Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute fromNscale, a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals withthe likes of Microsoft, and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, itsnew state-of-the-art chip system. … Devamını oku

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 million subscribers in the last two months. OpenAI has also already filed to go … Devamını oku

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident. The report, released more than a month after the incident became public, spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises. … Devamını oku

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle, theAI newsreader startupfounded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introducedRadar, a podcast search engine that not only transcribes podcast audio but also understands what it means, enabling it to pull out key … Devamını oku

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world. Perceptron, a startup started by two former Meta research scientists, is one such company. Founded in November 2024, the firm develops frontier vision models that … Devamını oku

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the tools that gave us Large Language Models to robotics. That excitement helped deliver a big IPO for Unitree, China’s leading robot maker, which saw the company valued at $66 billion after its arrival on China’s equivalent of … Devamını oku

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Over the weekend, the nerds werebuzzing with speculationover which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new open-weight AI model launched onto OpenRouter anonymously and already topping benchmarks andleaderboardsagainst the best models. As many had expected, Ox Alpha was spawned by GLM-maker Z.ai, according toBloomberg. Z.ai confirmed that Ox Alpha is the newest iteration … Devamını oku