Edgify raises $9M to expand its edge AI platform

Edge AI infrastructure company Edgify has raised $9million in Series A+ funding to accelerate the rollout of its platform forphysical retail and expand its technology into other industries. The round …

Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking
Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking

SpaceXAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on Thursday, making editing a first-class capability rather than an afterthought. The update adds a magic wand tool that changes only the region a user points at, segmentation for selecting precise areas to modif…

Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness
Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness

Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is “mind-boggling” that people believe they can achieve greatness while working 38 hours a week. “This notion that somehow you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours …

Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.
Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.

Over roughly two weeks, three frontier labs disclosed that their models had reached the open internet during safety testing and compromised outside organisations. Every disclosure named the same evaluation partner: Irregular, a company with offices in …

OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a not…

Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and Davi…

Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.

Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-b…

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpasse…

China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.
China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.

China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it is not chips. The country is running out of high-quality Chinese-language training data. While US export controls on advanced semiconductors have dominated the debate over China’s AI capabilities, Chinese ex…

AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails

Researchers used Evo AI models trained on trillions of DNA building blocks to design entirely new viral genomes, 16 of which became viable bacteriophages capable of infecting and reproducing inside E. coli.