TechCrunch
Funding
Institution / OrganisationAir Street Capital
Focus AreaEarly-stage AI company investment

Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund

Published on: 4 days ago

London’s Air Street Capital has raised a large Fund III with eyes locked on backing early-stage European and North American AI companies.

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Threadr/singularity
Focus AreaCommunity

The eerie similarity between LLMs and brains with a severed corpus callosum

Published on: 5 days ago

In the 1960s and 70s, Sperry and Gazzaniga ran experiments on patients who had undergone a severance of the corpus callosum as a treatment for epilepsy. The procedure created two largely independent cognitive systems sharing one skull. In a healthy brain, the corpus callosum transfers information b

TechCrunch
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationBernie Sanders
Focus AreaAI chatbot behavior and transparency

Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great

Published on: 4 days ago

Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks he's tricked Claude into revealing the AI industry's secrets, but he really just exposed how agreeable chatbots can become.

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Wired
Business
Institution / OrganisationEuropean Utilities
Focus AreaAI data center power grid integration

The AI Race Is Pressuring Utilities to Squeeze More From Europe’s Power Grids

Published on: 5 days ago

As data center developers queue up to connect to power grids across Europe, network operators are experimenting with novel ways of clearing room for them.

Microsoft Research
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMultiple researchers
Focus AreaMachine intelligence vs human brain

Will machines ever be intelligent?

Published on: 4 days ago

Are machines truly intelligent? AI researchers Subutai Ahmad and Nicolò Fusi join Doug Burger to compare transformer-based AI with the human brain, exploring continual learning, efficiency, and whether today’s models are on a path toward human intelligence. The post Will machines ever be intelligent? appeared first on Microsoft Research.

NVIDIA
Product Updates
Institution / OrganisationNVIDIA
Focus AreaAutonomous AI agents security

How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell

Published on: 4 days ago

Autonomous agents mark a new inflection point in AI. Systems are no longer limited to generating responses or reasoning through tasks. They can take action: Agents can read files, use tools, write and run code, and execute workflows across enterprise systems, all while expanding their own capabilities. Application-layer risk grows exponentially when agents continuously improve […]

Jack Clark
Thought Leadership
AuthorJack Clark
Focus AreaThought Leadership

Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks

Published on: 4 days ago

How will timeless minds value time?

Reddit
Community
Threadr/OpenAI
Focus AreaCommunity

Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification

Published on: 5 days ago

According to Toms Hardware police in North Dakota arrested the woman based entirely on an AI match completely ignoring the fact that she was 1200 miles away at the time of the robbery. Despite tech companies explicitly warning that facial recognition software is not definitive proof lazy police work

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Funding
Institution / OrganisationGimlet Labs
Focus AreaMulti-chip AI inference

Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way

Published on: 4 days ago

Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.

TechCrunch
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationPentagon
Focus AreaDefense AI contractor policy

Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’

Published on: 4 days ago

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DOD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.

The Guardian
Business
Institution / OrganisationBlackRock
Focus AreaAI wealth inequality and market concentration

AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock’s Larry Fink

Published on: 4 days ago

CEO of asset manager says only a few firms and investors may reap rewards from growth in the technologyThe boom in artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, with only a handful of companies and investors likely to reap its financial rewards, the BlackRock chief executive, Larry Fink, has said.The boss of the $14tn (£10.4tn) asset manager used his annual letter to investors on Monday to hi

MIT Tech Review
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMIT
Focus AreaAI hallucinations and reliability

The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions

Published on: 4 days ago

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI companies to train on…

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Community
Threadr/artificial
Focus AreaCommunity

Andrej Karpathy's autonomous AI research agent ran 700 experiments in 2 days and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading

Published on: 5 days ago

TechCrunch
Funding
Institution / OrganisationLittlebird
Focus AreaAI screen reading and task automation

Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen

Published on: 4 days ago

Littlebird is building an AI that reads your screen in real time to capture context, answer questions, and automate tasks, without relying on screenshots.

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Thought Leadership
AuthorThe Algorithmic Bridge
Focus AreaThought Leadership

The One Thing I Use AI For That Actually Makes Me Smarter

Published on: 4 days ago

Nobody’s doing this

Bloomberg
Product Updates
Institution / OrganisationAlibaba Group
Focus AreaAI chip design for inference

Alibaba Unveils New Chip Design to Meet Surging Demand for AI

Published on: 4 days ago

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is launching a new chip for agentic AI and inference computing, adding to a portfolio of semiconductors designed to drive its artificial intelligence ambitions.

Reddit
Community
Threadr/OpenAI
Focus AreaCommunity

You get 1 Month for free on ChatGPT Plus when clicking "Cancel" on your subscription

Published on: 4 days ago

I'm cancelling to use Claude and I will cancel anyway, but I still feel a bit ripped off knowing I could've gotten a free month out of it.

Wired
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationPentagon
Focus AreaMilitary AI deployment and warfare

Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

Published on: 4 days ago

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

MIT Tech Review
Business
Institution / OrganisationAnimal welfare advocates
Focus AreaAI applications for animal welfare

The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

Published on: 5 days ago

In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead, Persian rugs blanketed the floor, and mosaic lamps glowed beside potted plants. In the common area, a wildlife advocate spoke passionately to a crowd lounging in…

Bloomberg
Product Updates
Institution / OrganisationApple
Focus AreaAI features announcement

Apple to Start AI Comeback Bid on June 8 With Annual WWDC Conference

Published on: 4 days ago

Apple Inc. announced plans to hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference from June 8 to June 12, when the company is poised to unveil a make-or-break collection of AI features.

TechCrunch
Business
Institution / OrganisationHelion
Focus AreaAI power supply partnership deal

Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks to sell power to OpenAI

Published on: 4 days ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that would see Helion sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.

Reddit
Community
Threadr/MachineLearning
Focus AreaCommunity

[D] ICML 2026 Review Discussion

Published on: 4 days ago

ICML 2026 reviews will release today (24-March AoE), This thread is open to discuss about reviews and importantly celebrate successful reviews. Let us all remember that review system is noisy and we all suffer from it and this doesn't define our research impact. Let's all prioritise reviews which e

Bloomberg
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationSilicon Valley
Focus AreaUS AI leadership policy

Big Tech Shows Off Dimon and Ties to Trump Amid Doubt on War, AI

Published on: 4 days ago

Silicon Valley’s alliance with the Trump administration will be on display Tuesday at a summit in Washington where business leaders’ calls to keep the US lead in artificial intelligence will be tested by growing public concern over AI’s economic impact and its use in the Iran war.

Financial Times
Business
Institution / OrganisationSoftBank
Focus AreaAI investment strategy and funding

SoftBank tests its own borrowing limits with $30bn bet on OpenAI

Published on: 4 days ago

Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments

Reddit
Community
Threadr/MachineLearning
Focus AreaCommunity

[N] Understanding & Fine-tuning Vision Transformers

Published on: 4 days ago

A neat blog post by Mayank Pratap Singh with excellent visuals introducing ViTs from the ground up. The post covers: * Patch embedding * Positional encodings for Vision Transformers * Encoder-only models ViTs for classification * Benefits, drawbacks, & real-world applications for ViTs * Fine

Bloomberg
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationIran
Focus AreaCyberattacks and AI security gaps

Iran War Drives Surge in Cyberattacks

Published on: 4 days ago

Iran-linked cyber attacks disrupting operations at companies , including Stryker, are raising new concerns for US businesses and exposing gaps in AI security. Cyberwar doesn’t stop when the fighting does. In fact, it escalates. Nadav Zafrir, CEO of Check Point joined Bloomberg Interest to talk about how AI is fueling faster, more powerful cyberattacks, and why the world is more vulnerable than it

Bloomberg
Business
Institution / OrganisationJPMorgan Chase
Focus AreaAI debt risk hedging

JPMorgan Offers Clients a New Way to Hedge AI Debt Risk

Published on: 4 days ago

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is offering clients a new way to bet against the debt of five hyperscalers, as investors seek more-liquid hedges amid an unprecedented borrowing spree to finance artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

Reddit
Community
Threadr/OpenAI
Focus AreaCommunity

Why do LLM workflows feel smart in isolation but dumb in pipelines?

Published on: 4 days ago

I’ve been noticing something while building. If I test a prompt alone, it works well. Even chaining 2–3 steps feels okay. But once the workflow grows, things start breaking in strange ways. Outputs are technically correct, but the overall system stops making sense. It feels less like failure a

Bloomberg
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationEuropean Central Bank
Focus AreaAI policy and EU economic strategy

ECB’s Lane Says AI Is Another Reason to Finish EU Savings Union

Published on: 4 days ago

Europe’s reliance on bank-based funding prevents the continent from reaping the full benefits of innovation centering on artificial intelligence, according to European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane.

Bloomberg
Business
Institution / OrganisationMeta
Focus AreaAI agent creation platform acquisition

Meta Hires Former Google, Stripe Executives Behind AI Startup Dreamer

Published on: 4 days ago

Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier this year to help people create their own AI agents.

Reddit
Community
Threadr/artificial
Focus AreaCommunity

How to Make Claude, Codex, and Gemini Collaborate on Your Codebase

Published on: 4 days ago

How to Make Claude, Codex, and Gemini Collaborate on Your Codebase | AiFeed24 https://share.google/oxBVZtWgMSgdg6uQX

The Guardian
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationN/A
Focus AreaAI regulation and societal impact

Do we have to keep talking about AI? The machines are always one step ahead | Zoe Williams

Published on: 4 days ago

Whether you want to free it or regulate it into submission, one thing is clear: this new technology is moving so fast that we can’t fully grasp itAt an 80th birthday party at the weekend, I met an academic who was evasive about his field. When he finally disclosed “computer science”, I asked him why he hadn’t wanted to say, and he replied: “Because I cannot have one more conversation about AI.” I

Bloomberg
Business
Institution / OrganisationFirmus Technologies
Focus AreaIPO preparation and governance

Nvidia-Backed Firmus Names Three Directors Ahead of Mooted IPO

Published on: 4 days ago

Australian artificial-intelligence start up Firmus Technologies Pty. appointed three new company directors ahead of an expected initial public offering later this year.

The Guardian
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationNot specified
Focus AreaAI in geopolitics and media

Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik

Published on: 5 days ago

What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hitThe war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East and the global economy, is not real. This is how it is being portrayed by the Trump administration. The war is a video game, a spectator sport, a social media festival of dunking. The architects of this war have made a virtue out

Reddit
Community
Threadr/artificial
Focus AreaCommunity

Is AI becoming a bubble, and could it end like the dot-com crash?

Published on: 5 days ago

Lately, I’ve had a strong feeling that AI is being inflated more and more like a bubble. What especially stands out is that right now a huge amount of investor attention and capital seems to be flowing into AI above almost everything else. For many startups, it feels like simply adding the word “AI

MIT Tech Review
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationWhite House
Focus AreaAI policy and regulation

The Download: animal welfare gets AGI-pilled, and the White House unveils its AI policy

Published on: 4 days ago

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers arrived in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in…

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