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$40B into the furnace: As OpenAI adds a million users an hour, the race for enterprise AI dominance hits a new gear

In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion -- ...

VentureBeat - 3d

I asked an AI swarm to fill out a March Madness bracket — here’s what happened

How 50 random sports fans created a highly-accurate March Madness bracket through real-time conversational deliberation.

VentureBeat - 2d

An AI 'gold rush.' What to know about OpenAI's record $40-billion funding round

The latest $40-billion investment round will bring the ChatGPT's valuation to $300 billion.

Los Angeles Times - 1d

Senate Democrats open investigation into reports AI could replace contract workers at Education Department

Senate Democrats are opening an investigation into reports that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is attempting to replace some contract workers at the Education Department ...

The Hill - 1d

Beyond generic benchmarks: How Yourbench lets enterprises evaluate AI models against actual data

Hugging Face warned that Yourbench is compute intensive but this might be a price enterprises are willing to pay to evaluate models on their data.

VentureBeat - 1d

Devin 2.0 is here: Cognition slashes price of AI software engineer to $20 per month from $500

Devin attracted interest from enterprise customers seeking to incorporate autonomous coding agents into their software development processes.

VentureBeat - 8h

Inside 'Maybe Happy Ending,' the revolutionary robot musical that has Broadway audiences aglow

This intimate spectacle was a hit in Asia for years, before the isolation of the pandemic and the existential threat of AI. The Times spoke with the cast and creative team about the musical's ...

Los Angeles Times - Mar. 27

CoreWeave shares slump nearly 10% in second day of trading

CoreWeave rents out access to Nvidia graphics processing units to other large tech and AI companies including Meta, IBM and Cohere.

CNBC - 3d

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what hope there is for superintelligence safeguarding democracy.

Wired - 2d

Futureverse teams with Story in Web3 technology deal

Futureverse, a AI and metaverse technology company, has signed a memorandum of understanding to do an intellectual property deal with Web3 firm PIP Labs.

VentureBeat - 15h

Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course

Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk's AI startup xAI.

Wired - 6d

Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name ‘Grok’

Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.

Wired - 3d

Bipartisan push needed to protect government devices from China's DeepSeek

The No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act aims to protect federal employees and sensitive government data from the Chinese Communist Party's DeepSeek AI platform, which has been accused of luring ...

The Hill - 3d

Sinema joins law firm as senior adviser

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has joined Hogan Lovells' global regulatory and intellectual property team as a senior adviser. The firm highlighted her experience in AI, technology, digital assets, ...

The Hill - 3d

OpenAI closes $40B funding round

OpenAI raised $40 billion from investors in its latest funding round, the ChatGPT maker announced Monday. The deal, which values the artificial intelligence (AI) company at $300 billion, was led ...

The Hill - 2d

UFC signs multimillion-dollar partnership deal with Meta

UFC signed a multimillion-dollar partnership deal Tuesday with Meta, Facebook's parent company, with the goal of restructuring its fan experience to include artificial intelligence (AI). UFC will ...