Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing

Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of…

Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines
Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines

Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The startup is not building a foundation mod…

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…

Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it

Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Ne…

No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.
No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.

Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around the models’ restrictions, the Wall Street Journal re…

A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat th…

AI dramas need actors, so Chinese platforms are turning human faces into stock assets

Chinese platforms are paying people to license their faces for AI-generated dramas, but contracts may offer limited protection once those reusable digital likenesses leave the marketplace.

A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years
A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years

A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup founded by Serbian and Hungarian entrepreneurs, has closed a Series B led by the venture arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction …

The path to artificial superintelligence
The path to artificial superintelligence

Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today they can exchange data, but they are not yet able to actually coordinate…