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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its…
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents…
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
How much control are you willing to give an LLM over your digital life? Getting the most value from a model…
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported…
Startups Are Still Acquiring Startups, Led By Ultra-High-Valuation Unicorns
For a startup, selling to another startup isn’t the classic exit strategy. However, data shows it is a…
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?
In Brief Posted: 1:01 PM PDT · August 23, 2026 Image Credits:Getty Images Anthony Ha Who’s behind the new…
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash
The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO…
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained…
🔮 Why one AI is better than four #598
Good morning!We are looking for an outstanding economist to join us as an AI Economy Research Fellow. If you…
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
In Brief Posted: 2:46 PM PDT · August 22, 2026 Image Credits:Malte Mueller / Getty Images Anthony Ha…
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger…
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · August 22, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin / NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony…
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent…
🏦 The problem with petards
The petard was a sixteenth-century explosive charge. An attacking engineer would carry it to a castle gate,…
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker —…
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit…
Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf
In Brief Posted: 3:37 PM PDT · August 21, 2026 Image Credits:Chesnot / Getty Images Lucas Ropek Nvidia…
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the…
Tante on AI: ‘When this thing crashes, I want to see apologies’
Today we have the Tante interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech, AI Tools And Infrastructure Lead The Way
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus…
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it…
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other:…
Ketan Joshi interview: preview for Pivot to AI supporters
I recorded an interview with climate and energy transition writer Ketan Joshi about our AI bubble friends’…
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive…