The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China’s new Kimi K3 model. With its trillions of parameters, it’s just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it’s cheaper. But it’s not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control.
AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…
The next big customer for a payments company may not be a person at all. It may be an AI agent, and a startup called Natural has raised $30 million to serve it. The Series A was led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures, and closed when Natural was j…
Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical layer that carries its cloud and AI services. The system links Sines, on Portugal’s so…
OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it …
Iceland-based AI startup Sowilo has raised a pre-seedfunding round to support the expansion of Catecut, its fashion productintelligence platform, and the global launch of its Shopify app. The roundinc…
Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief ex…
If you run a WordPress site, the advice this week is blunt: update it now. Two flaws in the software are under active exploitation across the internet. WordPress powers more than half of every website online, so the blast radius is huge. Security firms…
The settlement was finally approved by a U.S. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own.
The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Ba…