The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too sca…
The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This company’s plans to deploy space mirr…
Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia
Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. The article Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia appeared first …
Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services
Meta has become one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The article Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services appeared first on The Deco…
Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback
Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. The article Anthropic changes data retention policy afte…
Mother tongue
“Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken), teeth (brushed), potty (tinkled), bo…
This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study. Late…
When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the mol…
Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion
Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model…
GPT-5.6 Sol drives OpenAI's revenue surge as it regains ground on Anthropic
Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing…
OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background
OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. The alpha channel gets baked in during image generation, which according to OpenAI beats conve…
Don’t wait on a responsible AI policy. You already have one - Eco-Business
Don’t wait on a responsible AI policy. You already have one Eco-Business
Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text
S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally. The post Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights…
From AI Policy to AI Control: Building Governance That Works - The National Law Review
From AI Policy to AI Control: Building Governance That Works The National Law Review
Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
PDFs are easy to read and hard to change. AI can now summarize a 90-page contract in seconds, but it still won't rewrite the source file cleanly. UPDF is built for that second hal…
Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash
Adobe is making three AI audio tools broadly available in Firefly. Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects create royalty-free music, voiceovers, and sound eff…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs
Three ~300M drafters bring speculative decoding to LFM2.5, delivering up to 3.18x faster decoding with identical greedy output. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Mod…
LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable
LLMs don't write in a recognizable style because they can't do better. Post-training and safety guardrails sharply narrow their expressive range, argues Pangram CTO Bradley Emi. B…
Canada’s National AI Strategy: What It Signals for AI Regulation, Privacy and Online Safety - Fasken
Canada’s National AI Strategy: What It Signals for AI Regulation, Privacy and Online Safety Fasken
Fei-Fei Li: AI Policy Must Be Rooted in 'Science, Not Science Fiction' - Modern Ghana
Fei-Fei Li: AI Policy Must Be Rooted in 'Science, Not Science Fiction' Modern Ghana
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Promine…
Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?
Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is…
Berezhna on Tysiachovesna-2027: AI regulation, higher qualifying score, separate tracks for debut and experienced applicants - Interfax-Ukraine
Berezhna on Tysiachovesna-2027: AI regulation, higher qualifying score, separate tracks for debut and experienced applicants Interfax-Ukraine
GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo
Robotics startup Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single demonstration. The article GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new t…