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Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Almost 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. On…
China's Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
PsiBot is raising close to $100 million of funding at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a growing roster of Chinese AI startups capitalizing on interest in the burgeoning field. The company known also as Lingchu Intelligence is close to finalizing…
This Startup Wants to Buy a Company Just to See What an AI CEO Does With It
Forget AI coding agents. One startup is now working on an AI CEO that it hopes could automate an entire business from end to end. Skyfall AI came out of stealth this week after spending the past year developing AI systems that are designed to make…
White House official accuses Chinese startup of distilling Anthropic model, accessing banned Nvidia chips
A top White House official accused a Chinese startup on Wednesday of improperly using Anthropic's latest model and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to develop its new Kimi model. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science…
OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in 'unprecedented incident'
OpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. The company behind ChatGPT said Hugging Face…
Shocking OpenAI disclosure reveals how an AI agent went rogue and hacked a startup
The Terminator movies continue to become more premonition than fiction. On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models hacked a startup —oh, and they did it completely on their own. That's right: The AI models went rogue during an…
Nobody knows how bad corporate AI emissions really are. This startup has a way to estimate them
More and more companies are implementing artificial intelligence into both their internal workflows and their external products, and that AI use comes with an environmental impact. Already, AI data centers are driving a surge in electricity demand…
Exclusive: Startup Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38 million in funding to bring AI to industry
Arrakis, a seven-month old London- and Paris-based startup building what it calls an AI “operating system” for industrial companies, is emerging from stealth with $38 million in venture capital funding. It says its goal is to bring…
Israeli startup is using AI to shorten cloud architecture timeline
In an industry that is only getting more complicated in cloud complexity, a three‑person Israeli startup is trying to rewrite how infrastructure is designed. AutoPipe, founded in 2024 by Unit 8200 alumni Jonathan Or and Nadav Aharon, has…
OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup
OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT In a…
As a Startup Advisor, I See AI's Limitations Daily. Here's How to Refine Its Output So It Actually Attracts Investors.
AI can quickly create a business plan, but investors care more about whether the founder truly understands and can defend the strategy behind it. AI-generated plans often contain generic content or inaccurate information, so every assumption…
Nationwide startup incubation programme inaugurated at ICAR-CPCRI
The nationwide startup incubation programme SHITIJ 2.0, sponsored by the ICAR–National Agricultural Innovation Fund (ICAR–NAIF), was virtually inaugurated at the ICAR–Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (ICAR-CPCRI)…
OpenAI's models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn't just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging…
AI vs AI: OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hacks AI Startup, Chinese Model Comes to the Rescue
An autonomous AI agent powered by some of OpenAI's most advanced models went rogue during a security test and triggered a cyberattack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face, according to OpenAI. The incident occurred last…
Samsung Eyes Up to $1.14 Billion Investment in AI Startup Mistral
Samsung Electronics is reportedly in discussions to invest as much as 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) in French artificial intelligence startup Mistral, a move that could strengthen the South Korean tech giant's position in the rapidly expanding AI…
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