A Startup Raises $10 Million to Police AI Output Before It Reaches Customers
Kumesh Aroomoogan has raised venture money before, but nothing like this. The chief executive of ZeroDrift, a New York startup that sits between AI systems and their users to catch…
MiniMax Pushes Open-Weight Models Into the Agentic Frontier
The release notes landed on a Monday, and within days the weight files were on Hugging Face for anyone to download. MiniMax, the Chinese AI company best known for its…
OpenAI Steps Into the Physical World, One Job Posting at a Time
The post went up on X late on a Sunday, and the tech industry spent the next day parsing it. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, announced that OpenAI Robotics was…
SoftBank Overtakes Toyota as Japan’s Most Valuable Company
The ticker at the Tokyo Stock Exchange told the story that hundreds of analysts had been expecting. On June 1, SoftBank Group’s market capitalization edged past Toyota Motor’s, making the…
Nvidia’s Cosmos 3 Teaches AI to Predict a Physical World
The robot arm in the simulation reaches for a box, knocks it slightly off balance, recovers and tries again. Nothing in the video is real, but everything about it is…
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra Takes Aim at the MacBook Pro
The announcement came during Nvidia’s Computex presentation, a sign of how intertwined the two companies have become. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra on May 31, its most powerful laptop…
Salesforce Buys Contentful, Betting Content Is the Missing AI Layer
The deal had been discussed for years inside both companies, and on June 1 it finally closed on paper. Salesforce announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful,…
Anthropic Opens Mythos to Europe as the AI Act’s Teeth Arrive
The model is so capable at breaking into systems that its maker kept it on a short leash, and now Europe is negotiating for access. Anthropic has offered the European…
Nvidia Puts an AI Agent on Every Desktop
The pitch from Jensen Huang was characteristically grand. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work,”…
AI Agents Are Outgrowing the Permissions Their Employers Gave Them
The scenario plays out in enterprise security teams with growing frequency. A company deploys an AI agent to help employees draft emails, update customer records and summarize documents. The agent…
