The Justice Division has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz concerning the agency’s companions serving on the boards of competing corporations, Bloomberg reported. The practically year-long investigation focuses particularly on the agency’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at $190 billion, and Fivetran, which mixed with dbt Labs in June. The agency’s co-founder, Ben…
For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up. The AI startup, which is now…
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an open-source project that takes a supported Hugging Face or local checkpoint to end-to-end TensorRT inference in two commands. There is no intermediate ONNX export step. The build produces a versioned .bundle artifact that runs through native C++ task APIs, so inference can execute in…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements new procedures meant to address cybersecurity risks. The ChatGPT maker says it is introducing a number of new monitoring, security, and alignment requirements to better address the increasingly advanced hacking…
TikTok is developing a feature that would allow users to send each other money via direct messages, according to a new report from Bloomberg. If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases. References to the potential feature were…
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process. “As models become more capable, the risks associated with…
It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that it says is capable of automating cutting-edge coding and cybersecurity tasks almost as well as the best publicly available models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model, GLM 5.3, could…
Etched on Tuesday announced that it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street after the famed quant fund tested and bought the startup’s AI hardware. Even by AI standards, this valuation step-up is jaw-droppingly fast. Etched was valued at $5 billion in December. It raised a $300 million…
Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, the newest version of its real-time text-to-speech model. It arrives roughly three months after Sonic-3.5. The new change is naturalness, and this one is independently checkable. Sonic 3.6 now holds #1 on both Artificial Analysis speech leaderboards — 1,283 Elo on the Provider Voice board and…
Companies are still grappling with exactly how software development should work in the AI area, but one early answer is the so-called software factory. Essentially an agent loop that’s built around the traditional stages of software development, the software factory approach has become a popular way for companies to remake their engineering organizations for the…
