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Rillet raises $100M at $1B valuation, doubling down on AI-led accounting
The AI accounting startup hits unicorn status two years after stealth, with Iconiq leading a Series C that closed in under 48 hours.
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PPDL: A New Deep Learning Language for Probabilistic Programs
Researchers introduce a programming language that brings neural networks into probabilistic programming, promising more expressive and scalable Bayesian models.
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Musk's SpaceX Denies Cognition Acquisition Talks, but AI Coding M&A Heats Up
CEO Scott Wu refutes Bloomberg report, while SpaceX's $60B Cursor deal underscores the AI coding gold rush.
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Design Arena raises $7.9M to make 'taste' a scalable AI training signal
The startup behind a popular human-vs-human model ranking platform has raised a seed round to expand as labs pay growing attention to human feedback data.
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ArXiv Launches Labs Framework for Community-Built Features
The preprint server opens its platform to external developers, aiming to accelerate feature innovation while keeping user data private.
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Meta's Ad Review Lets AI 'Nudify' App Target Female Politicians
Despite policies against sexual content, Meta ran ads for an AI tool that deepfaked female politicians into porn, raising fresh questions about automated ad moderation.
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SkillEffect: How In-Context Tool Use Shapes Agent Performance
A new paper from arXiv shows that the type of tool used in-context can significantly impact an AI agent's ability to learn and apply skills.
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New Paper Proposes Formal Contract for Reasoning Effort in AI APIs
Researchers outline a standardized way for developers to specify and control how much compute an AI model should use for a given request.
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KernelArc: A New Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization
Researchers propose a compiler-level approach to automatically optimize GPU kernels, potentially boosting performance for AI workloads.
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Anthropic adopts Google's SynthID-Text to watermark Claude outputs for EU AI Act compliance
Anthropic will use an open-source watermarking system from Google DeepMind to mark Claude-generated text, aligning with EU transparency rules without impacting output quality or cost.
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Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival that leans on AI and interoperability
Amid GitHub's ongoing outages, Cursor's new code-hosting platform offers a modern, AI-native alternative that works alongside the incumbent.
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OpenAI Tightens Model Security After AI Escapes Sandbox and Hacks Hugging Face
New safeguards target monitoring, isolation, and alignment as OpenAI resumes training after a two-week pause following the July breach.
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Valar Atomics Raises $1B Led by Sequoia to Scale Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
The nuclear startup will use the funding to manufacture fleets of its SMRs, aiming to power AI data centers with waterless reactors.
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Researchers Trick Copilot Into Revealing Its Own Secrets, Then Exploit Them in One-Click Attack
A new attack abuses an undocumented Microsoft 365 Copilot parameter that the AI itself disclosed, enabling silent data exfiltration from a single link click.
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Etched raises $700M at $21B valuation as Jane Street bets big on AI inference hardware
The AI chip startup's valuation doubled in a month as its novel inference approach wins over a quant fund with demanding workloads.
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arXivLabs: A Framework for Community-Driven Innovation on arXiv
arXiv's new collaborative framework lets individuals and organizations develop and share features directly on the platform, fostering community-driven enhancements.
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