XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
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.
How to Build a Scholarship Research MCP Server with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
Scholarship hunting is a research job, not a single search box. You filter awards by field, GPA, citizenship, and deadline. You keep a shortlist. You write notes about essays and recommenders. Then yo
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
How AI Receptionists Work: The Architecture Behind AI Phone Agents
An AI receptionist may sound simple from the outside: a caller speaks, the system responds, and the conversation continues until the caller gets an answer or reaches a person. Behind that conversation
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
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.
What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s…
Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.
A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
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