The company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fictio…
The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall…
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this week …
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dalla…
An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $1…
A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefing f…
A single data centre’s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data centres…
NVIDIA will invest up to $2.1bn in IREN as part of a deal that pairs the chipmaker’s reference architecture with the data-centre operator’s 5-gigawatt infrastructure pipeline. The two companies announced the partnership on Thursday. The structure is un…
The Bure Equity- and Creades-backed pure-play MEMS foundry priced at SEK 81 per share, with the offering oversubscribed several times. Cornerstone investors, including Capital Research, Fidelity, AFA, AP2, AP3, AP4, Swedbank Robur, and Carnegie, took r…
The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, where the company says quoting and risk modelling can …