Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more
Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity
The financing includes a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities.
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech investor, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector
PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics
Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027
An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more
Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO
Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion …
Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year
Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement ending decades of conflict
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout
OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …