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Nvidia makes ‘significant’ investment in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines
Nvidia Corp. has made a “significant investment” in artificial intelligence developer Thinking Machines Lab Inc. as part of a partnership that the companis announced today. The size of the cash infusion was not disclosed. However, the companies did reveal that Thinking Machines will purchase billions of dollars’ worth of hardware from Nvidia as part of the ...
Yann LeCun’s new startup AMI Labs raises $1.03B to train world models
AMI Labs, a new startup co-founded by artificial intelligence pioneer Yann LeCun, today announced that it has raised $1.03 billion in funding. The seed round was jointly led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions and several unnamed backers. They were joined by more than a dozen others, including Nvidia ...
Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 E7 subscription with expanded AI features
Microsoft Corp. today introduced a new subscription that bundles its productivity applications with artificial intelligence and cybersecurity features. The Microsoft 365 E7 plan, as the offering is called, is priced at $99 per user per month. It’s mainly geared towards large organizations. E7 includes a heavily upgraded version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI assistant ...
AI cloud startup Nscale raises $2B in funding at $14.6B valuation
Nscale Global Holdings Ltd., a London-based data center startup, today announced that it has raised $2 billion in funding. The Series C round was jointly led by Norwegian energy company Aker ASA and 8090 Industries. They were joined by Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc., Nokia Corp. and several others. Nscale is now valued at $14.6 ...
Anthropic sues to scrap Trump administration’s Claude ban
Anthropic PBC is challenging the Trump administration’s recent decision to restrict the use of its software in the public sector. The artificial intelligence developer first announced its intent to litigate last month. Today, it filed two complaints with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the federal appeals court in Washington, ...
Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace with third-party cloud services
Anthropic PBC today launched an e-commerce store that will enable enterprise customers to buy software from third parties. The Claude Marketplace features services that use the company’s eponymous large language model series. The initial catalog includes products from six partners: Snowflake Inc., GitLab Inc., Harvey AI Corp., Rogo Inc., Replit Inc. and Lovable Labs Inc. ...
OpenAI introduces Codex Security to help developers fix software vulnerabilities
OpenAI Group PBC today debuted Codex Security, a new tool in its Codex programming assistant that can help developers find and fix code vulnerabilities. The launch comes two weeks after Anthropic PBC introduced a competing product. Claude Code Security can analyze an application’s code base, identify vulnerabilities and suggest fixes. Codex Security works in a ...
Anthropic says it’s in ‘productive’ discussions with Pentagon about Claude but still plans to sue on ban
Anthropic PBC has shared an update about its artificial intelligence safety feud with the Pentagon. In a Thursday blog post, Chief Executive Dario Amodei stated that the company has been “having productive conversations” with defense officials. He also addressed several other aspects of the disagreement. Last June, Anthropic PBC won a contract to provide the ...
Hardware testing startup Nominal raises $80M at $1B valuation
Engineering software startup Nominal Inc. today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. Founders Fund led the Series B-2 investment. It was joined by Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Red Glass. The deal comes less than a year after Nominal’s previous raise. Complex physical ...
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with computer vision, tool use enhancements
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that it says is more adept at automating work tasks than its earlier algorithms. GPT-5.4 is available in ChatGPT, the Codex programming tool and OpenAI’s application programming interface. The company bills API users based on the number of tokens that its LLMs process while generating ...