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The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
26+ min ago (210+ words) The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI's most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company's enterprise agent platform launched just a…...
Encord raises €50M to build the data layer for physical AI
1+ week, 3+ day ago (407+ words) London-based data infrastructure startup Encord has closed a "50 million ($60 million) Series C funding round, led by Wellington Management, with participation from existing backers including Y Combinator, CRV, N47, Crane Venture Partners and Harpoon Ventures, alongside new investors Bright Pixel Capital and…...
Nobel Recruitment acquires Berlin’s ARRtist
1+ week, 3+ day ago (265+ words) The deal strengthens Nobel's position in Germany while expanding its reach beyond executive search into community building and ecosystem development. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded more than four years ago, ARRtist built a reputation as a space where operators…...
Opinion: Red lines and Red flags
1+ week, 3+ day ago (673+ words) How Anthropic's AI ethics put it at odds with the Pentagon The fierce standoff over Claude isn't just a contract fight. It's about who controls the future of military AI. In Washington and Silicon Valley, a conflict once relegated to…...
Alphabet handed Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (356+ words) The new deal ties Google's CEO to the future of its most ambitious bets, and signals that the board has finally decided they're bets worth making. Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015 and Alphabet since 2019. In that time, the company's…...
Nscale raises $2bn Series C at $14.6bn valuation
9+ hour, 37+ min ago (1050+ words) The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely…...
AI Changing SEO Tools
10+ hour, 55+ min ago (1348+ words) From Keyword Research to Autonomous Audits If you've been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you're not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed…...
Augur raises $15M to protect critical infrastructure
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (780+ words) A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe's transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of…...
Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (725+ words) The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3, "present,…...
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (756+ words) Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI's physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract…...