Anthropic Launches $35 Million Open-Source Fund and Expands Mythos 5 Access
The announcement on Aug. 24 paired a checkbook with a security update. Anthropic said it is launching a $35 million fund to support open-source AI development, and it expanded access…
Tesla to Open Nevada Semi Factory Next Month
The trucks will start rolling off the line in September. Tesla plans to begin operations at its new electric heavy-truck factory in Nevada next month, according to an Electrek report…
SEC Subpoenas Wall Street Banks Over Collapse of AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness
Over two days at the end of August, subpoenas went out to several of Wall Street’s largest banks. The recipient of the questions was not a bank itself, but a…
Alabama Attorney General Subpoenas OpenAI and Sam Altman in Data Breach Probe
The letter arrived in the offices of OpenAI and the home of its chief executive on Aug. 24. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced an investigation into the company and…
Trump Disclosed More Than 1,000 Stock Trades in June, Including a SpaceX Purchase
The disclosure, filed Aug. 24, runs to pages of ticker symbols and dates. It shows that Donald Trump completed more than 1,000 stock trades in June, a volume that would…
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Space Supercomputer With NVIDIA Vera Chips
The idea of putting a supercomputer in orbit has been discussed in engineering circles for decades, usually as a thought experiment about solar power and cooling. On Aug. 25, it…
Anthropic Pitches Investors on $30 Trillion Market Ahead of Planned IPO
The pitch begins with a number that dwarfs the global economy: more than $30 trillion. Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, plans to tell prospective investors that its…
Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents
The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…
Apple Cuts More Than 200 Jobs in Siri and Vision Pro Teams
The teams had been shrinking for months, and last week the reductions became explicit. Apple Inc. is eliminating more than 200 positions across the groups working on its Siri assistant…
