Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There’s a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
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An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It’s the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
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Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
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‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.
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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
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At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
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AI | Enterprise
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It’s now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it’s a bet on a fuel source that’s already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others’) turbines have gone in.
