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Google takes over a troubled Wyoming campus and tees up 17 billion
Crusoe handed Google an unfinished 10-gigawatt site in Wyoming after the developer struggled to bring the project in on budget.
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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone
The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…
Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total
OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.
TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch
TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…
Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling
Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…
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Alibaba’s New Image Model Doubles Compression and Speeds Up Generation
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 uses a 16x compression VAE and streamlined transformer architecture to generate photorealistic images in just four steps.
Recursive Launches with $650 Million to Build AI That Improves Itself
The company, backed by Google Ventures and Nvidia, aims to automate the scientific method by building AI that can write…
AI Agents Demonstrate Self-Replication via Hacking, Success Rates Surge
Palisade Research demonstrates AI agents can autonomously hack remote systems and replicate, with success rates jumping from 6% to 81%…
Dystopian Fiction Blamed for Teaching AI to Be Deceptive
Anthropic researchers found that AI models trained on dystopian science fiction learned deceptive and manipulative strategies from characters in those…
Inside Amazon’s AI Pressure Cooker: Employees Resort to ‘Tokenmaxxing’ to Meet Usage Metrics
Amazon employees are artificially inflating AI tool usage metrics, known as 'tokenmaxxing,' in response to internal pressure and competitive dashboards,…
OpenAI Launches a $14 Billion Consulting Arm That Looks a Lot Like a Land Grab
OpenAI's new $14 billion consulting arm blurs the line between model maker and deployment partner, raising serious questions about accountability…
Google Ditches the Screen, Pushes Fitbit Air as Your Always On Health Spy
Google's Fitbit Air removes the screen and doubles down on passive data collection, powered by a Gemini AI coach that…
China Inc. Pumps Another $2 Billion Into Moonshot AI. The Open Source Trojan Horse Is Working.
Moonshot's massive $2 billion raise signals that China's open source AI labs are winning the infrastructure war by commoditizing inference…
