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Superhuman announced Tuesday that it has bought GPTZero, the Princeton‑origin AI‑detection platform that grew to more than 19 million users and $30 million in annual recurring revenue. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition adds GPTZero’s technology to Superhuman’s existing AI‑detector, a move the company says gives users “two AI detectors are better than one.” GPTZero’s founders, Edward Tian and Alex Cui, previously raised $13.5 million from investors including Uncork Capital and Footwork.Weiterlesen

MGX, the Abu Dhabi‑based investment firm built for the AI era, closed a $50 billion fund that draws money from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension plans and other institutional investors. The fund, one of the largest ever raised solely for artificial‑intelligence investments, is already backing frontier‑model developers, chip makers and data‑center operators, while its chairman Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan says the firm aims to surpass $100 billion in assets under management within years.Weiterlesen

Irish AI‑inference startup TensorX has raised €8 million to purchase Nvidia’s latest Blackwell B300 GPUs and broaden its Europe‑focused, GDPR‑compliant service. The funding, supplied by Darius Cubed Ventures, will fund hardware upgrades at its Dublin and Helsinki data centres and support a rollout to additional sites across the continent. TensorX’s platform, aimed at banks, hospitals and law firms, lets customers run open‑weight models without moving data outside the EU, addressing growing regulatory pressure for sovereign AI solutions.Weiterlesen

A recent dialogue among workers, journalists and tech commentators revealed starkly different views on artificial intelligence. Some employees say AI tools boost productivity, while others describe heightened surveillance and burnout. Voices like Cory Doctorow and Ars Technica acknowledge AI’s potential but warn of environmental costs, data‑scraping debates and looming copyright restrictions that could erase digital history.Weiterlesen

Google’s DeepMind unit is pouring $75 million into A24’s newly formed Labs team, a 20‑person group tasked with creating artificial‑intelligence tools for film production. The partnership gives A24’s filmmakers access to AI‑driven storyboarding and other creative applications while feeding the technology back into Google’s broader AI ecosystem. A24 Labs, led by former Adobe executive Scott Belsky, says the aim is to preserve artistic control, not to cut costs. The deal marks DeepMind’s first equity stake in a Hollywood studio and expands its research beyond video games into cinema.Weiterlesen

Anthropic announced a privacy‑policy update that will require a small subset of Claude users flagged for possible policy violations to upload government‑issued identification and a selfie or video for identity verification. Effective July 8, the change introduces the collection of facial geometry templates, a biometric data type covered by state privacy laws such as Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. The verification process is handled by Persona, a San Francisco‑based identity‑checking platform backed by Founders Fund. Anthropic says the measure offers a path to appeal for users rather than an outright ban.Weiterlesen

Anthropic announced that its upcoming privacy policy, effective July 8, will ask a limited group of Claude users to verify age and identity by uploading government-issued IDs and a selfie. The move, aimed at letting flagged accounts appeal suspensions rather than face outright bans, comes as the AI firm seeks to satisfy mounting regulatory demands and pressure from the Trump administration. The company will partner with verification service Persona, which will store the documents temporarily, though details on data deletion remain unclear.Weiterlesen

OpenAI announced Monday a new program called “Patch the Planet” that will pair its security tools with the expertise of Trail of Bits to help open‑source maintainers fix vulnerabilities faster. The initiative aims to reduce the flood of security reports that small project teams must triage, by having Trail of Bits engineers review findings, develop patches and tests, and embed reusable workflows. OpenAI will supply its Codex Security technology to support the effort. The collaboration targets the broader problem of insecure open‑source code that can ripple into commercial software.Weiterlesen

At Meta's Scale conference on Friday, Anthropic co‑founder Boris Cherny answered a heated question about "loops" with a decisive "yes, they're for real." Cherny outlined how AI agents are moving from writing code to prompting other agents that then generate code, and how continuous, self‑reinforcing loops could reshape software development. He described two internal loops—one optimizing architecture, another unifying duplicated abstractions—that submit pull requests autonomously. While praising the potential productivity gains, Cherny warned that the token‑intensive nature of perpetual loops could drive up costs for many firms.Weiterlesen

Getty Images announced a multi‑year agreement with OpenAI that will embed the stock‑photo giant’s licensed library into the AI company’s search and ChatGPT platforms. The move marks a stark reversal from Getty’s earlier bans on AI‑generated art and legal battles with other AI firms, signaling a new era of collaboration between traditional media licensors and generative‑AI services.Weiterlesen

The U.S. administration has placed an export restriction on Anthropic's latest AI system, Mythos, after a dispute over its potential use in surveillance and autonomous weapons. The ban follows a Pentagon designation of the company as a national‑security supply‑chain risk and comes amid heightened scrutiny of AI safety and export controls.Weiterlesen

SpaceX will provide Reflection AI with access to Nvidia’s latest GB300 AI chips at its Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, starting July 1 2026. The agreement pays $150 million each month through 2029, potentially totaling $6.3 billion, and includes a 90‑day termination clause after an initial three‑month period. Reflection, founded in 2024 by two former Google DeepMind researchers, touts the deal as a major boost for its open‑weight AI strategy, positioning it against larger contracts SpaceX holds with Anthropic and Google.Weiterlesen

OpenAI’s latest financial filing shows no debt and modest quarterly capital spending, but the AI firm also carries roughly $665 billion in long‑term purchase commitments that never appear on its balance sheet. The hidden liabilities, largely tied to compute rentals from Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and joint ventures, raise regulatory eyebrows as the company prepares a confidential SEC filing for a potential public debut valued at $852 billion.Weiterlesen

AMD announced today that its FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.1 (FSR 4.1) is now available for Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards built on the RDNA 3 architecture. The update promises sharper images and smoother frame rates for gamers using these older GPUs, arriving a month earlier than the company’s original July target. AMD also said it is developing lightweight machine‑learning models to extend FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3 APUs and plans to bring the technology to RDNA 2 cards in early 2027. More than 300 games already support the new upscaler, with titles such as Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced slated for July releases.Weiterlesen

The White House ordered Anthropic to pull its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline after a Friday‑issued export‑control directive cited vague national‑security risks. The move, prompted by a tip from Amazon researchers who allegedly bypassed the models’ guardrails, has sparked a backlash from cybersecurity experts who say the shutdown harms U.S. defenders. Anthropic, already at odds with the administration, complied despite uncertainty over who qualifies as a foreign national. Industry observers warn the action could reshape competition among leading AI labs.Weiterlesen

Amazon MGM Studios has abandoned Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished movie "Artificial," a dramatization of Sam Altman's 2023 ouster and reinstatement at OpenAI. The decision arrives four months after Amazon pledged $50 billion to the AI startup as part of a $110 billion funding round that made AWS the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI's enterprise platform. While the studio praised Guadagnino’s talent, it said the film would be better served by another distributor. Insiders note the film’s darker tone and unflattering portrayals of Altman and Elon Musk may have contributed to the move.Weiterlesen

The Norwegian government will bar children younger than 13 from using generative artificial‑intelligence tools in school beginning in September. Grades 1‑7 will have no access to AI platforms such as Claude, while pupils aged 13 and up may use the technology only after teachers receive specific training. Officials say the move protects basic literacy and numeracy skills, which have been slipping in recent years, and guards against uncritical reliance on AI. The restriction follows earlier bans on phones and social‑media use for minors and mirrors similar steps in Australia and the United Kingdom.Weiterlesen

Barret Zoph, OpenAI’s head of enterprise AI sales, left the company in June 2026, just five months after rejoining in mid‑January. Zoph had briefly served as co‑founder and CTO of Mira Murati’s rival firm, Thinking Machines Lab, before returning to lead OpenAI’s push into enterprise customers ahead of a planned IPO. The departure follows a January split with Thinking Machines Lab amid allegations of an undisclosed relationship with a colleague. OpenAI confirmed the exit, noting Zoph’s farewell message on internal Slack, while the former executive has not responded to media inquiries.Weiterlesen

The U.S. Commerce Department told Anthropic on June 12 to block all foreign nationals from its advanced AI systems. Unable to isolate foreign users in real time, the company shut down its flagship models Mythos and its sibling Fable 5 for every customer worldwide. A handful of early testers, including security firms Dragos and Cisco, retained limited preview access, but Europe’s ENISA was forced out of the Glasswing program. The abrupt shutdown highlights the growing tension between rapid AI commercialization and national security concerns.Weiterlesen

Bland, the voice‑AI startup founded by Isaiah Granet and Sobhan Nejad, closed a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital. The round, which also included HubSpot Ventures and several angel investors, backs Bland’s strategy of running its own proprietary voice models and handling calls that last up to 45 minutes. The company says it now processes more than 3.5 million calls weekly for over 250 enterprise customers in healthcare, insurance and finance, positioning itself against rivals that focus on short, scripted interactions.Weiterlesen