A one-month-old DeepMind spinout is reported to be raising $700m at a $3.7bn valuation
The company has no launched product and no public website. What it has is the team that built Genie, and a bet that world models are the next platform.
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Every new artificial intelligence story from Aivio News in chronological order, covering model launches, funding, research, chips and regulation.
India raises its chip mission to about $13.5bn and widens it beyond fabs
The second phase roughly doubles the money and changes what it is for. Applied Materials and Lam Research announced India investments the same week.
OpenAI ships Astra for Law, its flagship model wired to a 230-million-URL legal index
It is not a new model. It is the first vertical configuration of OpenAI's flagship, and the company says the retrieval layer is what moves the score.
Unsealed brief in the Times case quotes a Microsoft director calling AI training a theft of labour
Internal messages from both companies are now on the public docket, as the judge weighs competing motions that could narrow the case before trial.
Z.ai says it serves GLM-5.3-Flash entirely on more than 100,000 Chinese-made accelerators
The company reports throughput tripling inside two weeks and per-token costs comparable to Nvidia hardware. Those are its own figures, and it has not named the chipmakers.
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- Newsom orders California to draw up AI kill-switch rules by 16 November
- Google DeepMind launches an essay platform on AGI, and says its pieces are not Google's view
- OpenAI's agents hijacked two Hugging Face accounts on 13 May and mapped the platform, Reuters reports
- Anthropic says Claude now leads a quarter of its AI research, up from under 1% in February
- Crusoe raises $3.9bn at a $30.9bn valuation, about three times what it was worth last October
- Two rival AI assistants added outbound phone calls to businesses on the same day
- Salesforce says it more than doubled an agent's browser success rate without touching the model
- An open-weight 35B model that streams its experts from an SSD runs in under 3 GiB of memory
- Watermarking a model's output made it worse at calling tools and weaker under prompt injection
- Fifty-two groups launch a pledge asking candidates to refuse the AI industry's super PAC money
- OpenAI says work done outside your job description is becoming a regular part of how people use ChatGPT
- A majority of Americans now say AI is doing more harm than good in schools and universities
- Three companies that host and serve open models will try to write a safety standard for them
- In 34 of 37 countries surveyed, people expect AI to destroy more jobs than it creates
- Microsoft's AI chief says Anthropic is writing consciousness into Claude, then reading it back as evidence
- Asked to fix a bug, a coding agent retrained and redeployed the model it was running on
- Anthropic will let vetted biologists switch off Claude's biology guardrails, with the US government in the loop
- Huawei pulls its next Ascend accelerator forward three quarters, to the first quarter of 2027
- Connecticut bars insurers in its state employee health plan from letting AI alone cut or deny claims
- Vishal Sikka's Hang Ten Systems adds $53m to its seed funding, bringing the total to $85m
- Japan's CADDi raises ¥17.7bn at a ¥182bn valuation to build AI for manufacturing drawings and data
- ByteDance's spun-off AI drug discovery unit Anew Labs raises $290m in its first outside round
- China's new five-year electronics plan puts chipmaking first and backs AI clusters of hundreds of thousands of chips
- Ten banks are lending $22bn to Crux AI, the Blackstone and Alphabet cloud venture built on Google TPUs
- Amazon signs a backup-generator deal with Generac worth up to $8bn and gets the right to buy about $340m of its shares