OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment
OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the Un…

Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived thr…

Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta engi…

Overwatch AI secures $1.5M to streamline airline operations

Overwatch AI, an aviation operationsplatform for pilots and airline crews, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seedfunding in a round backed by United Airlines Ventures, Baobab Ventures, Pegasus Innovation…

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at th…

Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem
Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem

Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the insatiable energy demands of AI data centres will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on Mond…

SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps
SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps

SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company’s blockbuster IPO proceeds on sched…

OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify
OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify

OpenAI has announced two new measures designed to help the public determine whether an image was created by its AI models. The company is formally joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard while simultaneously p…

H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training
H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training

H2O.ai has unveiled tabH2O, a foundation model purpose-built for tabular data that can generate high-accuracy predictions from structured datasets using a single API call, with no model training required. The company announced the product at Dell Techn…

US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities
US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities

Weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America’s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country’s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and t…