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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

The deal marks one of the largest seed rounds — or first funding rounds — in Silicon Valley history, representing the massive investor appetite to back promising new AI labs....

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Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

The feature will appear on iOS and Android in the U. , with a focus on trending lifestyle topics like sports and entertainment. Google also noted the feature will make...

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Military AI contracts awarded to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI

The Pentagon has opened the military AI floodgates and handed out contracts worth up to $800 million to four of the biggest names: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI....

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Mistral’s Voxtral goes beyond transcription with summarization, speech-triggered functions

Mistral's open-source speech model Voxtral can recognize multiple languages, understand spoken instructions and also offer enterprise security.

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OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’

Scientists from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta unite in rare collaboration to warn that a critical window for monitoring AI reasoning may close forever as models learn to hide their...

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Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’

Backed by $2B and with OpenAI’s open-weight model now in limbo, Thinking Machines could capture developer attention and interest.

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India eyes global quantum computer push — and QpiAI is its chosen vehicle

QpiAI, an Indian startup that integrates AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $32 million in a new funding round co-led by the Indian government.

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OpenAI unveils ‘ChatGPT agent’ that gives ChatGPT its own computer to autonomously use your email and web apps, download and create files for you

If a website needs you to log in, you can do that securely through a special browser view, which lets the agent dig deeper and handle more.

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Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice

Meta will not sign the EU's new rules, calling the implementation "over-reach".

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Netflix starts using GenAI in its shows and films

Netflix said it used gen AI for the first time for a scene in an Argentinean show called El Atonata.