Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow
There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket. — Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M
Guild.ai, a startup helping companies develop AI agents, has raised $44 million in a seed and Series A and is now valued at $300 million …
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow
There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket. — Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …
Roblox launches “real-time chat rephrasing”, an AI feature that replaces banned words with “more respectful language”, instead of showing profanities as “####”
Sources: the UK plans to delay making copyright rule changes for AI training after responses to its two-month consultation did not favor any of its proposals
Government goes back to drawing board after its proposals triggered backlash from creative industries
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's”
We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon
We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we've made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's”
We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
MrBeast, who is set to earn an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry
Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI's impact on creators' livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself.
SignalFire: in 2024, Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin and startup employment fell 4.9%; Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Toronto employment also declined
AI's centralization in Silicon Valley, Austin's fluctuating living costs, and in-office work requirements are driving the shift. [embedded post] LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette : “I...
Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location, a process that included running Python code to examine license plates, is surreal, dystopian, and entertaining
Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. Bluesky: @wildebees , @stagefright , an...
LiveKit, which offers open-source tools for building apps to transmit real-time audio and video, raised a $45M Series B; LiveKit also powers ChatGPT Voice Mode
A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video …
The crypto-lending industry, nearly wiped out in the last bear market, is staging a comeback as Cantor Fitzgerald launches a $2B Bitcoin financing business
“There is still not a lot of interest in undercollateralized loans yet,” Hadick said. “If you can get undercollateralized lending for prime brokers, trading desks and other instit...
A profile of Skydio, the US' largest drone maker, after its first batch of drones proved disappointing in Ukraine and it competes with Chinese makers like DJI
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Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip design in the next few months, to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC
OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA.O) for its chip supply by developing its first generation …