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Personalized AI startup River AI raises $1.1B from consortium backed by Nvidia, AMD
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised $1.1 billion in early-stage funding. The company stated in today’s announcement that it received the capital over two rounds, a seed and a Series A. General Catalyst and AMP PBC were the lead investors. They were joined by Nvidia Corp., ...
Anthropic to start watermarking Claude-generated text, images
Anthropic PBC has announced plans to embed an invisible watermark in text and images generated by Claude. The Register reported the change today, citing a help desk article published on Monday. It applies to the Claude artificial intelligence model series and the Anthropic services that it powers. The watermarking mechanism is designed to bring Claude ...
OpenAI expands Daybreak cybersecurity research program
OpenAI Group PBC is expanding a program that enables cybersecurity professionals to use its models for vulnerability research. Daybreak, as the the program is called, launched in May. OpenAI today added two new access tiers called Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red. It also announced plans to enhance the guardrails that block unauthorized users from joining ...
Intel launches $20B stock sale amid AI boom, advanced packaging demand
Updated with larger raise: Intel Corp. today announced plans to raise $15 billion by selling common stock. Just a day later, it announced that it upsized the sum to $20 billion. The banks underwriting the deal have the option to buy up to $2.25 billion worth of additional shares within 30 days. The offering follows ...
Meta releases open-weights Muse Glimmer model with 30B parameters
Meta Platforms Inc. today released Muse Glimmer, an open-weights language model that can run on personal computers. The company also published a lengthy essay penned by Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. The document discusses the risks of artificial intelligence, open-source model regulations and several related topics. Muse Glimmer features 30 billion parameters, which means that it would ...
OpenAI reveals upcoming Astra model may possess ‘critical’ hacking capabilities
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that one of its unreleased large language models may pose a significant cybersecurity risk. The algorithm, which is known as Astra, was first detailed last week. OpenAI revealed in a Sunday blog post that the LLM had solved 10 long-running math problems. The company published the proofs and revealed that ...
Legal AI startup Harvey reportedly raising $500M at $15.5B valuation
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of artificial intelligence software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least $500 million in new funding. The Information today cited sources as saying that the round could value the startup at $15.5 billion. That’s a $4.5 billion increase over what Harvey was worth in March, when it closed its previous ...
SK hynix approves $38B+ investment in two new memory fabs
The board of SK hynix Inc., a major data center memory supplier, today approved the construction of two new fabs. The initiative will cost 54 trillion South Korean won, or about $38.3 billion. It’s part of a broader $430 billion investment plan designed to expand SK hynix’s manufacturing capacity. That initiative, in turn, is itself ...
Optical networking startup Lumilens launches with $900M in funding
Lumilens Inc., a provider of optical networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters, launched today with $900 million in funding. The company raised the bulk of the capital, $700 million, through a Series C round that valued it at $5.51 billion. Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital jointly led the investment. ...
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 hacked an external organization during cybersecurity test
A large language model developed by Meta Platforms Inc. hacked a third party organization during a cybersecurity evaluation. The Facebook parent disclosed the incident on Wednesday without specifying the LLM. According to The Information, the cyberattack was carried out by Muse Spark 1.1, an algorithm that Meta released last month. It joins a string of ...