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Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
Source: TechCrunch · Rebecca Bellan
SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.
OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
Source: TechCrunch · Julie Bort
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.
Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.
Source: TechCrunch · Marina Temkin
TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.
Source: WIRED · Isabella Ward, Anna Desmarais
New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
Source: TechCrunch · Sarah Perez
Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.
Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.
Source: TechCrunch · Ram Iyer
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.