Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8 Max AI model, challenging Anthropic’s dominance
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8 Max AI model, challenging Anthropic's dominance
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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8 Max AI model, challenging Anthropic's dominance
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Tech employees clash with executives over light-touch AI regulation; OpenAI staff and co-founder Greg Brockman spar over political spending.
aipoliticalbusinessElon Musk admits he underestimated Anthropic's AI, a development that Amazon and Alphabet investors should take notice of.
aitechbusinessDeepMind's CEO is calling for US-led frontier AI tests
aitechpoliticalOpenAI Policy Chief Dean Ball calls open weight AI a dystopian hellscape.
aitechMeta's fast-tracked gas plants in Ohio spotlight the hidden energy cost of AI
aitechbusinessengineeringYang Zhilin, co-founder of Moonshot AI (maker of Kimi), born 1992 in Shantou, China; studied CS at Tsinghua, PhD at Carnegie Mellon.@marcthecreatorraitechresearch
Meta is putting its in-house Iris AI chip into production in September, part of a plan to double its computing capacity to 14 gigawatts.
aitechengineeringbusinessTrump Administration seeks control over who gets OpenAI and Anthropic's most powerful AI models, report says.
aipoliticaltechAnthropic and OpenAI accuse Chinese AI companies of 'distillation'; billionaire Chamath Palihapitiy responds.
aitechMeta and Anthropic discuss $10B AI infrastructure agreement.
aitechfundingbusinessAI chip startup Etched is in talks for a $20 billion valuation
aitechfundingDatabricks hits $188B valuation, has remade its image into an AI company and published research on cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
aitechfundingbusinessJobs in occupations most exposed to AI increased by 4%, according to Chicago Fed.
aibusinesschicagoresearchDavid Sacks says US is 'tying itself in knots' over AI, risking its edge, after Chinese startup Moonshot AI released new model Kimi K3.
aitechpoliticalLatest Chinese AI model reaffirms OpenAI and Anthropic need to continue to invest, says Creative Strategies CEO
aitechNuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation, amid trend of multi-stage rounds masking true entry prices.
fundingtechbusinessMeta spends $145B on AI, pays $14.3B for one Scale AI hire, renames AI division Superintelligence Labs, signs $100B AMD chip deal, $27B Blue Owl data center deal; Reality Labs lost $90B+@k1rallikaitechfundingbusiness
Top 10 AI/ICT/Robotics roundup: Weave Robotics launches Isaac, a mobile humanoid robot for household/office use; Japanese robotics firms team with Nvidia against China; Monumental secures...@ivke2006aitechengineering
TSMC raises outlook: expects $60-64B annual capex, projects 40%+ YoY revenue growth, reported 77.4% increase in quarterly net income.@MTSlivebusinesstechengineering
OpenAI, Google, Meta and others donated to both parties' attorney general groups as AGs move to regulate AI. xAI also contributed.
aipoliticalfundingbusinessKey takeaways on AI contracting from Loeb & Loeb's AI Summit held in Chicago
aichicagoeventsbusinessAI startups are taking huge seed funding, making it harder for pre-seed founders; TechCrunch Disrupt session addresses getting pre-seed funding without a product.
aifundingeventsOpenAI's CFO pitches a new way to measure AI's value
aibusinessA $400 million chip-backed loan signals the next wave of AI infrastructure deals as GPU financiers turn to inference chips.
aitechfundingbusinessAI is becoming a commodity, posing a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to WSJ.
aitechbusinessOpenAI launches Codex Micro, a physical keypad for controlling AI agents.@Waivlyaitech
FIS and Anthropic expand partnership to apply frontier AI to financial infrastructure security.
aitechbusinessOpenAI shipped 150+ Codex updates in 2 months, including parallel agents: one researches, one writes content, one checks quality, one builds the page.@JulianGoldieSEOaitechengineering
AI-generated submission won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize, sparking discussion on Hacker News
aitechresearchApple sues OpenAI and New York imposes AI data center moratorium, per The Social Skinny roundup.
aitechpoliticalbusinessAI hardware startup Aina raises $5.5 million in a round led by Redstart Labs and 360 ONE Asset
aitechfundingNewsletter: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab drops open-weight AI model Inkling under Apache 2.0 license, no restrictions. Also: 10.7X LLM inference speedup via LMCache.@rohanpaul_aiaitechengineeringresearch
Epic Games will let Fortnite creators publish experiences with AI-powered voice characters starting July 30th, with 36 characters already created.
aitechNetflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI, mostly in post-production, per its Q2 earnings report released Thursday.
aitechbusinessOpenAI's head of compute predicts AI will design its own systems and chips
aitechengineeringIdentity security market sees startup funding, M&A and channel expansion, per Biometric Update.
fundingbusinesstechEd Zitron says the AI bubble is an OpenAI bubble, calling the ChatGPT maker the Lehman Brothers of AI.
aibusinessMira Murati releases her first AI model after leaving OpenAI, and it's fully open source
aitechNY Governor Kathy Hochul says her team is using AI to analyze every rule, regulation, and policy in the state to check for outdated ones.
aipoliticalOpenAI employees contributed over $245,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC countering Leading the Future, funded partly by OpenAI President Greg Brockman.
aipoliticalbusinessfundingArticle on detecting LLM-generated texts using classical machine learning methods, discussed on Hacker News with 163 points and 110 comments.
aitechresearchengineeringTravel agency Fora raised a $60 million Series D led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
aifundingbusinessDoorDash opens limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool letting developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal.
aitechengineeringFormer DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product; explains why visual AI is a next AI frontier.
aifundingtechresearchSheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection startup, founded in 2021, using smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.
aitechfundingbusinessTeraWulf's $19B Anthropic lease puts its brownfield AI strategy to the test
aibusinessfundingAMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun, of Yann LeCun's world model startup, dismisses the term "superintelligence" while others in AI chase it.
aitech2 local startups captured 75% of Pittsburgh's $70M in venture funding for Q2
fundingtechbusinessAndreessen Horowitz backs a startup aiming to 'parent' AI agents, according to The Information.
aitechfundinglogcat.ai raises $2.55M to put agents to work on device operating systems
aitechfundingengineeringPrediction market startup Pascal raises $9 million to challenge heavyweights Kalshi and Polymarket
fundingtechbusinessUltrahuman's former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you.
aitechfundingBirju Shah argues requiring AI audits makes sense, but says Illinois legislators got the order of things wrong.
aipoliticalchicagoChina and AI led Asia's startup funding to a multiyear peak in Q2
aifundingbusinessGoogle DeepMind expands biosecurity effort amid AI safety push
airesearchPharma AI startup Katalyze raises $10.5M to explore whether agentic AI can work on the pharma plant floor.
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