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 is losing over 50 researchers and engineers in a mass exodus since February, with rivals Meta and Thinking Machines Lab scooping up departing talent as Elon Musk's extreme work culture, unrealistic deadlines, and corner-cutting practices gut critical teams, leaving the company's ability to compete in AI development in serious …
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.
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.
Microsoft's AI-driven vulnerability system MDASH has discovered 16 previously unknown Windows flaws, including four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities now patched, using over 100 specialized AI agents to scan source code and top a major cybersecurity benchmark.
NVIDIA is partnering with AlphaGo architect David Silver's AI lab, Ineffable Intelligence, to co-design next-generation reinforcement learning infrastructure on cutting-edge Grace Blackwell and upcoming Vera Rubin hardware, aiming to build AI agents capable of continuously learning from experience and driving breakthroughs across all fields of knowledge.
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.
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.
A new AI framework called AutoTTS automatically discovers test-time scaling strategies for large language models, cutting token usage by nearly 70% while maintaining accuracy — and the entire discovery process costs under $40 and takes less than three hours.