General Intuition in Talks to Raise Funds at $6 Billion Valuation
The company trains robots the way children learn: by playing video games. General Intuition, an AI robotics start-up, is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a…
Bill Gates Warns AI Has Passed Danger Points Society Isn’t Discussing
Bill Gates has spent years as the world’s most prominent optimist about technology, a man who predicted personal computers, the internet, and smartphones before most people saw them coming. In…
Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents
The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…
Data Center Backlash Moves Into the Midterm Campaign
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The sign outside the county commission hearing room said the agenda item was a “data center zoning amendment.” The people who filled the seats were not there…
Apple Cuts More Than 200 Jobs in Siri and Vision Pro Teams
The teams had been shrinking for months, and last week the reductions became explicit. Apple Inc. is eliminating more than 200 positions across the groups working on its Siri assistant…
Broadcom Seeks $60 Billion or More in Debt to Fund Its AI Chip Push
Broadcom is in talks with a group of banks about raising more than $60 billion in new debt, with the total potentially reaching $100 billion, to fund an expansion of…
Anthropic and OpenAI Split Over Massachusetts AI Safety Bill
The two companies that set the pace of the AI industry are publicly fighting each other over how their industry should be regulated, and the fight is happening in a…
Microsoft’s Eight-Month Fix for a Copilot Flaw Renews Security Questions
Microsoft said Wednesday it has patched a critical vulnerability in its Copilot AI assistant, a flaw that security researchers first reported privately eight months ago. The bug, dubbed CoSnitch, could…
Cerebras Bets Inference Can Be 30 Times Faster Without the Switches
Cerebras Systems said Wednesday it has built a new generation of its AI server, the CS-4, that eliminates the switching fabric connecting chips and claims the design makes AI inference…
Nebius Swaps Gas Turbines for Fuel Cells at 300-Megawatt Data Center
Nebius, the AI cloud company, said on Aug. 17 that its 300-megawatt data center in New Jersey will run on Bloom Energy fuel cells instead of gas turbines, a switch…
