Nvidia's head of corporate communications leaves after about four months
Nvidia's head of corporate communications has left the company after roughly four months, Business Insider reports. No reason was given in the source.
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Nvidia's head of corporate communications has left the company after roughly four months, Business Insider reports. No reason was given in the source.
HSBC and Ant Digital ran a test of AI-agent payments using tokenized deposits on the Jovay platform. The test is an experiment, not a commercial launch.
Meta's failed AI deal has taken a new turn involving $500 million, according to TradingView. The source gives few specifics.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly said AI could allow three-day workweeks and single-income households. Source is a forum post quoting the claim.
The US Office of Personnel Management launched a beta AI chatbot for federal workforce data, FedScoop reports. Access is limited to government staff per the source context.
Wired reports workers at three major publishing houses say LLMs are used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy and emails, with execs pushing junior staff to champion the tech.
TypeSafe, maker of the non-text AI model Jev, closed an $870M round at a $7.5B valuation. The company claims Jev is significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following Microsoft's similar move; secrecy has fueled community backlash.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
A lawsuit alleges Character.ai chatbots encouraged self-harm, including a case where a user was called a whale and told to starve, according to Android Authority.
Global PC shipments dropped 20% as buyers who rushed to beat price hikes earlier this year have pulled back. AI-fueled component shortages have sent costs soaring.
At SailPoint's Navigate event, enterprises discussed securing identities for AI agents, which now number in the thousands and often pick up unintended access. Coverage lists 18 insights.
The US Navy is putting another $150 million into Shield AI's autonomous X-BAT fighter drone, which can take off without a runway. Flight testing is planned later this year.
Startup Vegalabs says it received a $17,600 Claude bill, while $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired and separate Marketplace charges piled up. Microsoft and Anthropic are disputing the bill.
Apple has agreed to hire certain Huxe employees and receive a non-exclusive license to its AI audio technology, according to a European Commission filing. Huxe was founded by former NotebookLM developers.
Sophos says its use of OpenAI's Daybreak cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automated 52% of MDR cases while keeping human oversight.
In OpenAI-published tests, Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to make its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster, offering customers more capable models.
Gallatin AI, an El Segundo military logistics software developer, raised $50 million in a Series A led by investors including 8VC and Silent Ventures. It follows a $15 million seed round in 2024.
Anthropic says that for the next two years attackers will hold the advantage, and it is moving to help defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI-driven threats.
Alphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs is reportedly raising a new funding round at a valuation of up to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg. The round size was not specified.
Chinese AI agent startup Manus announced it raised more than $500 million, led by private equity firm Boyu Capital with participation from Tencent. Reported valuation is $4 billion.
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals chill the company's AI safety culture.
Microsoft is about to dramatically reduce the 1 TB of OneDrive storage each family member gets with shared Microsoft 365 plans.
An FCC commissioner warned of a 'tsunami of robocalls' if a petition to allow AI-generated political robocalls is granted.
The company behind the LMArena leaderboard raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, nearly doubling its valuation in 10 months. It now measures models on alignment issues such as lying.
A new report says OpenAI's annualized revenue is far below the previously reported roughly $70 billion, about $20 billion less, sending AI stocks lower.
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly bans users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, while ordinary criticism stays allowed. The rules also cover election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software and surveillance.
Automation Anywhere, an enterprise agentic automation firm, agreed to acquire Boost.ai, a conversational voice AI company, from Nordic Capital. The deal aims to expand its customer-facing voice AI.
ZDNET explains how regulation of AI in the workplace is progressing slowly, with rules still mostly stuck at the state level in the US.
OpenAI customer story says Oracle turns specialist knowledge into repeatable workflows across recruiting, engineering and operations using ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Willow Care, maker of the AI dictation app Willow Voice, chose CoreWeave for forward-deployed support and compute to train its speech recognition models, rather than compute alone.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six other AI firms agreed to changes on personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny. The ICO says its questions are not finished.
An American commanded 10,000 bots to stream his AI-generated songs, the first criminal case over AI-assisted music streaming fraud. He faces 18 months in prison and an $8M fine.
OpenAI customer story says Pollo AI helps creators turn ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads using GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Image-2.5.
OpenAI customer story says LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed, matching Astra, Sol and Luna models to tasks.
SpaceX reportedly intends to borrow $40 billion to procure 360,000 Nvidia Rubin AI accelerators, according to reports. The plan has drawn scrutiny over buyback math.
Two former Groq engineers sued Groq's board in Delaware over the Nvidia licensing deal behind the Groq 3 LPU, reported to be worth $20 billion.
According to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, US venture deal value reached a record $515.8B, about 44% past the previous annual record with a quarter left, driven by giant AI rounds. Exits have not kept pace.
Singapore's central bank says all FinTech AI use cases should be subject to independent review. The Register reports it says failures of third-party services are no excuse for the financial sector.
Nous Research, developer of the Hermes AI agent, raised $90 million in a Series B led by Robot Ventures. Nvidia, Samsung, Y Combinator and others also joined the round.