Meta plans to sell new stock to raise money for its AI infrastructure buildout. The article Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund its AI…
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Wall Street’s fastest traders are building data centers and backing chip startups to stay ahead in AI
High-frequency traders like Jane Street and Hudson River Trading are now racing each other for AI computing power. The article Wall Street’s fastest…
Toyota is betting $6.4 billion a year on humanoid robots and factory automation
Toyota wants to turn itself into a global robotics company, and it’s betting on humanoid robots and factory automation to get there. The article Toyota is…
Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia’s new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark moves his prediction for self-improving AI forward to 2027
A new benchmark by P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own. The results are improving so fast that…
Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic says companies should evaluate whether they can consolidate sub-agents into a single agent that loads context on demand. In one architecture…
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every…
OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic’s biggest customers
OpenAI is poaching Anthropic’s customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they’ve cut AI costs by up to 90 percent…
OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Smartphone agents don’t get better by processing more data. They improve by training on as many different apps as possible. The researchers behind…
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from…