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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, a local version of its agentic Computer platform. It runs on hardware users already own, starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines with Nvidia RTX GPUs. The model, files, and execution stay on the device, local work consumes no billing credits, and the system asks permission before sending any step to a cloud frontier model. For Nvidia, the launch signals that local AI has moved from hobbyist curiosity to practical tool.
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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.