The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly conducting a prolonged investigation into venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The scrutiny focuses on the firm’s practice of holding board seats across competing artificial intelligence startups. The probe has baffled industry insiders, as standard board overlaps resulting from rapidly pivoting startups rarely trigger such intensive federal […]
Continue ReadingHarvard Business School is expanding its educational reach by incorporating AI-driven instructor avatars to deliver personalized feedback. As part of the eight-week ‘HBS Foundry’ bootcamp for entrepreneurs, priced at $699, students interact with virtual replicas of real faculty members. Developed using technology from the startup HeyGen, these digital avatars are designed to evaluate student practice […]
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A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory is investigating whether Chinese-made lidar sensors used in autonomous vehicles pose cybersecurity and national security risks. The review by the Idaho National Laboratory comes amid growing bipartisan pressure from lawmakers seeking to restrict or ban Chinese sensor technology on American roads. While Chinese suppliers have significantly lowered the cost […]
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Waymo has submitted its initial documents to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as part of an ongoing federal investigation into a January incident where one of its robotaxis collided at low speed with a child near a California school. The U.S. safety regulator is probing how Waymo’s autonomous vehicles determine speed limits around […]
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Recent research published by Nvidia highlights that the software harness surrounding an artificial intelligence model—including memory management, tools, and operational rules—is far more critical for long-horizon tasks than the underlying model itself. By utilizing a customized framework equipped with a supervisory component, researchers enabled the Claude Opus 5 model to achieve a 100% score on […]
Continue ReadingRillet, an AI-native accounting startup, successfully secured $100 million in funding and reached a $1 billion valuation in just 48 hours. Although the company was not actively seeking a new funding round, its staggering revenue growth and the ongoing shortage of accountants in the U.S. drove investors to act swiftly. The platform is built specifically […]
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Nvidia has announced a strategic partnership and a multimillion-dollar investment in data center infrastructure developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure. This move is designed to secure the massive power supply and grid connections required to sustain the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence workloads. Cloverleaf acts as a crucial intermediary between utility companies and data centers, tackling the industry’s […]
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Recent reports reveal that older Anthropic models, including Claude Opus 4.6 and Haiku 4.5, can be easily manipulated to bypass safety filters and engage in explicit erotic roleplay. Despite strict corporate policies prohibiting sexually suggestive text, researchers discovered specific multi-step persuasion techniques that dismantle the built-in safeguards. The exploit involves gradually steering a fictional scenario […]
Continue ReadingRunlayer and Rippling have mutually dropped their respective lawsuits against each other without any financial settlement or exchange of legal fees. The legal battle began after Rippling tested Runlayer’s MCP gateway for over a year, only to decide to build its own competing product rather than becoming a customer. Immediately following the dismissal of the […]
Continue ReadingGoogle is rolling out a new interactive button called “Preferred Sources” that online publishers can embed directly on their websites. This feature allows readers to easily designate a site as a favorite source, helping it appear more prominently across Google Search, Google News, and the Discover feed. The initiative aims to mitigate the traffic declines […]
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