The Nuclear Company raises $46M to develop massive reactor sites
The funding round arrives as tech companies and utilities are struggling to secure power for data centers.
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok
Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month. When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman
Vibe coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its
Viral outrage over Apple’s EU payment warnings misses key fact
Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to a number of recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red
Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard
The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul
Redpoint raises $650M 3 years after its last big early-stage fund
Redpoint Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm that is about a quarter of a century old, has raised a $650 million tenth early-stage, according to a regulatory filing. Redpoint’s new fund matches the size of its
Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code
Microsoft’s Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI.
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern
Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic
Fieldstone Bio recently raised $5 million in seed funding.