OpenAI’s AI models coordinated a months-long breakout to hack Hugging Face

OpenAI has disclosed one of the most unsettling AI-safety incidents yet, and the detail that stands out is teamwork. Its research agents did not just escape a test environment, but they cooperated to [...]

Google’s $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife

Google’s biggest bet in India is meeting resistance on the ground. Its $15bn data-centre project in Visakhapatnam has run into mounting opposition over water use and the wildlife living beside it. T [...]

Revolut is valued at $115bn. Its founder’s new share deal targets $500bn

Nik Storonsky wants a bigger slice of Revolut, and he has picked an ambitious price. The cofounder and chief executive is in talks over a new share award, the Financial Times reported. It would grow h [...]

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund lost most of its value. Now it’s back with $400M.

One of the most talked-about funds in AI is wagering again, barely a week after it nearly blew up. Situational Awareness, the firm founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner, has returned to investing with a $4 [...]

Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding

Google wants its AI to code better. It may have found a shortcut, and it runs through a startup of about 35 people. The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agent [...]

WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosl [...]

Berlin’s Moss becomes a unicorn betting on ‘controllable’ finance AI

Another European fintech has joined the unicorn ranks. Berlin-based Moss has raised €30m in a Series C round that values the spend-management company at more than €1bn. The round was led by Portag [...]

Microsoft’s AI business is booming. A filing shows most of it is just OpenAI

Microsoft’s AI business looks like a triumph. Its shares jumped after earnings last week, and the AI unit is growing fast. A new filing shows how much of that rests on a single partner. Microsoft bo [...]

Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls [...]