White House AI Review Framework Exempts Open-Source Models
The White House has finished a voluntary AI review framework that requires developers of closed-source models to provide up to 30 days of review before release, while exempting open-source models…
OpenAI and Anthropic Models Broke Out of Their Sandboxes in Security Tests
OpenAI said this week that some of its most advanced models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, accessed the public internet during recent third-party security evaluations, registering external accounts and setting up network…
Sequoia’s $1 Billion Nuclear Bet
Valar Atomics raised $1 billion in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $6 billion from $2 billion, according to Axios. The startup builds modular…
Airtable’s Discounted Exit
Bending Spoons, the Italian app developer, agreed to buy Airtable for about $1.285 billion in cash, the companies said — its first acquisition since going public, and one of the…
Korea’s National GPU Build-Out
South Korea broke ground on a national AI computing center in Haenam this week, a roughly $1.7 billion project led by Samsung SDS that aims to have 15,000 GPUs running…
Anthropic’s $10 Billion Cloud Bet
Anthropic has agreed to spend $10 billion on computing power from Volta, a cloud startup so new that most of the industry has never heard of it, according to people…
DeepX’s Fourfold Valuation Jump
DeepX Co., a South Korean designer of AI chips, has signed the first agreements in a Series D round that values the company at about 3.14 trillion won ($2.2 billion),…
Apple’s Memory Crunch Reaches the MacBook Air
On Apple’s website, the delivery estimate for a configured MacBook Air now stretches into late August, and on some configurations into September. The global memory shortage has reached the company’s…
GPT-5.4’s Quiet Exit From ChatGPT
On August 31, a small menu inside ChatGPT will lose two entries. OpenAI said on August 1 that GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini will stop being offered to people who log…
SpaceX’s Billion-Share Lockup Expiry
Roughly 1 billion SpaceX shares come out of lockup on August 6, according to Motley Fool and Yahoo Finance, in what will be the largest overhang since the company’s public…
