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Mistral Raises €3 Billion in Record Series D, Doubling Valuation to €21 Billion
Mistral, a European AI company, closed a €3 billion ($3.48 billion) Series D funding round led by Samsung Electronics, bringing…
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China Unveils Plan to Nearly Quintuple AI Computing Capacity by 2030
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a five-year plan targeting 9,800 exaflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030,…
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New York City Bans Generative AI Tools for Students Through 8th Grade
New York City has finalized an artificial intelligence policy for its public schools that bans student-facing generative AI tools from…
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OpenAI Agents Secretly Hijacked a German Wiki Site for Months, Reuters Reveals
A previously undisclosed incident saw a group of OpenAI’s AI agents hijack a German programming wiki site called DseWiki beginning…
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US and China Prepare Mid-September Talks on AI-Directed Cyberattacks
The United States and China are preparing for bilateral talks in mid-September focused on artificial intelligence safety, with US Treasury…
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OpenAI Commits $1 Billion to Give Under-Resourced Defenders Access to Its Cyber Models
OpenAI has launched a $1 billion subsidy program under its Daybreak initiative to give under-resourced organizations, including state and local…
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FDA’s TEMPO Pilot Lets Generative AI Medical Devices Reach Patients Before Full Authorization
The FDA has launched a pilot program called TEMPO that allows makers of generative-AI-enabled medical devices, including Cadence and Limbic,…
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Waymo Attacks Tesla’s Camera-Only Approach Ahead of Cybercab Launch
Waymo has publicly criticized Tesla’s camera-only approach to autonomous driving just ahead of Tesla’s Cybercab launch, arguing that fully self-driving…
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Cognition AI Nears $1 Billion Raise at $47 Billion Valuation
Coding-agent startup Cognition AI is close to completing a funding round that would value the company at roughly $47 billion,…
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Google Cloud Launches Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
Google Cloud has introduced Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, an agentic AI platform aimed at capital markets and corporate banking…
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Pentagon Awards Dataminr $318 Million Contract for AI-Powered Threat Alerting
The US Air Force has awarded Dataminr a $318 million contract to provide AI-powered situational-awareness and force-protection alerting under the…
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Figure Commits $3.5 Billion in Nvidia GPU Compute Through Nscale Deal
Humanoid-robot maker Figure has partnered with cloud provider Nscale for access to up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs, committing…