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Senior White House official accuses Moonshot AI of copying Anthropic’s leading frontier model
A senior White House official has accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of using so-called “distillation” techniques to essentially pirate the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s most powerful models in its own, open-source AI systems. “We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model,” Michael Kratsios (pictured), director ...
Alphabet’s stock sinks after it bumps up AI infrastructure spending yet again
Google parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered better-than-expected revenue for the second quarter today, thanks to strong growth in its cloud business — but the stock sank in extended trading after it missed expectations on earnings and lifted its forecast for capital expenditures. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
AI-native endpoint security startup Glow is born a unicorn after raising $180M
Glow Security Inc. said today it’s exiting stealth mode today as an instant unicorn after closing on a massive $180 million Series A funding. The round catapults the startup’s valuation to a stunning $1.2 billion right out of the gate. Venture capital firms Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks and Redpoint Ventures co-led the round, which also saw ...
Mistral AI strikes multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft to build out Azure infrastructure in Europe
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft Corp. to expand its computing infrastructure in Europe and increase the availability of its top large language models in the U.S. In an announcement today, Microsoft said that Azure cloud customers will soon be able to develop software using Mistral’s data ...
US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatens sanctions against Chinese AI model makers
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the White House is going to examine some of the highest profile “open-weight” models from China to see if their creators have stolen the intellectual property of America’s top artificial intelligence frontier labs. If evidence suggests that’s the case, the U.S. could respond with sanctions against the ...
AI server maker Supermicro’s stock gains on $60B order backlog and stronger margins
Artificial intelligence server maker Super Micro Computer Inc. told investors in a preliminary earnings forecast today that it has secured more than $60 billion worth of new orders for its products in its fiscal fourth quarter. As a result, it now expects its gross margin to significantly exceed its prior forecast. The news sent shares of ...
Nvidia doubles down on AI factories as it showcases massive Vera Rubin performance gains
Artificial intelligence chip king Nvidia Corp. today revealed a fresh trove of performance benchmarks and architectural milestones for its next-generation Vera Rubin platform as it edges closer to global availability. The new numbers are impressive, but on a higher level they also underscore the potency of Nvidia’s approach that combines custom silicon with its broader ...
Harness launches Agent DLC for developers to deploy AI agents using familiar processes and tools
Integrated software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. said today it’s reinventing the development lifecycle for artificial intelligence agents so organizations can bring them from concept to production without worrying they might break something. The company has announced the availability of Agent DLC, which provides companies with evaluation, deployment governance and security controls that are purpose-built ...
Komodor’s autonomous site reliability engineer Klaudia gets a better memory to reduce cloud complexity
Autonomous site reliability engineering startup Komodor Ltd. said today it’s updating its artificial intelligence-native troubleshooting platform to accelerate incident resolution at a time when cloud environments are increasing in complexity and sprawl. The company just announced the immediate availability of Klaudia Memory, which is a new capability within its automated SRE platform Klaudia that helps ...
WekaIO revamps its AI data storage platform and unveils its first hardware for agentic workloads
WekaIO Inc. today announced what it says is its most significant product refresh to date. The distributed big-data management platform provider unveiled a massive overhaul of its flagship software together with the release of its first custom-designed storage hardware that’s built specifically for artificial intelligence inference. The two-pronged announcement saw the company launch WEKA NeuralMesh 6, ...