OpenAI is hiring an investment banker to teach its AI the job

OpenAI is recruiting an investment-banking expert to help train its AI on the trade. The job listing seeks a “subject matter expert” with at least two years of investment experience for its Appl [...]

Quaise raises $134M to drill superhot rock with microwaves

Geothermal used to mean shallow wells and modest heat. Quaise wants to drill kilometres down and blast the rock with microwaves, and it just raised $134 million to try. Quaise Energy has raised $134 m [...]

Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American

Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. “The strategy is not to dep [...]

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on de [...]

Lucid Motors replaces its CFO and overhauls its entire leadership team as new CEO reshapes the company

Lucid Motors said on Thursday that its chief financial officer, Taoufiq Boussaid, will be leaving the company, the latest in a series of leadership changes under new CEO Silvio Napoli. Alexander De Bo [...]

Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business

Kling AI, the video generation unit of Chinese tech company Kuaishou, has raised an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding, the company said on Thursday. Further investors could still [...]

Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing

A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the [...]

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided [...]

'Does He Think He's Real?' Social Media Reacts to Trump's Talk With AI Teddy Roosevelt

The current president chatted with a life-sized AI version of the 26th US president at the new Theodore Roosevelt presidential library. [...]