OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment
OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the Un…

Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived thr…

Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta engi…

CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute
CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute

The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural’s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-manuf…

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at th…

SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps
SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps

SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company’s blockbuster IPO proceeds on sched…

OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify
OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify

OpenAI has announced two new measures designed to help the public determine whether an image was created by its AI models. The company is formally joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard while simultaneously p…

Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in
Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in

Discord has flipped the switch on end-to-end encryption for every voice and video call on its platform, a move that means not even the company itself can access what its hundreds of millions of users say on calls. Mark Smith, Discord’s VP of core techn…

GitLab cuts 7% of workforce and flattens management in sweeping ‘agentic era’ restructuring
GitLab cuts 7% of workforce and flattens management in sweeping ‘agentic era’ restructuring

GitLab is slashing jobs, shrinking its geographic footprint, and reorganising its engineering teams as it bets its future on a world where AI agents, not humans, write most of the code. The DevOps platform company announced on 19 May that it will cut a…

US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities
US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities

Weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America’s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country’s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and t…