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Runway AI Inc. today introduced Gen-4, a new artificial intelligence model that can generate videos based on natural language prompts. New York-based Runway is backed by more than $230 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and other investors. The company …
Temporal raises $146M for its application reliability platform
Temporal Technologies Inc., a startup that helps developers protect their applications from outages, has raised $146 million in funding at a $1.72 billion valuation. The Series C investment was announced today. Tiger Global led the round with participation from Index Ventures, Sequoia …
Alphabet spinout Isomorphic Labs raises $600M for its AI drug design engine
Isomorphic Labs Inc., a healthcare startup that spun out of Alphabet Inc. in 2021, today announced that it has closed a $600 million funding round. OpenAI backer Thrive Capital led the investment. It was joined by Alphabet and GV, the search giant’s …
Elon Musk’s xAI acquires X at $33B valuation
Elon Musk today announced that xAI Corp. has acquired X Corp. in an all-stock transaction. The deal values X at $33 billion excluding debt, Musk (pictured) stated in a post on the social network. He added that xAI is now worth $80 …
Google pays $100M to settle class-action lawsuit over advertising practices
Google LLC has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that was filed in 2011 by customers of its AdWords advertising service. Reuters reported the development today, citing documents submitted to a federal court in San Jose, California, late …
DOGE reportedly planning to rewrite Social Security Administration’s software
The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, reportedly plans to rewrite the software that the U.S. Social Security Administration uses to make payments. Wired today cited sources as saying the initiative will focus on switching code written in COBOL to a …
OpenAI adds support for Anthropic’s MCP LLM connectivity protocol
OpenAI is rolling out support for MCP, an open-source technology that large language models can use to perform tasks in external systems and access the data they contain. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman announced the move on Wednesday. The development is …
Anthropic researchers reveal new findings on how LLMs ‘think’
Researchers from Anthropic PBC today published two papers that shed new light on how large language models perform processing. According to the company, the findings provide a better understanding of LLMs’ reasoning workflows. Additionally, the new research could improve how developers audit …
Report: Nvidia close to acquiring AI cloud provider Lepton AI in nine-figure deal
Nvidia Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire cloud startup Lepton AI Inc., The Information reported on Wednesday. Sources familiar with the matter told the publication that the deal could be worth several hundred million dollars. That would represent a major exit …
Amazon introduces AI-powered Interests feature for its e-commerce marketplace
Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out an artificial intelligence feature called Interests to help users discover products in its e-commerce marketplace. Daniel Lloyd, the company’s vice president of personalization, detailed the capability in a Tuesday blog post. It’s the latest in a series …