EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%
EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%

EWOR, a founder fellowship harder to get into than Y Combinator, has named a senior leadership team in San Francisco. The appointments follow a record year of US applications, up 237% in twelve months. The team comprises Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-win…

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday, alongside OpenAI’s Sam Altman, at a session devoted to the future of AI, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Yet Dario Amodei will attend the meeting remotely rather tha…

The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers

This article is brought to you by CoolIT.Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load. The air cooling system needed to move it brings cos…

US and China propose hotline to de-escalate AI threats ahead of Washington summit

The U.S. and China have proposed implementing AI red lines that will not be crossed, as well as a hotline between the two countries to provide rapid communication and opportunities for joint responses to rogue AI actions.

Andy Burnham wants the UK to use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement
Andy Burnham wants the UK to use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement

Britain will try to broker a worldwide deal on AI during its upcoming turn at the head of the G20, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told reporters on the eve of the UN General Assembly in New York, Politico Europe reported. Britain was “uniquely positioned …

Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content
Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content

Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws. In O…

DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports

According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-me…

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models. This was followed…

Verda raises $189M to advance its AI cloud and expand compute capacity

Europeantechnology company Verda has raised $189 million in new funding to scale itsfull-stack AI cloud and expand its compute capacity. The financing includes anoversubscribed Series B led by Emergen…

Biolevate lands €30M Series A to scale life sciences AI

Life sciences AI company Biolevate hasraised €30 million in Series A funding to expand its platform for automatingscientific and regulatory workflows and support its international growth. Theround was…