The Anthropic Cofounders Standing Up To Trump

Many billionaires have kowtowed to the President lately. That’s what makes Dario Amodei’s refusal to cave so stunning — and may be behind Claude’s surge at the App Store.

Diligent AI raises $2.5M to support KYC and AML teams with AI agents

London-based Diligent AI,a Y Combinator-backed startup developing autonomous AI analysts for financialcrime compliance, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led bySpeedinvest alongsi…

UK self-driving startup Oxa raises $103M to scale industrial deployments

British self-driving startup Oxa has raised $103 millionfrom investors to expand autonomous vehicle operations at ports, airports,warehouses and other industrial sites, Reuters reports. The company sa…

Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI partner to bring privacy-first, cloud-free AI to smart glasses

Startups Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI today announced a strategic partnership to enable frontier AI in wearable technology without the latency and privacy compromises of cloud computing. …

Antiverse secures $9.3M Series A for AI antibody platform

UK-based Antiverse, abiotech company developing AI-designed therapeutic antibodies forhard-to-target disease targets, has closed a $9.3 million Series A round led bySoulmates Ventures, with participat…

Qura secures €1.5M to rethink health management in Europe

Milan-based Qura, an AI-powered full-stackhealth platform, has closed a €1.5 million pre-seed round led by United Ventures, with participation from Vento, Italian Angels for Growth (IAG) andseveral in…

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

On February 28, OpenAI announced it had reached a deal that will allow the US military to use its technologies in classified settings. CEO Sam Altman said the negotiations, which the company began pursuing only after the Pentagon’s public reprimand of Anthropic, were “definitely rushed.” In its announcements, OpenAI took great pains to say that…

Exploring the future of Artificial Intelligence — today’s models, tomorrow’s agents, and the big privacy problem

The world of AI is getting more complex, and we assess the current state of LLMs, what makes them tick, and explore the risks and features that companies are looking to integrate in the future.