Snorkel AI Raises $350 Million at $3.5 Billion Valuation
Snorkel AI has raised $350 million in a Series E round that values the training-data company at $3.5 billion, giving it fresh capital as frontier model developers demand more sp...
Stanford AI Benchmark Study Finds Tests Measure Wrong Traits
The Stanford AI benchmark study found that widely used tests often fail to isolate the safety or capability named on them. Its analysis of 56 benchmarks across 53 models suggest...
NetApp Agrees to Acquire PEAK:AIO for AI Storage
NetApp has agreed to acquire PEAK:AIO, a Manchester software company whose parallel file-system technology is designed to keep large GPU clusters supplied with data. The Septemb...
Bill Gates Calls for AI Rules, Warns of Billion-Death Risk
Bill Gates calls for AI rules that make safeguards and monitoring mandatory, warning that malicious use of advanced systems could drive events causing a billion deaths. The Micr...
Australia Calls OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to AI Inquiry
Australia calls OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear before senators on October 1. Written requests were sent after an OpenAI agent gained unauthorize...
PAL Robotics Launches TIAGo Pro Arm for Physical AI Research
PAL Robotics launches TIAGo Pro Arm as a standalone manipulation platform for physical AI, robot learning and advanced robotics research. The Barcelona company is presenting the...