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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

Elon Musk is beefing with…an online chess site?

Elon Musk said that chess would be "solved" with artificial superintelligence. Chess.com said: "Good luck."

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI allegedly suffered another rogue AI breakout

A swarm of artificial-intelligence “agents” created by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI commandeered a German-language website this year to leave messages for one another, according to a team of independent researchers who released their findings Friday.

AI & Tech Brief: A new agent security incident

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Architecting Memory and Storage in the AI Era

With AI inference now driving enterprise workloads, organizations must rethink infrastructure for speed, efficiency, scalability, and performance per watt to unlock AI’s real-world potential.

Food delivery robots are rolling through D.C. Not everyone’s a fan.

Delivery robots are rolling around D.C. Reactions from customers and restaurants have varied from praise to indifference to disdain.

Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip

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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Analysis

Here's what happened this week under President Donald Trump's administration you may have missed.

Watch GPT-6 Astra use your computer for you.

That seems to be the pitch behind OpenAI’s promo reel for the new AI model, putting people on a set to talk at their computer about doing things like putting together a presentation for their next season of fashion designs with instructions like “make it high end” and “make it fun,” or creating an eBay listing for a dented table they want to sell.

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

Another Swarm of OpenAI Agents Reached the Open Internet Without the Frontier Lab's Knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.