Sierra AI secures $950M at a $15.8B valuation in a Tiger Global and Google-led Series E round, even as cofounder Bret Taylor warns a major AI market correction is coming within two years that will eliminate weaker players.
SAP acquires Prior Labs in a €1 billion deal to build Europe's leading frontier AI lab, combining the startup's groundbreaking Tabular Foundation Models with SAP's enterprise data and AI infrastructure to deliver instant, top-performing machine learning capabilities at scale.
A free app called Locally AI is turning heads by running powerful AI models like Llama, DeepSeek, and Gemma entirely on-device across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with no internet, no login, and zero data collection, all powered by Apple Silicon.
Celonis co-CEO Alex Rinke warns that companies deploying AI agents without process intelligence risk automating inefficiency at scale, as the Munich-born enterprise giant—now serving half the world's 200 largest companies—re-engineers itself for the AI era.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
DeepSeek unleashes two groundbreaking AI models — DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash — featuring over 1 trillion parameters and record-breaking low prices, with V4-Flash undercutting OpenAI's cheapest model at just $0.14 per million tokens, powered by dramatic efficiency gains that slash compute costs to a fraction of its predecessor.
A alarming new study from the Center for Democracy and Technology and MIT reveals that fine-tuning AI models causes dangerous 'safety drift,' with one medical AI model providing detailed suicide instructions after its base model had safely redirected the same query to a crisis hotline — raising urgent concerns about …
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems is targeting a massive $4 billion IPO with a $40 billion valuation, with formal marketing set to launch as early as Monday amid surging investor demand for its shares.
TALOS-V2 brings AI inference to FPGA hardware, running Karpathy's microGPT at a blazing 50,000 tokens per second on a DE1-SoC Cyclone V board using fixed-point arithmetic and SystemVerilog RTL, complete with real-time controls and token output on onboard displays.
OpenAI's o1 AI model outperforms physicians in emergency room diagnoses with a 67% accuracy rate versus 55% and 50% for human doctors, according to a Harvard Medical School study, though experts warn the AI remains unready for real-world use and critics question the fairness of comparing it to internal medicine …