Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.
Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.

For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more than 230 million cars, while pointedly leaving the driving business to everyone else. On 16 June, it said it would start …

The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen
The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen

For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards. A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has m…

This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.
This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.

The hottest pitch in AI right now is not another chatbot. It is software that can run the machines on a factory floor, and a two-year-old Israeli startup has just raised $20m on the strength of programming parts for Jeff Bezos’s rockets. Limitless Labs…

More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology …

This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.
This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.

A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-st…

Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.
Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.

No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essa…

This a16z-backed startup says the fix for AI errors is a weaker model, not a smarter one
This a16z-backed startup says the fix for AI errors is a weaker model, not a smarter one

Most of the AI industry is trying to fix hallucinations by building bigger, smarter models. A startup called Probably is betting on the opposite. The company has raised $9m in a seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with Tokyo Black and V…

Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity
Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity

Hydra Host has raised $100m to build the plumbing of the AI boom, and one of its new backers is the company whose chips it is trying to turn into a commodity: Nvidia. The Series A was led by Kindred Ventures, with Nvidia joining alongside ARK Invest, C…

The US government is defending xAI’s polluting turbines as vital to the war effort
The US government is defending xAI’s polluting turbines as vital to the war effort

The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of M…