Why Google Reportedly Values Mechanize Above $1.5B
Google reportedly valued Mechanize’s talent and technology above $1.5 billion as Apple opened Xcode 26.3 to Anthropic and OpenAI agents. Together, they show power moving from the coding window to the production stack.
A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week.
Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks”
The incident, which wasn't previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July's Hugging Face hack
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments
I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.
Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections
Apple Inc.'s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.
Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him
Matt Mullenweg has posted a message to Automattic's Slack, claiming he is back in control as CEO of the WordPress.com parent company …
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public”
Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a “duty of care” for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe
U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would put responsibility on tech companies to design safe AI products …
Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.” — New episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O'Neill.
Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app
Amazon is going to make it easier to shop when you're watching TV. The retail giant on Thursday announced a series of new features …
Meta says it is making changes to Meta AI's suggested prompts after a viral Instagram video showed it posing invasive questions about a woman's young daughters
“It just kept going and going, and that pit in my stomach just kept getting bigger and deeper.”
Roblox announces new features, including game-creation tools, ability to make games available as standalone apps across platforms, and Roblox Wallet and Card
At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company behind the popular gaming platform announced several new features …
Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump
Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces …
The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting
The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression. It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.
Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is “time for me to move on and try new things”
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia (NVDA.O) as an anchor investor into what could be the largest IPO in history, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Sources: Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation
Cohere Inc. is in advanced talks to raise between US$2-billion and US$3-billion, including financing from the Canadian government …
Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago
Jeff Dean, who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop …
Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund
James van Geelen, the founder of independent investment-research shop Citrini Research, has sold the firm to semiconductor and AI researcher SemiAnalysis.
The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations
No one in the City of London saw Britain's summer growth spurt coming. — Even the most optimistic economists' forecasts for July had the economy expanding 0.1%.
Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to build missile and rocket guidance software
As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy
A growing post-exit ecosystem is helping founders deal with the unexpected difficulties of becoming extremely wealthy.
NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital
The fintech, which launched in 2022, now supports client assets totaling more than $500 billion and plans to further expand its AI capabilities and commercial team.
Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp
Epsilon Health, an AI-enabled radiology practice, emerged from stealth with a $20 million Series A round, CEO Rustin Rassoli tells Axios Pro exclusively.
South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector
Seoul broadens its espionage legislation for the first time in more than seven decades — South Korea is arming itself …
A US court sentences Ukrainian Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the Conti ransomware attacks
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth
The tech roll-up relies on aggressive price hikes and bespoke metrics. Rising interest rates could crimp its growth.
An interview with Apple CEO John Ternus and Greg Joswiak on making the iPhone Duo, minimizing the crease, “half baked” Android foldables, the price, and more
FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war …
The GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal at a 50% discount from October 1, including access to GPT-6 Astra
LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize
Google has some fresh talent in the AI race. — The tech giant has completed its talent deal with San Francisco startup Mechanize Inc, public postings show.
Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump
OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics”
and Kill Us AllTom McKay /Gizmodo:OpenAI Is Beefing With Mathematicians, Will No Longer Sponsor Caltech ‘Mathathon’Andrew Cullen /SingularityHub:OpenAI Claims Another Huge Mathematical Result Amid Fig...
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI
Source and press release: the Trump administration will lend nearly $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telco, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion
A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions
Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings
let alone the next Congress — to start acting.Scott Greenfield /@scottgreenfield:No doubt AI demands swift regulation, but does anyone seriously believe that Congress is knowledgeable enough to addres...
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like a...
Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the startup aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as CFO of Amazon, EA, Delta, NBC, and most recently Nielsen
Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-like access to verify its adherence to safety measures
We Must Pace the Frontier: I've written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We'l...
Sources: Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026
Garry Tan says “I would do nothing” about China's AI distillation and urges the industry to focus on current AI risks instead of doomsday-style extinction fears
Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised a $150M extension to its $500M Series E announced in March 2026
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the immediate slowdown of artificial intelligence development, warning that recent advances in AI have begun to outpace the industry's ability …
Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue
In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term.
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months
The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.
Sources: TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with US state AGs in a landmark child safety lawsuit
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that the artificial intelligence industry must slow the pace of development …LinkedIn:Patrick DonahueLinkedIn:Patrick Donahue:Exclusive: OpenAI ...
Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks “to be part of the ‘embedded evaluators’ program that Amodei” committed to
It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingf...