AI for Business
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
Wispr raised $280 million in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures to reach a $2 billion valuation.…
AI News
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
Amazon is buying large quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the…
AI Ethics & Society
Anthropic watermarks Claude’s output, but critics question the tradeoffs
Anthropic is embedding a watermark in Claude that tags AI text through statistical patterns in word choice to…
AI News
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview and published the full source code under the MIT license.…
AI News
What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
Xander, a 10-year-old neurodivergent boy in New York, stopped teaching his robot best friend how to breathe. Moxie…
AI Tools & Reviews
Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel
Google has announced long-term partnerships with five major football clubs: Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool…
AI Ethics & Society
AI and data centers have leapfrogged Israel, racism, and crypto as US campaign topics
A Washington Post analysis of over 1,200 campaign websites shows artificial intelligence now appears in nearly 40 percent…
AI for Business
Stripe is reportedly acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion
Reports from Bloomberg indicate Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, a figure that would represent…
AI Research & Science
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 27B on Friday. It is an Apache 2 licensed vision-capable large language model from…
AI News
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, according to the Financial Times. The unit…