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Venice AI Hit $1 Billion Before Anyone in Silicon Valley Noticed It Existed

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 -- Two years after quietly launching a privacy-focused AI platform without outside investors, Venice AI has raised $65 million in its first external round at a $1 billion valuati... Read More


OpenAI Offers US Government a 5% Stake Worth $42.6 Billion and Wants Every AI Company to Follow

New Delhi, July 2 -- The question hovering over every major AI company operating in the United States is how long it can scale without Washington deciding to clip its wings. Sam Altman's answer, it no... Read More


Gemini Spark Lands on Mac, and This Time It Wants Your Files

New Delhi, July 2 -- An AI agent that answers questions from inside a browser tab is one kind of trust exercise. An AI agent that can open, sort and rewrite the files already sitting on a person's har... Read More


Anthropic Gets Fable 5 Back. The Reason It Was Taken Away Just Fell Apart.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 -- Three weeks ago, the United States government decided that Anthropic's most capable AI model was too dangerous for the rest of the world to touch. On Tuesday, it decided the o... Read More


A Researcher Asked Claude to Bypass a Firewall. It Found a Way Into Every US Festival

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 -- Ian Carroll has spent years finding the kind of security flaws that make institutions uncomfortable, including a widely reported hole in TSA's boarding pass verification syste... Read More


Vint Cerf Is Retiring From Google. His Parting Warning Is About AI, Not the Past

MOUNTAIN VIEW, July 2 -- Vint Cerf spent the early 1970s writing the rules that let separate computer networks talk to each other, work that became the protocols underneath every email, video call and... Read More


Taiwan Raided Super Micro Over Nvidia Chip Smuggling. The Charge: Document Forgery.

New Delhi, July 2 -- TAIPEI - When Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office raided 12 locations on Monday - including the offices of Super Micro Computer, data center operator Chief Telecom, and ... Read More


Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Its Excess AI Compute

On Tuesday, July 1 -- For the past two years, Meta has been spending at a pace that made even its largest investors uneasy. A projected $115 billion to $135 billion in capital expenditure for 2026 alo... Read More


Workers Are Quitting Because Their Bosses Trust ChatGPT More Than Them

New Delhi, July 1 -- "I quit 100 percent because of the AI use." Her boss had started using ChatGPT to write Slack messages and company emails. Then he started using it to make structural decisions a... Read More


Netflix Requires a Unique Email for Every Profile. The Real Reason Goes Beyond Security.

SAN JOSE, June 29 -- For years, the Netflix household worked like a shared folder: one account, one password, up to five named slots for whoever claimed them. Switching profiles was frictionless - tap... Read More