 2.0. It beat Jev reference values on 3 of 4 pilots but trailed on the 72-label Banking77 test.
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Sarvam AI’s Saaras V4 is a speech-to-text model covering all 22 Indian languages plus global English. It pairs an audio encoder with a 3B hybrid state-space decoder. It adds keyterm prompting for up to 50 terms, 5 output modes from 1 model, and streaming with first-token latency under 150 ms. It is available today through Sarvam’s API at ₹30 per hour.
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Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it […]