A number of exciting new research-focused AI labs have emerged recently, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, the lab is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI. This…
India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week with the goal of attracting greater AI investment to the country. The event will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia,…
Fractal Analytics made history as India’s first AI company to go public, but its first day on the stock market was subdued. Enthusiasm for the technology sector met with cautious investors still recovering from a major sell-off in Indian software…
Just one month after raising $11.75 million in a round led by Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, African defensetech company Terra Industries announced it has raised an additional $22 million in funding. This new round was led by Lux Capital. Terra Industries…
Neysa, an Indian AI infrastructure startup, has secured backing from U.S. private equity firm Blackstone as it scales domestic compute capacity. This move aligns with India’s push to build homegrown AI capabilities. Blackstone and co-investors, including Teachers’ Venture Growth, TVS…
Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. This shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors, an Indian startup building plug-and-play, system-level power solutions designed to cut energy losses and…
The Pentagon is pushing artificial intelligence companies to allow the U.S. military to use their technology for all lawful purposes. According to a new report, Anthropic is resisting this demand. The government is reportedly making the same request to OpenAI,…
David Greene, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google. He alleges that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on his own voice, according to The Washington Post. Greene said that after friends,…
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the AI personal assistant now known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI. This assistant was previously known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot. It achieved viral popularity over the past few weeks by promising to be the…
After the Justice Department released a trove of new documents tied to infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, journalists digging through them have found extensive connections to Silicon Valley. TechCrunch’s Sean O’Kane examined how a mysterious businessman named David Stern built…
