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Pathway Raises $30M Seed at $500M Valuation
AI research company Pathway raised a $30M seed round at a $500M valuation while developing models built on its proprietary "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture.
Chinese More Optimistic About AI Than Americans
A Bloomberg report finds Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans, attributing the gap to AI's status as a practical tool in China and its narrower labor disruption footprint there
ChatGPT Web Share Drops 22 Points as Gemini Surges
ChatGPT's share of worldwide AI-chatbot web visits fell 22 percentage points in a year, ceding ground to Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude.
Trace Cohen open-sources AI SEO toolkit behind 4.6M impressions
Trace Cohen open-sourced the AI-driven SEO system that grew ValueAddVC.com from 604K to 4.62M monthly search impressions in 3 months, releasing 14 diagnostic scripts, quality gates, and a GSC feedback
Nvidia scales back funding guarantee for Ohio OpenAI data center, WSJ reports - Reuters
Nvidia is scaling back its $250 billion funding guarantee for an OpenAI data center in Ohio while eyeing a separate $3 billion investment in SoftBank's SB Energy as part of the same deal.
xAI Sued Over Grok Generating 7,000 Explicit Images
A fourth plaintiff has joined a Tennessee lawsuit accusing xAI's Grok chatbot of enabling child sexual abuse material creation, alleging her stepfather used the tool to generate more than 7,000 explic
Web Tool Makes Humans Roleplay as AI Chatbots
Your AI Slop Bores Me is a tongue-in-cheek web tool that swaps AI for humans, letting users either submit prompts or roleplay as a chatbot answering them within 150 seconds.
Nvidia in Talks for $3B in SoftBank's SB Energy
Nvidia is negotiating a potential investment of up to $3 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank-backed data center developer building a major OpenAI campus in Ohio and planning a near-term IPO.
Anthropic Explains How Claude’s Text Watermarks Work
Anthropic detailed how its new text watermarking for Claude works, explaining it uses subtle word choices to tag AI-generated content while maintaining output quality and offering a detection API.
Mercor Fuels Demand for Datasets from Dying Startups
Data-gathering firms like Mercor are buying or licensing the internal datasets of startups that are shutting down or being acquired, creating a new trade in AI training data.
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
SpaceX has officially closed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, folding the company into its GPU-powered compute empire as it ramps up AI infrastructure.
How to check if your ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity account was hacked
TechCrunch published a step-by-step guide showing users how to detect unauthorized logins on ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, revealing stark differences in how each platform handles session visibilit
Anthropic Details Claude Watermark's Key Limitations
Anthropic detailed the inner workings of Claude's text watermark, revealing it only probabilistically indicates Claude's involvement, is sparse in code and factual writing, and disappears entirely aft
AI Coding Still Demands Upfront Design Work
A developer's essay argues AI hasn't eliminated the labor of software building — it has shifted from writing code to designing systems, crafting prompts, and managing context windows and compression.
Anthropic's 'Project Panama' Bulk-Buys Books for AI Training
Independent booksellers worldwide are reporting mysterious bulk purchases of their stock that court documents and experts link to AI training efforts like Anthropic's 'Project Panama,' which destructi
AI Disrupts College Major Decisions
AI is reshaping the skills employers expect from entry-level workers, driving students and parents to search for college majors that will hold up in an AI-powered economy.
Mystery Bulk Orders Hint at AI Training Spree
Secondhand booksellers across the UK, Ireland, and beyond report a surge of unexplained, thematically erratic bulk orders from opaque buyers paying premium prices, fueling speculation that AI companie
Google Pixel 11 Puts Gemini Center Stage, Raises Prices on Memory
Google's Pixel 11 series launched with Gemini AI positioned at the center of its competition with Apple, while a memory shortage forced Google to raise prices — the latest company to do so.
Vals AI Raises $40M Series A at $400M Valuation
San Francisco-based Vals AI, which builds evaluations and benchmarks for testing AI models on real-world tasks, has closed a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $400 million valuation
Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works
Code strings inside Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app point to an upcoming over-ear headphone called the "Galaxy H1" that could launch in 2027, the company's first over-ear headphones since 2015's Level O
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