DeepSeek is seeking $1.5 billion at a $71 billion valuation and eyeing a potential 2027 IPO — possibly as early as this year — just one month after closing a $7 billion round at $50 billion, as the Chinese AI startup surges to nearly 23% of tokens processed on Vercel's …
A free reinforcement learning book, 'The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning,' launches on GitHub, offering PyTorch implementations of algorithms from Monte Carlo methods to PPO, complete with proofs and explanations, available under a Creative Commons license with more content coming soon.
Reflection AI, an $8 billion open-model startup, secures a massive $1 billion compute deal with Nebius, gaining access to cutting-edge Nvidia chips as AI companies intensify their race to lock down critical computing infrastructure.
Over 1,100 tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, are demanding a six-month pause on advanced AI development, warning that the technology's rapid, uncontrolled advancement poses profound risks to humanity.
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceX are locked in a fierce race to release cheaper, more cost-efficient AI models, with OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 leading the charge by processing tasks with significantly fewer tokens, signaling a major industry shift where affordability now rivals raw performance as the ultimate competitive edge.
OpenAI is restructuring its safety leadership, with Johannes Heidecke departing and safety teams now reporting directly to new VP Mia Glaese, as the company pushes to embed safety work earlier and deeper into its frontier AI development process.
Google Cloud's new Discovery Bench framework exposes alarming flaws in AI benchmarking, revealing that a single vague word can crash an agent's performance score from perfect to zero, while also uncovering broken ground truth and mislabeled data in widely trusted benchmarks — raising urgent questions about whether the AI industry …
Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group is raising up to $2 billion through share sales and convertible bonds in Hong Kong, as the company sells 35.6 million shares at a 9.9% discount, sending its stock down nearly 9.8%, while simultaneously offering HK$6.5 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds due 2027.
A new open-source AI framework called ACRouter launches on GitHub, intelligently routing coding tasks across multiple AI models to optimize both performance and cost, complete with a benchmark dataset, Hugging Face adapters, and plug-and-play integrations for popular developer tools.
Meta is set to begin production of its custom AI chips in September, developed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, as the tech giant moves to reduce its dependence on Nvidia GPUs while projecting up to $145 billion in capital expenditures this year.