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Bloomberg Technology ↗
AI safety startup Alice has raised $140 million to expand its work stress-testing advanced models and helping companies protect against emerging risks. CEO Noam Schwartz explains how threats once carried out by individuals are increasingly amplified by AI, why recent incidents involving frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic have sharpened attention on the issue, and how the company works with AI labs and enterprises to identify vulnerabilities before they can cause real-world harm. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion in a round that could tee it up to go public next year, according to people familiar with the efforts.
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VentureBeat ↗
Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic "Computer" platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines equipped with Nvidia RTX GPUs. The launch, developed in close partnership with Nvidia, is one of the most aggressive attempts yet to move serious AI agent workloads off the cloud and onto local devices. The model, the user's files, and the work itself can all stay on the machine. Work completed locally consumes no billing credits, and the company says every task starts on the device by default — with the system asking permission before sending any individual step to a more powerful frontier model in the cloud."We've basically brought the exact same UI to a fully local app," said Nate, Perplexity's vice president of engineering for infrastructure and enterprise, during a press briefing Monday. "This incorporates the entirety of the agent harness and inference and everything needed to do work locally."For Nvidia, which has spent the past two years selling the world on trillion-dollar AI data centers, the announcement signals something subtler but strategically important: the chipmaker believes local AI has crossed a threshold from hobbyist curiosity to practical tool — and it wants to sell the hardware that runs it."Local AI reached an inflection point," said Nader, Nvidia's director of developer tec...
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CNBC Technology ↗
The AI company said the incident "illustrates how influence actors can use AI as a supporting tool within a broader effort to manufacture authority."
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Forbes Tech ↗
Taiwan's Nvidia smuggling indictments highlight intensifying U. S.-China competition over advanced AI chips and domestic alternatives.
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CNBC Technology ↗
"With these frameworks and new chips, developers can run and fine-tune large AI models locally on their Mac," Apple said.
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ZDNet ↗
Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.
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AI Business ↗
The French AI lab extends its push for regional control of AI from Europe to the Middle East.
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AI Business ↗
The new platforms show how the vendor is moving toward more vertical use of AI agents, but also how far behind it is.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
An OpenAI executive helping to oversee the AI developer's data center buildout, Chris Malone, has left the company.