Robinhood is launching a publicly traded fund that invests in Y Combinator startups. Anyone can buy shares.

Robinhood is launching a second publicly traded closed-end fund that will invest in private companies from the Y Combinator ecosystem. Robinhood Ventures Fund II filed to offer 7.6 million shares at $ [...]

AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.

The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nob [...]

The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.

Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its [...]

Anthropic pays AI’s biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money.

The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between lab [...]

A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.

A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a val [...]

Tesla whistleblower describes dangerous understaffing while testing Full Self-Driving in Houston

Javier Medrano, a former Tesla fleet operations manager, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company turned its Houston Full Self-Driving test fleet into 24/7 “rolling hazards” by aggressively sc [...]

Visa is buying BioCatch for $2.4 billion because AI scams now cost the global economy $1 trillion a year

Visa is acquiring Tel Aviv-based fraud detection startup BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash from private equity firm Permira and other investors. BioCatch’s platform analyses keystroke timing, touchs [...]

The White House says its AI framework is done. It will not say what is in it.

The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to complete a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. It will not say what the framework contains, who has seen it, or when companies [...]

The EU can now inspect AI models, block market access, and fine providers 3% of turnover. The grace period is over.

The European Commission gained enforcement powers over general-purpose AI models on August 2, ending the grace period for Chapter V of the EU AI Act. The Commission can now demand to evaluate models b [...]