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The one-directional radicalism of Alex Karp: Palantir’s Marxism problem is Palantir

Inside an American government data centre, a system called ImmigrationOS is assembling a stranger’s life. It reaches for a passport record, then a Social Security file, then a year of tax returns, then a licence-plate read captured by a motorway camera, and it stitches them into a single profile that tells an enforcement officer whom […]

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The ‘death zone’: how free Chinese models are hollowing out US AI

China’s open-source AI push has created what Bloomberg calls a ‘death zone’ for rival American model makers. The phrase captures a squeeze on the middle of the market, where US companies are too costly to match free Chinese models yet not good enough to command a frontier premium. The pressure comes from giving models away. […]

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Huawei scientist says Nvidia will soon hit the same chip wall

One of the Chinese company’s top scientists has warned that Nvidia will soon run into the same physical limit on chip performance that Huawei says is reshaping the whole industry, according to Bloomberg. The argument is less a boast than a bet on where the technology is heading. If every chipmaker is nearing a hard […]

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SoftBank’s debt-fuelled AI bet faces its reckoning at earnings

SoftBank’s AI bet meets its accountants this week. When the Japanese group reports earnings, the headline profit will look healthy, but the real story is the mountain of funding commitments Masayoshi Son has stacked behind OpenAI. Analysts expect net profit of around ¥148bn, close to $940m, for the April-to-June quarter, flattered by the rising value […]

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US finalises voluntary tests for AI models’ hacking powers

The White House has finalised a voluntary framework for testing whether America’s most advanced AI models can be used to hack. A White House official said the framework, ordered in June, was completed by its deadline, with talks on next steps now under way. The tests are cybersecurity assessments, designed to gauge the offensive capabilities […]

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The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.

People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to change that. Mariana […]

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A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.

Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines that improve themselves. Jasjeet Sekhon, DeepMind’s chief strategy officer, made the case at a summit at UC Berkeley. Recursive self-improvement, or RSI, […]

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The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.

Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its […]

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Anthropic pays AI’s biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money.

The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can buy. The trigger was a single line in an Axios report on the talent wars. A […]

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A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.

A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The timing is the story. Days earlier, OpenAI […]

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