Julie Bort
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on…
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
After IBM’s stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked…
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be…
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since…
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of…
OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had…
Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI
In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary…
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent…
Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI…