The bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AI
Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San
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A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware
AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links
Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds
Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users.
After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350
OpenAI gets the attention it needs from AI researcher Noam Shazeer
An IT executive changing jobs usually attracts little attention outside a narrow group of people, but Noam Shazeer’s move from Google to OpenAI is as
OpenAI adds spend controls and usage analytics to ChatGPT Enterprise
OpenAI has introduced spend controls and enhanced usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise to enable organizations to monitor AI adoption, track consumption across teams, and set
Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The film, which
Sony’s $7.85M PlayStation Store antitrust settlement has been preliminarily approved
A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years
John Jumper, the Google DeepMind vice president who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, is leaving the company after nearly nine
NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a rover prototype that covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving, making it roughly 10 times faster than
Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type
In April, Jon Seager of Canonical laid out the company’s plan for handling AI in Ubuntu. The framework split things into two groups, implicit AI
After the AUR Malware Flood, Yay v13 Lets You Script Your Own Safety Net
As you might already know, the AUR has been going through a rough patch, where more than 1,500 packages were compromised across three separate waves
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
President Tweety McTreason said in a pretaped Axios interview that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, marking a sharp reversal from
Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model
Asus has quietly added an RTX 5080 configuration to the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) in the US, and the price is $4,799. That is $200