Positron Raises $875 Million at $5 Billion Valuation
Positron raises $875 million in a Series C financing that values the AI-inference chip startup at $5 billion after the new money. The September 10 announcement gives the Nevada ...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services With GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with GPT-6 Astra, built-in market data and tools for producing research, financial models and client materials. The tailored ChatG...
NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model Launches for Moon Mapping
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model launches for Moon mapping as an open-source AI system trained on decades of orbital observations. NASA and IBM say it can help researchers lo...
India Plans AI Agent Registry for UPI Payments
India plans an AI agent registry for UPI payments, creating a proposed identity and monitoring layer for software that can spend on a user’s behalf. Three people involved in the...
DeepSeek Launches V4.1-Flash With 890-Byte KV Cache
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash as a multimodal mixture-of-experts model built to reduce the memory cost of long-context inference. Its published architecture uses an 890-byte-per-...
Microsoft Bans AI Companions Under New School Privacy Standard
Microsoft bans AI companions under a new school privacy and safety standard negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers and New York City’s United Federation of Teachers...