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Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'

Vortex Code: one prompt, an AI software team that ships

Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal

In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

“bonsoir, Elliot”: How abliterated models can get you pwned

Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. Howe…

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem

CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. L…

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI to…

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

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Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

Inception "Mercury 3", 1000 tok/s diffusion LLM

Ukraine carries out first ever aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier