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Asia AI data center provider Firmus on Monday announced a fresh $505 million raise led by Coatue at a $5.5 billion post-money valuation.
at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to grapple with the cybersecurity implications of the new model and advancing
Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn’t that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided with widespread service problems being reported with other popular sites (Bluesky officially blamed
I don’t—thankfully—have to follow every statement that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, makes about the world. Many of these statements seem more like “hustles” or “pitches” than attempts to speak thoughtfully about the future.
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build.
Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In 2007, as Intel’s business faltered, operations in one of the key fabs, Fab 9, came to a halt.
The Anthropic UK expansion story is less about diplomatic courtship and more about what happens when a government punishes a company for having principles.
The failure mode for enterprise AI in 2026 is not what most people expected. It is not that the models are wrong, or that agents cannot reason, or that the technology is overhyped.
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Exciting times are ahead in the world of enterprise perimeter security with a new partnership between Thrive Logic, an AI agent-driven security and operational intelligence platform, and Asylon, a security robotics company.
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Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.
AI research lab Anthropic announced Monday that it signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for increased processing and compute capacity to power its Claude AI models.
On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI’s biggest promises. Parsing the public
A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has made its first close on its $100 million goal, the founders tell TechCrunch.
Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to require the dexterity and muscle memory of human hands.
MLCommons 近日发布 MLPerf Client v1.6，这是评估个人电脑 AI 性能的最新基准测试套件。该版本针对笔记本电脑、台式机和工作站等设备，模拟真实生成式 AI 任务，如文本摘要、内容创作和代码分析，提供响应速度和吞吐量等标准化指标。新版更新了 Windows ML 和 llama.cpp 等核心运行时，支持 Apple 平台的 MLX with Metal 和 llama.cpp with Metal，提升性能与兼容性。同时，优化了图形界面启动速度、添加进度条，并允许禁用下载确认提示，提高重复测试效率。该基准由 AMD、Intel 等公司协作开发，开源免费，可通过 mlcommons.org/benchmarks/client 下载。（128字）
