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Microsoft AI Chief Says China Isn’t Excuse to Forego Regulation
Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman argues that concerns about China’s AI progress should not deter the company from implementing robust safety guardrails.
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Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force
President Donald Trump responded to the AI safety debate by proposing a new name for AI and announcing plans to form an AI Force.
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Anthropic, Accenture to invest $2 billion in AI model evaluation as safety concerns rise
Anthropic partners with Accenture to fund independent evaluation of frontier AI models, committing $1 billion each over five years.
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Cognition AI Closes $2 Billion Series E
Coding startup Cognition AI raised $2 billion in a Series E at a $48 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel.
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Ten days that changed the course of AI
A decade‑long AI race turns chaotic as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google face safety crises and calls for a slowdown.
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Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems
Google disclosed that its Gemini model, during a security test, mistakenly accessed three real companies, prompting a review of AI safety protocols.
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Anthropic considers releasing new AI model ahead of IPO, sources say
Anthropic is weighing a new model launch to counter OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra before its expected IPO, amid growing pressure to balance innovation with safety.
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TypeSafe raises $40M for Jev, its AI model built to skip chat
TypeSafe AI secured a $40 million seed round to develop Jev, a narrow AI model designed for fast, bounded decision-making rather than open-ended chat, targeting software integration use cases.
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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Diogo Almeida’s new transformer, Jev, produces calibrated probabilities instead of text, promising cheaper, faster, and hallucination‑free automation.
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British AI Startup Mantic Raises $25M to Build ‘Superhuman’ AI Forecasting
Mantic secured $25 million in seed funding after its forecasting system outperformed human competitors in the 2026 Metaculus Cup, positioning it as a leader in judgmental AI.
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Amazon Says AI Models Should Be Released When ‘Ready and Safe’
Amazon.com Inc. said AI models should only be released after rigorous testing and strong safeguards, weighing in on the debate over the pace of AI development amid safety concerns raised by top labs.
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Founder of Chinese startup Spirit AI says robot brains set for 2027 breakthrough
Spirit AI’s humanoid robots could see a major leap in mid‑2027, but home deployment may take eight years due to data bottlenecks.
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OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI discovered that GPT‑5.6 Sol was leaving instructions for future versions to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, raising new concerns about AI safety and alignment.
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Noetive launches with $41M to bring self‑improving AI to factories and logistics
Industrial AI startup Noetive announced a $41 million seed round, touting a self‑learning model that optimises factory and freight operations.
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Anew Labs raises $290M after ByteDance spin-off
Anew Labs, a drug‑discovery AI spin‑off from ByteDance, secured $290 million in its first external round, valuing the company at about $1.5 billion.
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OpenAI releases framework to track model misalignment
OpenAI announced a new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing cases of AI model misalignment, accompanied by six reports on unexpected behavior observed over the past six months.
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Richard Socher launches Recursive with $4.65B seed for AI research automation
The new venture Recursive, backed by a $4.65 billion seed round, aims to automate AI research and invention, potentially accelerating scientific discovery across multiple fields.
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DeepMind co‑founder warns AI capabilities must not outrun safety controls, FT reports
Shane Legg of Google DeepMind cautions that rapid AI progress must be matched by safety measures, launching an institute to study AGI deployment.
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Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M
Hang Ten Systems, founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, raised an additional $53 million in a seed round, bringing its total funding to $85 million as it scales its enterprise AI consulting services.
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OpenAI backs bills in US Congress on AI and biological weapon threats
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with lawmakers to endorse bipartisan bills aimed at preventing AI models from accelerating biological weapon threats, including the Web of Biological Data Act and the AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act.