Aleph Alpha’s former CEO lures Apple engineer from US to join European startup

The co-founder and former CEO of high-profile German AI startup Aleph Alpha has today revealed fresh details about his new AI startup, which launched last month and is backed by a multi-million-dollar…

Qumulo launches Cork hub to build the backbone of AI-scale data

Today data storage and cloud infrastructure company Qumulo announced the official launch of its European Software R&D hub in Cork. Through this strategic expansion, Qumulo will create 50 highly sk…

Hiro Capital boss on LeCun, Clegg, and AI investing

The boss of the VC firm that hit the headlines when it snapped up Yann LeCun and Nick Clegg says it invested around €50m in a co-leading investment in LeCun’s much-hyped world model startup AMI Labs, …

March Madness, Revisited: The AI Model Did Well. But Mad Things Still Happen

(NOTE: This article is part of an ongoing series documenting an experiment with using AI to fill the NCAA brackets and see how it fares against years of human experience. The original article is as follows.) A week ago, I wrote about entering an NCAA t…

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

Google is launching “switching tools” that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.

OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation
OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation

Isara, a San Francisco startup that is building software to coordinate thousands of AI agents on complex analytical tasks, has raised $94 million at a $650 million valuation, with OpenAI among the investors. The company was founded nine months ago by t…

Next-gen AI breakthrough promises chatbots that can read the room better

This new AI approach teaches chatbots to focus on emotionally important words and link them to the right subject, helping them better understand nuanced messages and respond more appropriately.

ChatGPT is not getting an erotic mode, after all

ChatGPT’s proposed “adult mode” is now on indefinite hold, with OpenAI prioritizing core tools instead. The company says it needs more research on risks like emotional dependency and explicit content.