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A group of economists and tech industry figures has called on policymakers to address the risks posed by artificial intelligence more directly. The signatories outlined their concerns in a public letter published today. The initiative was organized by economics professors Erik Brynjolfsson, …
Apple sues OpenAI, former employees over alleged intellectual property theft
Apple Inc. today sued OpenAI Group PBC for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to its consumer devices. The iPhone maker filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. OpenAI entered the consumer electronics market last year …
EU finds that Meta breached bloc’s rules with its social network interfaces
The European Union has tentatively found that Meta Platforms Inc. breached the bloc’s DSA tech industry law. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, published its conclusions today. The DSA, or Digital Services Act, is a piece of legislation that went into …
Open-source AI model developer MiniMax raises $2B in funding
MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising $2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale of newly issued shares. According to the publication, the company will …
Autonomous ship startup Kraken raises $175M at $1B valuation
Kraken Technology Group Ltd., a British defense startup that makes autonomous ships, has raised $175 million in funding. Private equity firm DTCP led the Series B deal. It was joined by the U.K. government’s British Business Bank, the NATO Innovation Fund and …
Meta launches flagship Muse Spark 1.1 model with multi-agent upgrades
Meta Platforms Inc. today launched a new flagship large language model optimized to power multi-agent automation workflows. Muse Spark 1.1 is available in the company’s Meta AI chatbot service and via an application programming interface. The Meta Model API, as it’s aptly …
AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation
Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal has drawn $400 million worth of interest from prospective investors. The group …
Prime Intellect raises $130M at $1B valuation for its AI training platform
Artificial intelligence training startup Prime Intellect Inc. has raised $130 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures, Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital. They were joined by more than a dozen others, including Cloudflare …
OpenAI launches GPT-Live voice model series ahead of broad GPT-5.6 release
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-Live, a family of artificial intelligence models optimized to process spoken instructions. The model series will power ChatGPT’s voice mode. Additionally, OpenAI plans to make it available to developers via an application programming interface. GPT-Live includes two …
Inference chip startup SambaNova valued at $11B in $1B funding round
Chip startup SambaNova Inc. today announced that it has raised $1 billion in funding at a $11 billion valuation. General Atlantic led the Series F round with contributions from more than a dozen others. Intel Capital, Vista Equity Partners and JPMorgan Chase …