News
Amazon Says AI Models Should Be Released Only When ‘Ready and Safe’
Amazon said artificial intelligence models should be released only after rigorous testing, weighing in on an industry debate over the…
News
Chinese Startup Naive AI Raises $400 Million at $1.42 Billion Valuation
Naive AI, a Beijing-based large language model startup founded by Tsinghua University associate professor Dai Jifeng, has raised $400 million…
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Salesforce and Nvidia Unveil Koa, a CRM Reasoning Model, at Dreamforce
Salesforce and Nvidia jointly introduced Koa, Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model, built by fine-tuning Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Super on synthetic…
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Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing an AI ‘Kill Switch’ and Independent Oversight
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing the state to accelerate independent oversight of frontier AI companies and…
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AI Data Loss Prevention Startup MIND Raises $72 Million Series B
MIND, an AI-native data loss prevention platform, raised $72 million in Series B funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, with…
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Temporal Raises $550 Million Series E at $12.55 Billion Valuation
Temporal announced a $550 million Series E funding round at a $12.55 billion valuation, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with…
Opinions
AFL-CIO President: ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Significance Is ‘Absolutely Huge’
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler praised Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ as profoundly aligned with labor-movement values, calling its…
Opinions
Is Underwriting Expertise Being Replaced by AI?
A survey of 350 commercial insurance professionals found underwriters are more worried about the loss of senior expertise (44%) than…
Opinions
Why Government Agencies Need a ‘Black Box’ for AI Systems
A Federal News Network commentary by Lee Koepping argues that U.S. government agencies deploying increasingly autonomous AI systems need an…
Opinions
When Disaster Strikes, Could AI Help? Q&A with Jessica Jensen
A RAND study supported by the Markle Foundation, part of the AI for Disasters and Emergencies (AIDE) Initiative, cataloged more…
Opinions
The AI Revolution Threatens a ‘Token Divide’
In a Brookings commentary, Tom Wheeler argues that AI’s rapid capability growth is creating a ‘token divide’ distinct from the…
Engineering
JEPA-Anything: Learning Predictive Models across Different Worlds
Researchers introduce JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic world-modeling framework built on orthogonal predictive factorization (OPF), which extends joint-embedding predictive architectures by decomposing…