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xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety. Devin Kim, who left xAI in September 2025, filed the suit in a California state court on Tuesday. The complaint...
xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety. Devin Kim, who left xAI in September 2025, filed the suit in a California state court on Tuesday. The complaint...
Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington
Loading the player… Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam...
Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500
Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path.To overcome this brute-force scaling dogma, researchers at Sapient developed HRM-Text, which...
Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations
The notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities, a ShinyHunters member told TechCrunch on Wednesday. The breaches were first reported by BleepingComputer. PeopleSoft...
Everyone wants a piece of Tesla’s battery business
First Tesla, then Ford, and now GM — it seems every automaker wants a slice of the energy storage market. It’s easy to see why. While EV sales have stagnated in the United States, sales of large, stationary batteries have doubled in the past two years. And they show...
Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing. Amidst this flurry of activity, Amazon has signed a deal to borrow some $17.5 billion from a number of financial lenders, according to Bloomberg. The banks...
North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike
A new report by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike found North Korean hackers posing as remote IT workers and online recruiters made up about half of all documented “hands-on-keyboard” intrusions at U.S. tech companies over the past year. The company’s latest annual...
Wing drone delivery might not be a novelty anymore
Wing, the Alphabet-owned company that delivers groceries and even coffee using autonomous drones, is pushing into seven more U.S. cities through its partnership with Walmart. The expansion is part of a broader plan to build a drone-delivery network of more than 270...
As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’
When it comes to the specter of AI’s labor-displacing potential, Jensen Huang thinks that the American worker has nothing to fear. During a conversation Monday night with MSNBC’s Becky Quick hosted by the Milken Institute — an economic policy think tank, the jovial...
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy said Monday it hopes to raise up to $1.3 billion in its initial public offering. The company would be valued at up to $6.5 billion if shares sell at the top of its $21 to $24 price target. That’s more than twice what Fervo had...
US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
A severe security vulnerability affecting almost every version of the Linux operating system has caught defenders off-guard and scrambling to patch after security researchers publicly released exploit code that allows attackers to take complete control of vulnerable...
OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO
In the long-running saga that is Cerebras Systems’s IPO, the finish line is finally in sight. The AI chipmaker said on Monday that it is preparing to sell 28 million shares at $115 to $125 a share. This would raise $3.5 billion and give it a $26.6 billion market cap...
Inside AMEX’s agentic commerce stack: How intent contracts and single-use tokens enforce AI transactions
American Express (Amex) is building a system that lets AI agents shop and pay on behalf of users — but right now it’s only within its own payment network, and still involves a black box that could hinder trust and auditability. Amex already participates in agentic...
Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat
Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge around autonomous AI is no longer theoretical but operational and...
The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next
The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn't cut it anymore; agentic AI requires a different approach that incorporates context. VentureBeat's Q1...
Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. This marks a shift from earlier days, when the release of new models...
Katie Haun raises $1B for new venture funds
Former Andreessen Horowitz investor Katie Haun announced on Monday in a press release that her firm has raised $1 billion across new funds to continue its thesis of backing crypto and blockchain. The capital will be spread across startups at early and later...
Hackers are mass-exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Nearly a week after the makers of the popular web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) alerted users of a critical flaw in its software, hackers are now mass-compromising thousands of websites that rely on the vulnerable software. As of Monday,...
Elon Musk’s only expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race
When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety, and lost its way in pursuit of lucre. To prove that,...
Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious
Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion. The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it...
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