Mate Security Raises $35M to Build an Open Foundation for AI Security Operations

Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding as enterprises look for new ways to operate security teams against attacks moving at machine speed. Canaan Partners led the round, with partici [...]

What to know about Moonshot AI and its new open-weight model Kimi K3

The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety. [...]

Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, [...]

Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line. [...]

PayPal turned down $53bn, and pointed to a beat and a $70 target

PayPal finally addressed the $53bn offer sitting on its table. Its answer was: not at that price. The company gave its first public response on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call, alongside a beat. Chief ex [...]

Anthropic is alone in every AI policy fight. It’s winning anyway.

Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nea [...]

The Verification Imperative in Recruitment’s Trust Crisis

Recruiters used to open a resume to look for a reason to say yes. Now they open it to look for a reason to doubt it. Nearly two-thirds of job candidates use AI in their applications, while 87% of US h [...]

Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer

"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji." [...]

Palantir debuts 'war' data center in a container, full of Nvidia's B300 AI accelerators and open-weight models

Palantir and Armada developed containerized AI data centers using Nvidia B300 accelerators, enabling battlefield processing without continuous cloud connectivity requirements. [...]