AI

Kevin Weil, former OpenAI CPO and Planet Labs president, joins Stoke Space board as the startup builds fully reusable Nova rocket to compete with SpaceX.

Former DeepMind exec Verity Harding tells WIRED the US government’s nationalistic AI attitude is evidence a worst-case scenario is taking shape. She urges international cooperation.

ZML, the French AI startup founded by Yann LeCun, launches LLMD, a free LLM inference server that runs across Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc chips, backed by $20M.

SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation in Series F led by General Atlantic, with JPMorgan as inference partner. The AI chip startup secures funds 5 months after previous round.

Meta’s Muse Image model opts in public Instagram accounts for AI remixes. Users must manually opt out via settings; no notification is given for generated images.

Joshua Achiam, OpenAI’s chief futurist, departs after nearly nine years. He led mission alignment, testified in Musk trial, and joins a wave of safety-focused exits.

Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang’s theory on AI life cycles: frontier models prove use cases, open source runs them. Data shows Anthropic still dominates spend despite open source token surge.

Discord admits an AI moderation bug wrongfully banned over 8,000 users for harmless images like game textures and spreadsheets. Accounts are being restored.

Savi Security raises $7M, launches app to block AI-generated scams. FTC lost $3.5B to imposter scams in 2025. Live-call monitoring and family pricing at $63/year.

Forterra deployed over 100 autonomous ATVs in Ukraine, carrying 777,440 lbs of cargo and completing 52 casualty evacuations in 9 months of combat.