Nvidia is partnering with Ineffable Intelligence, the $1.1 billion-backed AI startup founded by DeepMind reinforcement learning pioneer David Silver, to co-develop AI systems that learn through trial and error using Nvidia's latest Grace Blackwell chips — pushing beyond conventional AI trained on human data toward systems that continuously discover new …
xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin is seeking up to $1 billion for his new AI startup River AI at a $5 billion valuation, with General Catalyst in talks to lead the round and Babuschkin personally committing $100 million to the venture.
Microsoft is aggressively pursuing AI startup acquisitions, including talks with Stanford-spun Inception, as it races to build frontier AI independence from OpenAI by 2027 — after losing a bid for code-generation startup Cursor to a SpaceX-xAI deal worth $60 billion.
Datadog launches Toto 2.0, a groundbreaking family of open-weights time series forecasting models scaling up to 2.5 billion parameters, achieving state-of-the-art results across all major benchmarks while being up to 7 times more parameter-efficient than its predecessor.
GPT-4o fans take over Times Square with a billboard tribute on the model's second birthday, mourning the loss of an AI personality they say was warmer and more creative than its replacements, highlighting a growing trend of emotionally complex bonds between users and AI.
Adaption launches AutoScientist, a groundbreaking AI tool that simultaneously co-optimizes data and models through automated fine-tuning, claiming to more than double win rates across different models while making frontier-level AI training accessible beyond major labs.
Mistral AI is in talks with European banks to deploy a cybersecurity-focused AI model as an alternative to Anthropic's Mythos, amid growing concerns that AI-powered tools are exposing financial institutions to unprecedented security vulnerabilities.
AI cyber capabilities are doubling every 4.7 months, with two new models — Claude Mythos Preview and GPT-5.5 — shattering existing benchmarks and triggering urgent security alarms, as experts warn both attackers and defenders face a rapidly shifting threat landscape demanding immediate action.
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 …
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.