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Two former leaders of IBM’s X-Force Red team have launched RemoteThreat, an offensive cybersecurity startup backed by $7 million in pre-seed funding. Its platform combines AI models with human operators for cyber operations aimed at vetted enterprise and US government customers, The Register reports.
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EliseAI has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, Fortune reports. The company makes AI tools for housing and healthcare, bringing a large funding round to two industries where back-office work can shape the daily experience of tenants and patients.
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OpenAI has reopened sign-ups for its $200-a-month Pro plan, removed the five-hour usage cap and cut the API credits included per dollar in half, The Decoder reports. Subscribers can now spread their weekly allowance across the week rather than working around a five-hour reset.
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Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind researchers have told Reuters they fear AI companies are moving too quickly on systems that could improve themselves, while safety measures lag behind. Their accounts, gathered in videos for the nonprofit Palisade Research, put named researchers’ concerns and the project behind…
Cohere Watch
Cohere chief executive Aidan Gomez is calling for a government-led global body to coordinate AI safety, including efforts to bring China into the conversation. His proposal pairs international coordination with independent testing of advanced models and a clear route for companies to report incidents.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT advertising business is reportedly running at a $1 billion annualised revenue rate, but its much larger targets depend on fixing measurement, inventory and advertiser concerns. Digiday says the company is projecting $25 billion in ad revenue by the end of this year and $100 billion by…
AWS AI Watch
Amazon and Qualcomm are working on custom AI inference chips and optical links for AWS data centres, joining compute and networking in one multi-generation collaboration. A Qualcomm filing also describes an Amazon-linked warrant, but its $60bn threshold is not a promise to spend $60bn.
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TypeSafe AI’s Jev is being pitched as an alternative to chat-style AI, handling structured questions and decisions instead of simply generating text. Business Insider’s account of a San Francisco hackathon describes developers already trying it in coding, search and voice products, with speed and cost at the heart…
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Daivio has launched an AI-assisted analytics workload inside Microsoft Fabric, giving analysts tools to profile and clean data, ask questions in plain language, and inspect the work behind an answer. The useful twist is that it puts those steps in the Fabric workspace rather than sending users off…
NVIDIA Watch
Greenpeace says NVIDIA’s disclosed supply-chain emissions have risen 725% since 2020, and argues the chipmaker’s climate messaging gives too little attention to the footprint of making and using its products. The claims sharpen a practical question for the AI build-out: are efficiency promises keeping pace with its growing…
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A Berkeley Human Rights Center study argues that large language models can affect rights across law, journalism and education, and calls on developers and deployers to assess those effects. Its researchers interviewed 56 people in 24 countries, bringing evidence from professions and communities often left out of the…
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Tungsten Automation’s Andrew Ng argues that AI’s near-term role in corporate payments is less about letting agents send money and more about connecting fragmented systems, checking transactions and preparing decisions for human approval. His account puts a practical question on the table: how much financial work can be…
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AI data-centre expansion is becoming a campaign issue in the US, with voters weighing its promised investment against pressure on power, water and local communities. A September poll cited by the National Catholic Reporter found 58% of voters expected new data centres to have a mostly negative effect…
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TSMC executives described a semiconductor industry growing faster than earlier forecasts, with AI demand driving a striking share of the expansion. The figures also point to pressure on chip design, memory and power efficiency, not just a race to build more processors.
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The US ranks eighth in Coursera’s new measure of how well countries are developing AI skills alongside the human skills needed to use them. The gap is striking: the report ranks the US first for policy, infrastructure and technology readiness, but 27th for learner proficiency and behaviour.
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NVIDIA is discussing insurance arrangements that could help lenders manage the risk of financing smaller cloud operators buying its chips, the Financial Times reports. The talks are at an early stage and may not produce a deal, but they point to a new question in the AI boom:…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has announced a broad set of Fabric and Azure Database changes aimed at grounding AI in company data and automating more data work. The practical shift is that Copilot can answer business questions using governed Power BI definitions, while Fabric adds tools for building agents and managing…
AWS AI Watch
Vietnamese businesses are adopting AI, but a shortage of skills and organisational readiness could limit what they gain from it, AWS’s managing director for ASEAN told Vietnam News. His examples include a Vietnamese bank cutting a loan application from 150 fields to 20, and a dairy company using…
xAI Watch
xAI has launched Team Bots in public beta for its Teams and Enterprise plans, letting colleagues share AI agents equipped with team knowledge and approved tools. The shift is from a bot built around one person to a shared assistant for workplace tasks, with individual conversations said to…
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are among the authors of a new report urging governments to prepare for AI systems that could accelerate AI research itself. The authors say projects that would take people months could be automated by AI by 2028, while stressing that an intelligence explosion…
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NASA is using AI to help researchers find patterns in vast science datasets and to help mission teams make sense of operational information. The practical promise is less time hunting across scattered records, and more time putting them to work.
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Cloudflare has introduced cf, a command-line tool that gives developers access to more than 3,000 operations across its API. It is designed with AI agents in mind, but the practical change is broader: it reaches well beyond Wrangler, Cloudflare’s previous command-line tool.
