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Google reveals big shakeup in its AI teams as Jeff Dean leaves and Demis Hassabis moves upstairs
Google LLC is reshuffling its senior artificial intelligence team, with its Chief Scientist Jeff Dean leaving the company after 27 years and Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, moving upstairs into a chairman role. He’s also becoming the new Chief Scientist of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. The changes were announced by Google CEO ...
Arista Networks’ stock jumps on stellar earnings and revenue beat and strong forecast
Shares of Arista Networks Inc. soared in extended trading today after the networking infrastructure firm easily beat Wall Street’s expectations in its second-quarter earnings report. The company’s stellar results provide an additional proof-point to claims that the demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure services is continuing to gain momentum. Arista, which is one of the main ...
AMD more than doubles its data center revenue, but its stock falls on concerns over rising capex and margin pressure
After seeing its stock rise more than 7% during the regular trading session earlier today, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saw all of those gains wiped out in extended trading after narrowly beating expectations in its latest financial results. The chipmaker reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.66 per share, edging past Wall Street’s forecast of $1.62 ...
Thales debuts Luna 8 to help organizations mitigate emerging quantum security threats before they arise
French aerospace, defense and cybersecurity technology giant Thales SE has announced the availability of Luna 8, a new, first-of-its-kind hardware security module that can help enterprises protect their most sensitive data and cryptographic keys from hackers armed with powerful quantum computers. Luna 8 is available as a network appliance, and will help organizations to modernize ...
After raising $1B in funding, Valar Atomics plans to mass produce small nuclear reactors for the AI industry
Nuclear energy startup Valar Atomics Inc. said today it has raised a bumper $1 billion Series B funding round to help it move from building prototype small nuclear reactors to manufacturing them at scale on a production line. Today’s round was led by Sequoia Capital and saw participation from nine other venture capital firms, including ...
Israeli startup Zenity bags $125M in funding to build the security layer for AI agents
Artificial intelligence security startup Zenity Ltd. said today it has closed on a $125 million Series C round of funding to expand its platform, which secures autonomous agents in production across large global organizations. Today’s round was led by Norwest and saw participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Qumra Capital and others, including Hitachi Ventures, ...
White House invites AI companies to review its new AI safety framework
Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier models to the government for testing, before they’re released to customers or the general public. The development follows recent disclosures by companies including Anthropic PBC and OpenAI PBC, ...
Report claims China is distilling U.S. frontier models to power military AI applications
An exclusive report by Reuters today has surfaced evidence that suggests Chinese artificial intelligence firms have been leveraging the outputs of American frontier models developed by OpenAI Group PBC and Anthropic PBC to train their own AI systems for defense applications. The review by Reuters included a detailed examination of more than 80 academic papers ...
Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes to go public via $638M SPAC merger
Space-Eyes, a defense technology startup backed by U.S President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, has revealed it’s planning to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company called McKinley Acquisition Corp. The deal will value the combined businesses at around $638 million, Reuters reported. Eric Trump recently became the third-largest private investor ...
LinkedIn cracks down on users posting ‘AI slop’ after previously encouraging it
Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn is making a concerted effort to combat “AI slop,” or the low-quality, artificial intelligence-generated content that has been increasingly dominating user’s feeds. In a blog post today, LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan revealed that the company is adding a new “seems like AI slop” button for people to report posts that ...