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Atoms hires Travis Kalanick’s old Uber finance chief as CFO

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Travis Kalanick is putting the band back together. His industrial-robotics startup Atoms has hired Gautam Gupta, who ran Uber’s finances during Kalanick’s tenure, as its new chief financial officer. Gautam Gupta was Uber’s finance chief from 2013 until 2017, the years Kalanick built the company into a global force, and he is now rejoining the […]

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Uber’s tech chief says the AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ era is ending

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The mood around corporate AI spending is turning, and Uber is saying so out loud. The company’s chief technology officer, Praveen Neppalli Naga, says the era of tokenmaxxing is coming to an end. The term needs a translation. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of spending ever more on AI, measured in the tokens that models consume, […]

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Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner

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Yann LeCun has found a VC fund that will actually launch. The Meta former chief AI scientist is joining 224 Ventures, a new firm that announced Wednesday with more than $100 million in assets under management. His co-partner is Oriol Vinyals, who until today served as Gemini’s co-technical lead at Google DeepMind. Shaun Johnson, who […]

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Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

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Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the result of relocating or contracting work out of the state. […]

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Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude

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Anthropic launched inference hooks for Claude Enterprise, a system that routes every prompt and tool call through a customer’s own security server before Claude processes anything. The company’s DLP server inspects the content and returns an allow or deny verdict. Claude only proceeds once it has one. The same check runs on tool calls: when […]

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Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

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Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le, who co-founded Google Brain, and Oriol Vinyals, whose X bio […]

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The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

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China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger was a Reuters report that the FCC intends to halt imports of new models of optical […]

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A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’

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A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table. Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close watching. Jeff Schmid said there were signs the industry had grown large enough that policymakers should start discussing it at a macro level, […]

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X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

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X has been ordered to silence one of the most closely watched accounts in Turkish politics. A court has told the platform to restrict access, within Turkey, to the presidential-campaign account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The company is not going quietly. X said it was complying with the order as required by Turkish […]

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UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

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Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red-teaming, the discipline of probing models for dangerous behaviour before it appears in the wild. The same institute recently […]

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