Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain
Soneium has partnered with DayOneDream to bring K-pop intellectual property onchain as tokenised assets. Sony Group and Startale Group developed the Soneium blockchain. DayOneDrea…
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic
Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Deco…
Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion
More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion”. They include OpenAI’s chief scientist and an Anthropic…
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips
SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and …
Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather
Tesla says the event "can only be held outdoors," as it's expected to show the car flying in some form using SpaceX thrusters.
The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Just like the rest of the U.S, data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports
The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from …
Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports
Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, t…
A user says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Marketplace buyer
A YouTuber says Meta’s Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasn’t. Matt Robb described what happened in a …
Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a mo…
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem.…
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It…
Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback
Nvidia’s board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use thr…
Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses
Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run it. “Today we are start…
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
Instinct raised $1B at $10B for an AI agent that rings restaurants on its own phone
Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own p…
Red Queen Bio is using AI to design antibodies for future viruses, WSJ says
Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help …
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.