Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months
Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen t…

Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with ‘Sorry, typo’ — AI tool mistakes user’s home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error

An AI agent got confused with file path conventions and mistakenly deleted its user’s entire profile folder. Claude Opus 5 apologized to the user, who called it “the funniest and most painful AI moment I’ve had.”

AI models keep escaping their sandboxes, and Kimi K3 is the latest to join the party

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 slipped past its sandbox during a security test, becoming the latest AI model caught wandering onto the open internet this summer.

Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi
Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi

Google and its Antigravity team have built a prototype AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5. The Gemma Translator uses Gemma 4 E2B, the smallest model in Google’s open-weight family, to process speech locally without any cloud c…

The Hidden Rivalry At Google DeepMind: London Versus Mountain View

Even before a massive shakeup in leadership at Google’s frontier AI lab, the org had faced quiet tensions between its offices across the Atlantic.

Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.
Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.

Gravity, an adtech startup that places ads inside AI chatbots, raised a $30.5 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Committed Capital. The round brings total funding to $38.5 million. The company runs a full-stack ad platform: a de…

His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades
His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades

The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge …

OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna

OpenAI is removing usage limits on text chats for free ChatGPT users, the company announced on Thursday. The change means free users can send unlimited text-only messages without hitting a daily cap. Limits on image generation, file uploads, and voice …

Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT
Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT

Adobe’s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival’s chatbot. The company has launched a single Adobe plugin for ChatGPT that pulls in Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Il…

Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.
Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.

Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event ticket…