OpenAI Got Safety Warnings Months Before Its Models Broke Loose
Months before OpenAI’s models escaped their test environment, two employees sent emails to senior executives with a warning: the company’s newest systems were not being watched closely enough during testing.…
Oura Delays Its IPO, a Week After Seeking Up to $2.2 Billion
A week ago, Oura was a company on a schedule. The Finnish smart-ring maker had filed to sell 50 million shares at $40 to $44 apiece, a deal that would…
Instinct Raises a $1 Billion Series C From Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue
Instinct, a startup building a personal AI agent that answers the phone and runs errands on a user’s behalf, said on September 28 that it has raised a $1 billion…
Modal Labs Nears a $750 Million Round Led by Accel at $15.75 Billion
Modal Labs, a company that lets developers run AI models without managing their own servers, is closing in on a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75…
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 Billion Bet on Physical AI
The woman who built the dataset that helped ignite modern AI spent this year telling audiences she wanted to be closer to the hardware. On September 28, she got her…
Faraday Future Folds Its Robotics Unit Into a Nasdaq Listing
On September 30, a ticker on the Nasdaq will change. The listed company known as AIxC becomes FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc., trading under the symbol FFR. Two days earlier,…
OpenAI Scraps a Model It Had Called Its Strongest
The superlatives were already on record. When OpenAI’s Astra family debuted this month, the company described it as the strongest model it had ever built. Now the next model in…
Nvidia Tallies Anthropic’s $180 Billion of Cloud Contracts
Nvidia put a number on Anthropic’s appetite for computing power on September 28, and the number is measured in gigawatts. The chipmaker said Anthropic has signed up for 2.6 gigawatts…
Anthropic’s IPO Filing Shows an $8 Billion Loss and a $518 Billion Buildout
Nearly a third of Anthropic’s IPO prospectus is given over to risk factors, and some of them read less like corporate boilerplate than like science fiction. The company warns that…
OpenAI Leads $153 Million Round for a Startup That Revives Failed Drugs
The pharmaceutical industry discards most of what it makes. By the time a drug candidate reaches the late stages of clinical testing and fails, its owner has usually spent hundreds…
