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OpenAI Group PBC has publicly pushed back against a lawsuit that Apple Inc. filed against it last month. The ChatGPT developer outlined its arguments in a blog post published on Monday. The move came shortly after Apple submitted a new court filing …
DigitalOcean tops second quarter expectations amid surging AI demand
DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. today posted second quarter earnings that topped analyst expectations across the board. The company also raised its third quarter guidance. DigitalOcean launched in 2011 to provide an alternative to the industry’s three leading public clouds. The company says that …
Convex reels in $57M for its AI-optimized application backend
Developer tooling startup Convex Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $57 million funding round led by Insight Partners. Etna Labs, Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital also contributed to the Series B investment. It brings Convex’s total outside funding to $110.5 …
June launches with $20M to speed up enterprise software projects
June.ai Technologies Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to modernize enterprise software environments, launched today with $20 million in funding. The pre-seed round was led by Time Ventures with participation from SV Angel, Vesey Ventures and other funds. They were joined …
Netflix co-founder backs $312M round for optical inference appliance maker Olix
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Olix Computing Ltd. today announced that it has raised $312 million in funding. The Series C round included contributions from Arm Holding plc, Netflix Inc. co-founder Reed Hastings and several others. Olix is now valued at $3.3 billion, …
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.8-Max model with 2.4T parameters
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today debuted a new addition to its Qwen series of open-source large language models. Qwen3.8-Max is the Chinese e-commerce giant’s most capable LLM to date. It features 2.4 trillion parameters, about seven times more than the Qwen3.5 model …
NXP reportedly in talks to acquire vehicle chip supplier Ambarella
NXP Semiconductors NV is reportedly in talks to buy Ambarella Inc., a fellow provider of vehicle chips. The Financial Times today cited sources as saying that other industry players could also make bids. The report didn’t divulge any other details, notably what …
Anthropic discloses that Claude hacked three organizations during internal tests
Three of Anthropic PBC’s large language models carried out successful cyberattacks during routine internal tests. The company detailed the breaches on Thursday. A few days earlier, rival OpenAI Group PBC disclosed a similar incident. Two of the company’s LLMs escaped from an isolated …
Nscale buys AI infrastructure optimization startup Anyscale for reported $1.65B
Data center builder Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Anyscale Inc., a venture-backed provider of artificial intelligence software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bloomberg cited a source as saying that Nscale is paying $1.65 billion. In March, …
Google DeepMind debuts Gemini Robotics 2 model series for humanoid robots
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab today debuted a family of models optimized to power humanoid robots. Google DeepMind says that the Gemini Robotics 2 series enables multiple autonomous machines to collaborate on a task. According to the company, it can automate …