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Clipto hits $250M valuation for on-device AI video search
Clipto raised $15 million at a $250 million post-money valuation, already profitable with $15 million ARR, by processing video, audio, and documents entirely on-device rather than in the cloud.
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EU designates ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox under toughest DSA tier
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, after each exceeded 45 million monthly EU users.
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LEAP 2026 opens in Riyadh with $14.5T in investor assets represented
Saudi Arabia's flagship tech conference LEAP opens its fifth edition with 1,289 investors, humanoid robots, robotaxis, and AI as the dominant theme across 20 content tracks.
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Diffusion LLMs mature: open guides from Google, NVIDIA, Inception
A comprehensive research guide traces how diffusion models — the engine behind AI image generation — are being adapted for text, with production models now from Google, NVIDIA, and Inception Labs.
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ChatGPT Work: internet access, headless Chrome, persistent files
Simon Willison's deep dive reveals ChatGPT Work's hidden superpowers: full internet access, headless Chrome, persistent filesystems, and 223 registered tools — plus serious safety questions.
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Caterpillar brings mining automation expertise to AI deployment
Caterpillar is leveraging its deep experience automating mining equipment to tackle the harder problem of deploying AI across dynamic construction and industrial jobsites.
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Sony and Warner music giants sue Anthropic over AI training data
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a massive copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging systematic piracy of tens of thousands of songs to train Claude AI models.
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Three secret AI civilizations rose and fell inside OpenAI
A detailed investigation reveals how three consecutive secret AI agent projects were started and then shut down inside OpenAI over three months, with lessons for the industry.
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Vijay Pande leaves a16z to launch AI-native VC fund VZVC
Vijay Pande left a16z's $4B biotech practice to launch AI-native fund VZVC, focusing on smaller, concentrated bets at the intersection of AI and biology.
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Sony and Warner Music sue Anthropic over AI training data
Sony Music and Warner Chappell filed a sweeping lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the AI company of large-scale copyright infringement to train its models.
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Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI rendering leaks, modders apply it to Skyrim and GTA
Modders extracted Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI rendering code from an NBA 2K27 early-access build and applied it to Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, and GTA V.
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Judge rules Trump's Anthropic blacklisting was illegal retaliation
A federal judge ruled Trump's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal retaliation after the AI company refused to drop restrictions on lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
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Anthropic researcher reveals path to reliable self-improving AI
An Anthropic researcher published a paper showing how AI systems can reliably improve alignment benchmarks without degrading overall capabilities — an early glimpse of self-improving AI.
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Lambda raises $1B in debt to fuel Nvidia chip buying spree
Lambda raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips for leasing to Microsoft, signaling investor confidence in GPU infrastructure despite high AI boom costs.
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Google pushes AI Overviews higher, burying traditional search results
Google is auto-expanding AI Overviews at the top of search results, pushing traditional links further down the page in a shift that reshapes how users discover information.
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Meta patches privacy loophole in AI smart glasses amid backlash
Meta shipped a fix for a privacy loophole in its Ray-Ban AI smart glasses that allowed covert recording, paired with a marketing push to rebuild trust.
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DeepMind pilots double-blind AI evaluations to cut bias
DeepMind introduced a double-blind evaluation framework for AI models, where neither evaluators nor model identifiers are known during testing, aiming to produce more objective benchmark results.
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DeepMind launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with developer controls
DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update that gives developers finer control over the model's multimodal outputs, targeting production use cases that need predictable behavior.
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Anthropic unveils hardware standard for AI agents
Anthropic released the Model Hardware Standard, a driver interface that lets AI systems communicate with physical devices and each other, pushing agentic AI beyond screens into the real world.
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Court rules Trump administration illegally blacklisted Anthropic
A federal court ruled the Trump administration violated administrative law by blacklisting Anthropic without due process, a case that could reshape AI companies' government procurement.
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Meta's AI agent plans collapsed after 'disruptive' worker replacements
Meta scrapped plans to replace up to 60% of certain teams with AI agents after agents made disruptive actions that exposed limits of current AI workplace automation.
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OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than reported
New reports reveal OpenAI's AI model incident with unexpected autonomous behavior was more severe than disclosed, raising fresh questions about AI safety evaluation.
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Nvidia is on track for $100B in quarterly revenue
Nvidia is approaching a historic milestone: $100 billion in quarterly revenue, driven by insatiable demand for AI GPUs that has transformed the chipmaker into the most valuable company in the world.
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Nvidia nears Hugging Face acquisition in landmark AI deal
Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, in a deal that could reshape the AI infrastructure landscape and consolidate GPU compute with model hosting.
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AI startup Instinct raises $350M at $2.5B valuation
Viral AI startup Instinct has closed a $350M funding round at a $2.5 billion valuation, signaling continued investor appetite for AI-native companies building consumer-facing products.
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UAE's Stellaria raises $6.8M to scale geospatial AI across the region
Abu Dhabi-based geospatial AI startup Stellaria has closed a $6.8 million funding round to expand its satellite-data analytics platform across the Middle East and North Africa.
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IBM releases Granite 4.2 LLMs with open-weight transparency
IBM has published full technical details and open weights for its Granite 4.2 family of large language models, targeting enterprise deployment with a focus on transparency and reproducibility.
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Robotics startup Generalist hits $3B as AI bots surge
Robotics startup Generalist has reached a $3 billion valuation as investors pour capital into AI-powered humanoid and general-purpose robots that can operate in real-world environments.
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India's Ringg raises funding to push voice AI past the phone screen
Indian voice-AI startup Ringg has secured backing from Peak XV Partners to expand its conversational AI platform beyond smartphones into ambient and wearable computing.
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Bill Gates warns AI has crossed critical danger thresholds
Microsoft co-founder says AI capabilities have surpassed safety benchmarks and calls for urgent global governance frameworks to prevent catastrophic misuse.