OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
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Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
The iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.
Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot
Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control?
Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first funding round
Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapp...
OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down
The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser.
Market data platform startup Databento closes $97M round after drawing $300M in investor demand
Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor deman...
Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5
Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
Data sovereignty emerges as the defining moat in the agentic AI era
As agentic AI accelerates enterprise transformation, data sovereignty is crystallizing from a compliance checkbox into a foundational strategic imperative — one that determines not just where dat...
The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers
The soft, oddly intimate home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.
The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia’s AI ‘Fuckup Finder’
A single wording mistake cost the government millions. Now Estonia is using AI to spot legal errors before they become law—and to automate more of the state.
Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.
Canadian government proposing ‘massive’ increase in AI data centre capacity
Canada currently has about 337 megawatts of AI data centre capacity, and there are more than 20 gigawatts, or 20,000 megawatts in projects that are "under planning or development."
I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.
Microsoft to lay off another 4,800 workers, including Xbox gaming division
Microsoft said on Monday it would cut 4,800 jobs, or about two per cent of its global workforce, including its Xbox gaming business.
Saskatchewan startups turning to AI to start businesses, accelerate growth
Local tech startups based in Saskatoon say artificial intelligence is helping them develop and scale their businesses much faster than imagined.
Green light for Greenlight: Pembina, partners go ahead with gas plant for data centre
Pembina Pipeline Corp. and its partners have given the go-ahead to a $4.2 billion, 932-megawatt natural gas plant being built to serve a new data centre in Sturgeon County.
StirlingX raises $20M for sovereign data intelligence platform
British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised $20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data int...
AWS turbocharges log analytics in Amazon OpenSearch Service at no extra cost
Amazon Web Services Inc. is reinventing the way data-intensive analytical workloads are handled by the Amazon OpenSearch Service with the launch of a new, purpose-built log analytics engine today. ...
Couchbase’s AI Data Plane aims to turn fragmented data into real enterprise agent memory
Couchbase Inc. is trying to solve one of the hardest problems in enterprise artificial intelligence today: turning brittle, chat-style pilots into production-grade agents capable of remembering, re...