After data breach, $10B-valued startup Mercor is having a month
Six months ago, Mercor was flying high after raising a massive $350 million Series C that valued the AI data training startup at $10 billion.
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Six months ago, Mercor was flying high after raising a massive $350 million Series C that valued the AI data training startup at $10 billion.
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced Thursday that his office planned to investigate OpenAI over the alleged role of ChatGPT in a deadly shooting last year. In April 2025, a gunman opened fire on Florida State University’s campus, killing two and injuring five.
The AI company Anthropic released a 244-page “system card” (PDF) this week describing its newest model, Claude Mythos.
OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan.
its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.The effort seems to mark a shift in OpenAI’s legislati
The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years. But when Meta threw its weight behind Llama, something shifted.
launched its first generative AI model, called Muse Spark, earlier this week. It is currently available through the Meta AI app, but the company plans to integrate Muse Spark across all of its platforms—including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—in the coming weeks.Meta claims that Muse Spark was d
Next-generation AI assistants being developed in the Apple ecosystem and by chipmakers like Qualcomm, but early reports suggest they are being designed with limits in place.Tom’s Guide has described early versions of these assistants as capable of navigating apps, carrying out bookings, and managing
I. We had crash-landed on the planet. We were far from home. The spaceship could not be repaired, and the rescue beacon had failed. Besides me, only the astrogator, part of the captain, and the ship’s AI mind were left. Outside, the atmosphere registered as hostile to most organisms.
to lose a good man is not cheating,” begins podcaster Sylvia Brown, “it’s becoming his biggest source of stress.”Since creating an Instagram account in January, she’s gained 110,000 followers as a virtuoso on matters of sex, self-worth, and dating.
the launch of a new product that aims to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy AI agents. The tool, Claude Managed Agents, offers developers out-of-the-box infrastructure to build autonomous AI systems, simplifying a complex process that was previously a barrier to automating work tasks.
Tan said Tuesday that the chipmaker will “work closely” with Elon Musk to support the billionaire entrepreneur's Terafab project, a potentially massive chip development and fabrication operation that will be jointly developed by SpaceX and Tesla.
On Tuesday, Elon Musk amended his lawsuit that accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of abandoning its mission, clarifying that any ill-gotten gains recovered should be returned to the AI firm’s charitable nonprofit arm, not to Musk. Musk “is not seeking a single dollar for himself,” according to
US Army is developing AI models trained on data from real missions, with the goal of deploying a chatbot specifically for soldiers.“We have all of these lessons learned from missions like the Ukraine-Russia War and Operation Epic Fury,” says Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer, in an in
Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier way to discover its large library of more than 300,000 movies and TV episodes. While competitors like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have experimented with AI-powered recomm
announced its first major model since CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebooted the company’s AI efforts last year under a new division called Meta Intelligence Labs.
Meta on Wednesday announced Spark, the first AI model in the Muse family that it says represents “a ground-up overhaul of our AI efforts.” Muse Spark is the first release of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, formed a little less than a year ago with the grandiose goal of “deliver[ing] on the promise of
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in Anthropic, is the type of conflict of interest the cloud giant is used to handling. Garman has worked at Amazon since he was a business school intern in 2005, b
Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That’s the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp. The AI agent Poke launched publicly in March, allowing consumers to access a personal assistant that can take action
satisfied the stringent requirements” to temporarily lose the supply-chain-risk designation imposed by the Pentagon, a US appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled on Wednesday.