Key Takeaways: OpenAI has opened applications for a $5 million research grant program focused on how generative AI influences the lives and development of teenagers aged 13 to 17. Individual grants can be worth up to $1 million, giving selected researchers room to conduct work that goes beyond small pilot studies
Key Takeaways: Arm has introduced CSS for Mobile 2, an integrated compute platform designed to support persistent AI agents and neural graphics within smartphone power and thermal constraints. Announced September 8, the platform brings together the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU, an Arm C2 CPU cluster, enhanced system I
Key Takeaways: South Korea is moving generative AI from a consumer subscription product toward something closer to national digital infrastructure. Its "AI for Everyone" initiative is designed to give roughly 52 mil...
Key Takeaways: Mistral AI has secured €3 billion, about $3.3 billion to $3.5 billion, in a Series D funding round led by Samsung Electronics. The transaction values the French foundation model developer at more than €21 billion after the investment, equivalent to roughly $24 billion. The financing is being describ
Key Takeaways: Cardinal Robert W. McElroy used a Labor Day Mass in Washington to challenge business leaders, policymakers and labor representatives to address a difficult uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence: whether technological progress will leave enough meaningful work for people. “Will there be mea
Key Takeaways: The unified communications as a service (UCaaS) market is facing a fundamental identity crisis. After years of intense competition that has commoditized traditional phone seat pricing, providers and t...
Key Takeaways: A House Democrat seeking to lead her party’s approach to artificial intelligence policy sent a warning Friday to technology CEOs attempting to undermine policymaking efforts, signaling a sharper political response to industry pressure in Washington. The warning highlights a widening conflict over wh
Key Takeaways: Perfect prevention was already an unrealistic security objective. Frontier AI is making the limitations of that strategy considerably harder to ignore. Cisco has tested a range of frontier models against 1.8 billion lines of code across its portfolio, covering 25 programming languages in eight weeks
Key Takeaways: Nature Methods has revisited artificial intelligence in biology just two years after publishing a special issue on advanced AI, a short interval that reflects how quickly the technology has spread through research workflows. Its latest collection examines applications ranging from image reconstructi
Key Takeaways: Gimlet Labs has secured $300 million in its latest funding round, giving the Andreessen-backed AI infrastructure business substantial capital to develop technology that distributes AI tasks across different chips. Value Add VC reported that the financing valued Gimlet Labs at $3 billion, reflecting