Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism. “There are Marxist overtones and…
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sidestepped investors’ questions about pre-order demand for the company’s long-awaited Specs smart glasses during Monday’s earnings call, just weeks before the device’s September launch event. “What we’re hearing from folks is really that they want to try Specs,” Spiegel told investors. “It’s obviously a high consideration purchase at $2,195. Obviously, developers…
Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to Superblocks will be able to offer vibe coding to the company’s business users, and those apps will…
Agents, MCP integrations, and LLM-powered applications are entering codebases faster than most security programs can track them. Mend.io’s new practitioner guide, ‘Securing AI agents, MCP servers & LLM apps: A practical framework’, targets that gap. It is organized around three moves: see what matters, fix what matters faster, protect AI in production and ships seven…
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer model journey is sparking on-line backlash as tensions over the usage of AI proceed. Over the weekend, OpenAI took what seems to be a handful of influencers to a luxurious retreat in upstate New York for what was known as “Summer time Membership.” There, the creators had been handled to farm-to-table dinners,…
Danielle Egan and Athena Leong know how to have fun. Between the two of them, they’ve organized a citywide scavenger hunt in San Francisco and turned a viral prank into an exclusive NYC restaurant for a night. They even created an alternative to a running club for socializing, dubbed a “sit club,” where people just…
Valar Atomics confirmed the whisperings that it was elevating an enormous spherical led by Sequoia on Monday. The startup’s founder and CEO Isaiah Taylor announced that the corporate has raised $1 billion in fairness, with Sequoia accomplice Shaun Maguire becoming a member of its board, and that it additionally secured a $200 million line of…
Steve Eimers has racked up hundreds of thousands of followers across platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and X. Under the moniker “The Guardrail Guy,” he posts about installation issues with guardrails lining roadways across the country. He began posting about guardrails in 2022, a few years after his 17-year-old daughter Hannah was killed when she collided…
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Sequence E at a $2 billion valuation, greater than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The San Francisco-based agency drew backing from returning traders NightDragon and NEA. The funding arrives as two main AI analysis labs disclosed final week that their fashions had breached methods exterior their…
Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner’s internet connection with strangers, potentially putting millions of Samsung smart TVs at risk of hijacking, according to new security research published on Monday. Some of these apps claim to have been installed on hundreds of millions of smart TVs in people’s homes, per…
