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AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago AI

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training (news.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Amazon AI

The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring (www.axios.com)
17 days ago Trump Google Amazon AI

Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and helps companies build their own specialized AI models, raised a $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago AI

Bill Gates warns AI doomsday scenario is coming, with bioterror pandemics and huge job losses but tech bosses are keeping quiet about it (www.dailymail.co.uk)
17 days ago AI Bill Gates

Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy (yro.slashdot.org)
17 days ago China AI

Bengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and more, raised a $21M Series A at a $65M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” (z.ai)
17 days ago AI

Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
17 days ago China AI

Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become “AI native”, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (www.reuters.com)
17 days ago AI

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2 (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago AI Shanghai

Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago AI Egypt

Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a “huge mistake” driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermine his AI arguments (www.axios.com)
18 days ago AI Bill Gates

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago AI

Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago IPO AI Bill Gates

Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework (www.gatesnotes.com)
18 days ago AI Bill Gates

The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI Asset

Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost (www.pewresearch.org)
18 days ago U.S. AI chatbot

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago India AI Nvidia Intelligence

Foreign AI is unavoidable. Australia's challenge is in application (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
18 days ago Australia AI

Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource (www.geekwire.com)
18 days ago AI

South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago Korea AI

New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago AI New Zealand Ban Social Media

Can AI replace traditional language learning? A new study says not yet (www.eurekalert.org)
18 days ago AI

AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago iPhone AI

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (www.skild.ai)
18 days ago AI Robot

Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs (slashdot.org)
18 days ago AI Nvidia

Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago AI

AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds (slashdot.org)
18 days ago AI

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