Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn
Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn

Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If it comes off, it would rank among the largest software buyouts ever stru…

Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba
Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba

Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the company’s usual habit of leaning on other people’s models. According to a Reuters report, Apple is the first foreign firm Beijing ha…

Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness

Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation o…

Today’s Wordle #1882: Hints And Answer, Friday August 14

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NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, August 14

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The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words—and Barely Says Anything

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.

Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation
Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation

Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad …

Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship
Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens. Gemini 3.5 Pro remains months behind schedule, and Google will not say whether it is still coming. Google has release…