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AI is driving new wave of startups with smaller teams: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
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AI is driving new wave of startups with smaller teams: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, said artificial intelligence is enabling a new generation of startups and could lead to significant breakthroughs in science, mathematics…

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, left, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
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AI Worries Have Returned to Wall Street. Now Come Earnings.

AI jitters are back on Wall Street. SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, left, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Shares of Oracle, CoreWeave, SoftBank and other firms tied to…

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The lobster is loose, and it’s not going back: Peter Steinberger on building OpenClaw at TED 2026
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The lobster is loose, and it’s not going back: Peter Steinberger on building OpenClaw at TED 2026

A decade after founding a bootstrapped startup, OpenClaw‘s Peter Steinberger took the TED 2026 stage on Saturday to share the journey of founding the most…

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Meta poaches another founding member from Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
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Meta poaches another founding member from Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab

Meta has hired Joshua Gross, another founding member at Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati’s AI startup. Per his LinkedIn profile, Gross joined Meta this March…

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OpenAI acquires AI personal finance startup Hiro
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OpenAI acquires AI personal finance startup Hiro

OpenAI has acquired the startup Hiro Finance as part of its efforts to position its AI chatbot as a useful tool for business finance teams….

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Anthropic says they’ll be committing up to $100 million worth of usage credits for the Mythos Preview across these efforts. (Representative file photo)
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Project Glasswing aims to secure the world’s software, and Anthropic’s mythology| Business News

There’s an irony underlying this situation. An artificial intelligence (AI) model that Anthropic was working on was ‘leaked’ a few days ago. Codenamed Mythos, and…

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Only a handful of countries—the United States, the Netherlands and Japan—have specialised tools required to produce AI chips.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google unite to combat AI model copying in China| Business News

Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results from cutting-edge US…

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AI recruiting startup Mercor hit by cyberattack; Meta halts collaboration
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AI recruiting startup Mercor hit by cyberattack; Meta halts collaboration

A few days ago, artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting startup Mercor confirmed it was hit by a security incident linked to the open-source tool LiteLLM. Media…

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YouTube asking users to flag AI slop is a very smart way to have 2.7 billion active users to train their AI models for free.
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AI bubbles, slop and (lack of) ethics| Business News

Cognitive warmup. YouTube wants its users to flag content that is AI generated “slop” (a term that annoys Satya Nadella, particularly). The company says wiping…

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OpenAI gets $110-billion funding from Nvidia, Amazon, SoftBank ahead of IPO

OpenAI Inc. has raised $110 billion in its biggest funding round yet led by Nvidia Inc., SoftBank Group Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. That pegs the…

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