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SoftBank Gets Upsized $11.9 Billion Loan in OpenAI Funding Push
SoftBank Group Corp. secured an $11.87 billion loan to support its investment in US artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, people familiar with the matter said, up from its earlier target of $10 billion.
The Information AI / 1:04 AM
Nvidia May Invest Up to $10 Billion In Anthropic’s IPO
Nvidia has discussed investing in Anthropic’s upcoming initial public offering that would raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of around $2 trillion, Reuters reported Friday. Nvidia could invest as much as $10 billion in Anthropic at the IPO price, according to the report. Anthropic last ...
TechCrunch AI / 10:58 PM
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
AWS Machine Learning Blog / 6:24 PM
Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload
Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness that measures cost per correct answer, agent trajectory cost, and rubric-graded deliverable quality across OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock.
Bloomberg AI / 6:03 PM
AI Firm Cohere in Talks for Up to $3 Billion Raise, Report Says
Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc. is in advanced talks to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, according to a report from the Globe & Mail.
MIT News AI / 1:45 PM
Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.
The Information AI / 9:22 AM
Tencent-backed Enflame Triples on Debut as China Pushes for Chip Self-sufficiency
Shanghai Enflame Technology surged on its first trading day Friday after the Chinese AI chip developer raised about 6.12 billion yuan ($911 million) in an initial public offering, underscoring strong investor appetite for domestic alternatives to Nvidia chips. Shares opened at 410 yuan, nearly ...
AWS Machine Learning Blog / 9:58 PM
Reduce LLM latency with prefix-aware routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference
Amazon SageMaker Inference now offers prefix-aware routing, a routing strategy that sends requests sharing the same prompt prefix to the same instance so the KV cache stays warm. In benchmarks on Llama 3.1 70B, it reduced P50 time-to-first-token by up to 77% and raised KV cache hit rates from about 25% to over 80%.
TechCrunch AI / 2:17 PM
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
The Verge AI / 11:00 AM
Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and "dishonest" behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins […]
Latent Space / 3:33 AM
[AINews] not much happened today
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Hacker News AI / 10:02 PM
OpenAI's apparent maths breakthrough raises profound questions
HN 1 pts · 0 comments
The Decoder / 10:27 AM
OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs
The fight over an AI-generated proof of a millennium problem is heating up. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of academic fraud, CEO Sam Altman rejects the allegations. Terence Tao warns that cases like this could "reverse centuries of tradition in open science." The article OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs appeared first on The Decoder .
Mistral AI Blog / 12:00 PM
Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
OpenAI News / 9:00 AM
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.
Import AI / 12:26 PM
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Plus, a machine hermeneutics story
Bloomberg AI / 12:25 AM
Tencent-Backed Chipmaker Enflame Jumps 179% in Shanghai Debut
Shanghai Enflame Technology Co.’s shares surged in their Shanghai debut after the chipmaker backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd. raised about 6.12 billion yuan ($911m) in an initial public offering.
The Information AI / 11:26 PM
Fund Focused on Bootstrapped Founders Raises $950 Million
There’s certainly a frenzy among venture capitalists to back the hottest startups before they’ve made a dime of revenue, but one fund is sticking to a proven strategy of investing in startups that have generated at least millions in revenue—often without raising any institutional money. Focusing on these boot-strapped founders has again resonated with Volition Capital’s limited partners. The Boston-based growth equity firm, which cut its teeth investing in consumer startups like Chewy and enterprise software companies, raised $950 million for its sixth fund, co-founder Larry Cheng told The Information exclusively. The fundraise, Volition’s largest, brings the 16-year-old firm’s assets under management to $2.6 billion.
The Information AI / 10:29 PM
Personal AI App Instinct Faces Compute Crunch That Could Lead to New Funding
The year-old startup behind Instinct, a personal AI assistant that’s caught fire with Silicon Valley insiders, is seeking more computing power, leveraging its early buzz as it faces new competition from giant Meta Platforms. Over the last few weeks, Instinct, which launched to a select group of users earlier this year, has sometimes notified users that it is running at full capacity and “responses may be slower” as people use it for tasks such as negotiating bills and answering emails. More cash could help: the company is looking to raise $1 billion in new funding after recently raising $250 million, its founder and CEO Noah Shinn has recently told prospective investors, according to a person familiar with the statement.
Bloomberg AI / 12:00 PM
Anthropic Investor Leads Funding for Off-Grid AI Power Startup
A startup that builds off-grid power systems for data centers said it raised $120 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital, an investor in artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic PBC.
Bloomberg AI / 5:35 AM
Musk’s Boring Co. Raises Capital, Valuing Firm at $23 Billion
Boring Co. secured $3 billion in fresh funding backed by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, valuing Elon Musk’s tunneling startup at $23 billion.
Bloomberg AI / 5:35 AM
Musk’s Boring Co. Raises Funds at Valuation of $23 Billion
Boring Co. secured $3 billion in fresh investment backed by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated entities, in a funding round valuing Elon Musk’s tunneling startup at $23 billion.
Bloomberg AI / 3:50 AM
AMD-Backed Korean AI Startup Upstage Considers Pre-IPO Round
South Korean artificial intelligence startup Upstage is considering a pre-listing funding round as one of several capital-market options, according to its co-founder.
TechCrunch AI / 12:00 AM
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
Hacker News AI / 9:57 PM
Apple raises prices of last years iPhones
HN 1 pts · 0 comments
TechCrunch AI / 8:24 PM
Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
Hacker News AI / 6:15 PM
Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm over A.I. Acceleration
HN 3 pts · 1 comments
Bloomberg AI / 5:18 PM
Defense Tech Startup Covenant Emerges From Stealth
Covenant, a defense tech startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is emerging from stealth after raising over $250 million over three funding rounds. The firm has already signed military contracts across the US and Europe and says it can make cheaper heavy-payload, long-range cruise missiles. Covenant President and Chief Growth Officer Abby Denburg joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
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