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Nvidia Corp. is reportedly in talks to backstop a $250 billion loan for OpenAI Group PBC. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited sources as saying that the financing would cover the cost of a new data center campus in Ohio. According …
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with efficiency, safety improvements
Anthropic PBC today rolled out a large language model called Claude Opus 5 to its chatbot service and developer platform. The company says the LLM approaches the output quality of its top-end Mythos 5 algorithm in many areas, but costs significantly less. …
Nvidia, other tech giants caution against open-source AI ban in open letter
A group of tech firms has released an open letter that calls on policymakers not to ban open-source artificial intelligence models. The development follows a report that some Trump administration officials sought to limit the use of such algorithms. Many of the …
Meta makes Muse Spark 1.1 available to consumers, debuts new Facebook features
Meta Platforms Inc. today made its latest large language model available to consumers through its Meta AI chatbot. The update is rolling out alongside several enhancements to Facebook. Meta’s flagship social network is receiving a new video-based account verification tool. Additionally, users …
AI chip startup Etched more than doubles valuation to $10.3B in new $300M round
Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised $300 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Sequoia. SK Hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of memory for AI chips, …
IBM acquires quantum computing research lab HRL
IBM Corp. today announced plans to acquire quantum computing research company HRL Laboratories LLC. IBM is buying the lab from General Motors Co. and Boeing Co. It didn’t disclose the purchase price. The company expects to close the transaction by the end …
Travis Kalanick’s industrial automation startup Atoms raises $1.7B in funding
Atoms, a startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment. The company disclosed in its Wednesday funding announcement that Andreessen Horowitz led the raise. The venture capital firm was joined by more than a half-dozen …
OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the software to power its call center. According to OpenAI, Presence matched help desk representatives’ response quality within a few …
Oracle debuts Base Database Cloud@Customer system for on-premises databases
Oracle Corp. today debuted new infrastructure that enterprises can use to run its flagship database at locations such as branch offices. The system is known as Base Database Cloud@Customer. Oracle already offers several hybrid cloud systems that enable companies to run its …
Anthropic to buy up to 2 gigawatts of GPU capacity from AMD
Anthropic PBC will purchase up to 2 gigawatts’ worth of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a multibillion-dollar deal announced today. The partnership also has several other components. Notably, AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic …