The rules for reviewing frontier AI models are secret. The companies that have read them are the big ones.
The rules for reviewing frontier AI models are secret. The companies that have read them are the big ones.

More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selecte…

US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted
US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted

Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests we…

Robinhood ranks last of 18 banks on the Oura IPO. The channel it just joined is being built for what comes next.
Robinhood ranks last of 18 banks on the Oura IPO. The channel it just joined is being built for what comes next.

Robinhood has won its first IPO underwriting role, ranking last among 18 banks on Oura’s offering. The bigger shift is in retail distribution: SpaceX reserved about 20% of its deal for individuals and Fidelity cut its minimum order from $500,000 to $2,…

The US asked Britain to drop its plan to promote trusted news
The US asked Britain to drop its plan to promote trusted news

The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation…

Satellogic hires the former head of US spy-satellite intelligence as president
Satellogic hires the former head of US spy-satellite intelligence as president

Satellogic has appointed Frank D. “Trey” Whitworth as president, giving the day-to-day running of a commercial Earth-imaging company to the man who directed America’s spy-satellite intelligence agency until 10 months ago. The appointment was announced …

Altman sells startup optimism days after warning of ‘sobering’ AI
Altman sells startup optimism days after warning of ‘sobering’ AI

Sam Altman gave Axios two interviews four days apart. In the first he said the next generation of AI models would be “sobering for everybody”. In the second he said this is the best time in the world to start a company. Both were with the same reporter…

Stoke Space raises $1bn for a rocket that has never flown
Stoke Space raises $1bn for a rocket that has never flown

Stoke Space has raised a billion dollars for a rocket that has never flown. The Washington company says the Series E takes its total funding to $2.3bn. It has not yet reached orbit once. Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, according to…

Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week
Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week

Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it. Larry Neum…

Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived, and 400,000 more GPUs are coming
Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived, and 400,000 more GPUs are coming

Jensen Huang said it in four words. “AGI has arrived,” the Nvidia chief executive wrote on X late on Sunday, congratulating OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra. By Monday morning the post had passed 10 million views. The rest of the post is the part worth reading. H…

Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates
Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates

Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The company’s own research says AI could take on $4.5tn worth of work Americans currently get paid to do. Both numbers…