OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents
This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business operations.
Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.”
Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers
The company’s modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.
The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would.
Many of hyperscalers have already made public commitments in to cover electricity cost increases.
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.
OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats
Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor ChatGPT for misuse.
Toyota hires seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory
The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing
“I think we’re the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site.”
SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links
Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.
Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.
“I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space.”