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Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing ...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn’t like Anthropic in part because the company hadn’t “given dictator-style praise to Trump.”
Amodei made the comments in a 1,600-word message [read the full memo here] to more than 2,000...
Deutsche Telekom, which announced a deal this week to bring SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile to Europe, is also open to working with other direct-to-cell service providers if they can offer competitive service, the company’s CEO told The Information this week. However, Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus ...
Apple announced a low-priced laptop on Wednesday, the MacBook Neo, which starts at $599. Instead of using Apple’s M-series Mac chips, the Neo is powered by the company’s slightly older A18 Pro chip found in the iPhone 16 Pro, released in 2024. This is the first time Apple has released a laptop ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday his firm’s plan, announced last September, to invest up to $100 billion into OpenAI is “probably not in the cards” anymore, citing the fact that OpenAI is “going to go public.” Huang was speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom ...
Major technology companies joined President Trump at the White House Wednesday to vow that the data centers they build for artificial intelligence won’t increase electricity prices for Americans. Leaders from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon signed an agreement known as ...
SpaceX staffers have been out in force this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to pitch its Starlink satellite internet and cell services to the thousands of telecom executives and regulators assembled here. But in my conversations at an event overshadowed by a new war in the Middle East, many attendees expressed concerns about tying their companies too closely to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk,...
Not long ago, I spent a weekend writing code with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. I’ve been programming for more than 20 years. I was one of the first engineers at Facebook, where I built the original search engine. I went on to become chief technology officer of Dropbox, where I scaled the engineering team from 25 people to a thousand. Code has been the foundation of my career, the craft I’ve...
This may be the moment of maximum AI uncertainty. That means some things will get clearer in the coming months—not necessarily better, just clearer. There are three specific points of uncertainty right now:AI developers have raised a ton of money recently, led by OpenAI’s $110 billion haul, which we broke news on and explained. Coming soon is the expected SpaceX, xAI and X combined initial public...
OpenAI’s next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.Among the highlights, the new model, GPT-5.4, will have more than double the context window of the current GPT-5.2 model. That means the model can handle queries with many more words or data, up to 1 million tokens compared to 400,000 tokens today, the person with knowledge said. (As a reminder, a token is a...