MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup’s MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
His change of position comes after “the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.”
AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development – or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could help create a dramatically better […]
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion – from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google’s new projected range – $195 billion – is much more than the company had previously […]
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.
Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world’s most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a “general-purpose digital worker” that can access local files and apps to perform […]
Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology – even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I’ve tested lots of these apps, from […]
Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That’s according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with […]