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Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI
Databricks Inc. co-founder and Apache Spark creator Andy Konwinski this week announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence research institute called Laude that’s backed with $100 million of his own cash. The computer scientist said in a June 23 blog post that Laude Institute intends to support AI research that has the most potential ...
Judge sides with Anthropic in landmark AI copyright case, but orders it to go on trial over piracy claims
Anthropic PBC scored a major victory for itself and the broader artificial intelligence industry today when a federal judge ruled that it hasn’t broken the law by training its chatbot Claude on hundreds of legally-purchased books that were later digitized without the authors’ permission However, the company is still on the hook for millions of ...
AI startup Context partners with Qualcomm to launch agent-powered autopilot for information-based tasks
A startup called Context Inc. is looking to transform enterprise productivity, unleashing swarms of artificial intelligence agents that it says can automate almost any kind of work-related information task. The startup is the creator of an AI-powered Autopilot launching today that can spin up thousands of AI agents at once to perform work such as ...
Pythagora tries to transform vibe coding with specialized AI agent teams
“Vibe coding” startup Pythagora is looking to take artificial intelligence-powered software development to the next level with the launch of its platform today, saying it will help anyone – including noncoders – to develop full-stack applications with nothing more than a series of prompts. The company says its platform is built for both developers and ...
Ranch automation startup Halter raises $100M to expand into the US
Cow technology startup Halter Inc. has become one of only a handful of New Zealand-based unicorns after closing on a $100 million funding round that values it at $1 billion, it said today. Today’s Series D round, which was led by the technology investment firm Bond Ventures, will help Halter to expand further into the ...
Chatbot startup Decagon gets $131M to build personalized AI agents for every consumer
Decagon AI Inc., a startup that builds artificial intelligence-powered customer service agents for businesses, has closed on its third major funding round in the space of just 12 months, raising $131 million today. The Series C round, which values the company at $1.5 billion, was led by the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Accel ...
Supermicro’s stock falls hard on $2B convertible notes offering
Shares of Super Micro Computer Inc. fell almost 10% on Monday after the company announced a convertible note offering worth $2 billion that’s set to mature in 2030. The company has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of growth in the artificial intelligence industry thanks to soaring demand for the Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units ...
Qualytics gets $10M to use AI to monitor the data for AI
Investors are betting on a startup called Qualytics Inc., which believes it can employ artificial intelligence to make sure that other AI models can access the high-quality data they need to improve their accuracy. The company has just closed on a $10 million Series A funding round, giving it the capital it needs to bring ...
Kubiya’s deterministic composer aims to bring trust, transparency and control to AI agents
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Kubiya Inc. today announced the imminent launch of the industry’s first “deterministic” composer as a way to ensure organizations can fully trust their AI agent deployments. The startup said Kubiya Composer is different to existing probabilistic platforms for managing AI agents, because it offers more structured and predictable orchestration powered by the ...
OpenAI exec warns of growing risk that AI could aid in biological weapons development
An OpenAI executive responsible for artificial intelligence safety has warned that the next generation of the company’s large language models could be used to facilitate the development of deadly bioweapons by individuals with relatively little scientific knowledge. OpenAI Head of Safety Systems Johannes Heidecke made the claim in an interview with Axios, saying that he ...