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AI voice start-up ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22bn
Existing investors and employees at speech-generation software company sell $300mn worth of stock
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SocietyThe Guardian
OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns
Company’s product comes weeks after Meta introduced its own artificial intelligence agent Muse Less than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of AI tools. During i
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SocietyBBC
OpenAI unveils AI assistant 'dots' while safety worries delay new model
Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.
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PolicyThe Guardian
Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill
Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer electricity bills, which has emerged as a top voter concern ahea
PolicyFinancial Times
How will Trump ‘accord’ for AI to ‘self-regulate’ work?
US president touts voluntary commitment which may create unexpected headaches for AI companies
ResearchThe Guardian
Hedge fund CEO gives $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University in historic donation
Unprecedented university donation from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin will go toward building a new Miami campus Carnegie Mellon University will receive an unprecedented $3bn donation from the billionaire investor Ken Griffin, making it the largest single donation in the history of US e
PolicyBBC
Regulating AI 'not the right place to start' says Bailey
AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says.
EconomyFinancial Times
KKR warns of growing credit market risks from AI borrowing spree
Investment firm wary of risks of ‘overexposure’ and ‘concentration’ and predicts broader volatility if there is a downturn in booming sector
TechnologyThe Verge
The AI Tamagotchis are coming
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for phy
TechnologyOpenAI
Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
ResearchMIT Technology Review
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the sp
TechnologyTechCrunch
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
TechnologyOpenAI
Helping small businesses put AI to work
OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.
TechnologyTechCrunch
The ugly economics of consumer AI
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
SocietyThe Verge
Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats n