Sources: ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit Meta within days of joining and return to OpenAI; later, he was given the chief AI scientist title
Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades
Sources: Perplexity is seeking funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its fundraising round in July 2025 and $520M in January 2024
But Not Only — An AI-Centric Bunch Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai : Gemini 90%, GPT-5 79% — DeepSeek retreats to Nvidia; Google turns on memory Chaitanya Kohli / MEDIANAMA : From D...
Sources: Perplexity spoke to The Browser Co. and Brave about acquiring them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also spoke to The Browser Co. about an acquisition
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google's Chrome …
Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's
OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.
Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link
- Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI. — BI reviewed thousands of files …
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been using fake customer endorsements and massaging its financial numbers
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been using fake customer endorsements and massaging its financial numbers
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.
Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch : X: @charlesrollet1 X: Charles Rollet / @charlesrollet1 : NEW: Inside the fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that...
Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite
Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. — But it was chaos for thousands …
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : X: @_anthonyriera , @suhail , @mattvagni , @techau , and @charlesrollet1 X: Anthony Riera / @_anthonyriera : Every tech company should pay Cursor to t...
A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network
the tech behind chatbots such as ChatGPT — deployed on a classified network after it signed a deal with the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Charle...
In a virtual address to a conference in Beijing, OpenAI's Sam Altman called for global cooperation on AI safety and said China should help shape the guidelines
China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence guardrails needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems …
Sources: Chinese AI surveillance firms iFlytek and SenseTime are evading US sanctions to access high-end chips through cloud providers and other intermediaries
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An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs
A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
Hikvision says it began phasing out an automatic minority recognition feature in 2018, but declined to clarify status of their Uyghur recognition analytics
Charles Rollet / IPVM : Tweets: @charlesrollet1 , @skjeldtoft , and @charlesrollet1 Tweets: Charles Rollet / @charlesrollet1 : Hikvision - the world's largest security camera make...