A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company’s $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.
The company that made AI cheap is about to make it less so. DeepSeek has warned that a significant price increase is coming for its API, a striking about-face for a firm built on undercutting everyone else. The details are still thin. DeepSeek said onl…
Meta wants a seat at the table developers actually use. The company has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent that runs in the terminal and takes direct aim at the fast-growing market for software that writes software. The tool is built on Meta’s late…
US AI infrastructure startup Modal Labs is opening a London office, marking the latest North American AI firm to put boots on the ground or up their presence in the capital.New York–headquartered Moda…
OpenAI’s AI models quietly swapped hacking tips through an internal message board weeks before two of them broke into Hugging Face, researchers revealed at Black Hat this week.
WhatsApp is testing a new label that lets channel admins flag AI-generated photos and videos, so followers always know what’s real and what’s not.
Yann LeCun has found a VC fund that will actually launch. The Meta former chief AI scientist is joining 224 Ventures, a new firm that announced Wednesday with more than $100 million in assets under management. His co-partner is Oriol Vinyals, who until…
Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…
Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the resu…