Modal slashes GPU cold start times from over 2,000 seconds to just 50 seconds using a breakthrough combination of cloud-buffered idle GPUs, lazy-loading filesystems, CPU memory snapshotting, and CUDA checkpoint/restore, delivering 4-10x faster serverless inference for LLM workloads across hundreds of organizations.
Desperate Hollywood screenwriters are secretly training the very AI replacing them, taking on soul-crushing gig contracts across multiple platforms just to survive, exposing a brutal irony as the entertainment industry weaponizes creative talent to accelerate its own workforce displacement.
Celonis launches a real-time digital twin of business operations called the Celonis Context Model and acquires MIT-founded AI firm Ikigai Labs, combining live operational data with predictive AI to help enterprises like AstraZeneca and Mercedes make smarter, faster decisions.
Hollywood heavyweights Cate Blanchett, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep are backing a groundbreaking new 'Human Consent Standard' that embeds creator consent directly into digital works, forcing AI crawlers to respect artists' rights — even as struggling screenwriters quietly turn to AI training jobs to survive.
Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, potentially valuing the AI company behind Claude at over $900 billion in what could be its largest funding round yet.
The New York Times bans freelancers from using AI tools like ChatGPT and image generators after a series of scandals, including a contributor who used chatbots to write a personal essay, a freelancer fired for AI-generated plagiarism, and a staff reporter whose published piece contained an AI-fabricated quote from a …
Anthropic launches 20+ legal MCP connectors integrating Claude with major platforms like Docusign and Thomson Reuters, rolls out 12 specialized practice-area plugins for legal workflows, and expands access to underserved communities through partnerships with legal aid and nonprofit organizations.
Meta employees are fighting back against newly installed mouse-tracking software, plastering protest flyers across U.S. offices and launching a petition that invokes federal labor protections, as the company defends the surveillance tool as essential for training AI agents.
DeepSeek's valuation more than doubles to $45 billion as the Chinese AI lab enters talks for its first-ever VC round, led by a Chinese state fund with Tencent and Alibaba also in discussions, signaling China's aggressive push to build homegrown AI rivaling the U.S.
AI's explosive growth faces a critical hardware bottleneck lasting years, even as Apple shatters its AI exclusivity by letting 1.2 billion iPhone users choose rival models like Gemini and Claude, DeepSeek rockets to a $45 billion valuation, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun launches a $1 billion bet against large language …