Trump’s Former AI Adviser Is Raising $500 Million, and National Security Is the Pitch
Sriram Krishnan, who left his post as Trump's senior AI policy adviser in June, is reportedly raising close to $500…
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Underdog Wants to Sell You an AI Assistant That Never Calls Home
Conway Research launched Underdog, an AI assistant that runs entirely on your Mac, iPhone, or Windows PC instead of the…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Just Learned to Build Its Own Interface Mid-Answer
OpenAI rolled out Intelligent UI today, a ChatGPT feature built on GPT-6 that generates working buttons, forms, calculators, and charts…
Mistral’s New Model Has a Silly Name and a Serious Claim: It Beats China’s Best
Mistral released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a 1.05 trillion parameter open-weight model the French lab says outperforms leading…
Elon Musk Says Grok Bot Will Start Calling In Rivals Like Claude and Suno
Elon Musk says Grok Bot will now route tasks to whichever AI model does them best, naming Anthropic's Claude Opus…
Lambda Is Raising $4 Billion at a $14.5 Billion Valuation, and Anthropic Is Half the Reason Why
Lambda, the Nvidia-backed AI compute provider, is reportedly raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation ahead of…
Ring’s First Smart Lock Fixes a Problem Every Other One Has: A Dead Battery
Amazon's Ring unveiled its first-ever smart lock, a $249 device with a hand-cranked dial that keeps a dead battery from…
Chrome Just Patched Its Seventh Zero-Day of the Year, and Attackers Already Found It First
Chrome 153 fixes 230 bugs, including CVE-2026-87491, a zero-day already being used in real attacks before Google shipped the patch.…
Google Just Opened Its AI Content Detector to Everyone, and It Can Spot OpenAI’s Work Too
Google took SynthID Detector out of invite-only testing and opened it to anyone as a free website that scans images,…
Zuckerberg’s Biohub Just Pulled Google, Meta, and the US Government Into a $1.8 Billion AI Biology Bet
Google, Meta, and two federal agencies are putting fresh money behind Chan Zuckerberg Biohub's push to build an AI model…