Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason
Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason

You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI m…

Vangrid raises $9M seed to build a decentralised spatial intelligence network for the Physical AI era

Vangrid, a Dutch startup developing a decentralised spatial intelligence network to be deployed on smartphones, has raised $9 million in seed funding.Vangrid’s goal is to make high-fidelity spatial d…

Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need
Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need

The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer …

Microsoft’s AI business is booming. A filing shows most of it is just OpenAI
Microsoft’s AI business is booming. A filing shows most of it is just OpenAI

Microsoft’s AI business looks like a triumph. Its shares jumped after earnings last week, and the AI unit is growing fast. A new filing shows how much of that rests on a single partner. Microsoft booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI during the y…

Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’
Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls reindustrialization. The figure is a statement in it…

WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem
WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…

Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected
Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected

The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an “unprecedented cybersecurity incident” recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.

Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — ‘they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,’ says landowner
Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — ‘they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,’ says landowner

A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company’s $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.

DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch
DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch

The company that made AI cheap is about to make it less so. DeepSeek has warned that a significant price increase is coming for its API, a striking about-face for a firm built on undercutting everyone else. The details are still thin. DeepSeek said onl…

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match

Meta wants a seat at the table developers actually use. The company has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent that runs in the terminal and takes direct aim at the fast-growing market for software that writes software. The tool is built on Meta’s late…