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AI Startups Dominate Global Venture Funding In 2025
Venture capital hit $97 billion last quarter, with nearly half pouring into AI companies as Wall Street set new records.
AI drives 38% surge in global venture capital funding as third quarter hits $97B
AI drives 38% surge in global venture capital funding as third quarter hits $97B – SiliconANGLE
AI venture funding continued to surge in third quarter, data shows
As the rush towards AI-related companies continues on Wall Street, data from Crunchbase showed on Monday that the sector enjoyed a bulk of venture funding in the third quarter, with...
OpenAI looks to take 10% stake in AMD through AI chip deal worth billions
OpenAI will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years, beginning with a 1-gigawatt rollout in 2026.
Generative artificial intelligence in medicine
Nature Medicine – This Review summarizes recent technical advancements in generative AI, outlines how new models might improve healthcare and discusses validation approaches—using lessons…
SEN SANDERS: AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invest billions in AI and robotics that could eliminate millions of jobs while increasing corporate profits at workers’ expense.
AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene-editing therapies
Pharmaceutical company is latest to invest in artificial intelligence to speed drug development
AI startup funding hits record $192.7b in 2025: report
Major funding rounds went to established names like Anthropic and xAI, while smaller and non-AI startups struggled to attract capital.
White House AI Task Force Positions AI as Top Education Priority
In the first meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education, officials and ed-tech leaders emphasized AI literacy, workforce training and public-private partnerships as central to U.S. competitiveness.
Why Microsoft and OpenAI Announced a Tentative Deal
As we wrap up what has been a busy week in artificial intelligence-cloud land—one dominated by Oracle—we want to circle back to the striking announcement on Thursday night from Microsoft...
Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise
The $300B deal is a reminder that despite Oracle’s legacy status, it shouldn’t be overlooked when it comes to AI infrastructure. But key questions around power and how OpenAI will...
Strengthening our safeguards through collaboration with US CAISI and UK AISI
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Albania appoints AI bot ‘minister’ to fight corruption in world first
Sceptics wonder whether ‘Diella’, depicted as a woman in traditional folk costume, will herself be ‘corrupted’.
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Busy Week For Big Financings, Led By Databricks And PsiQuantum
This past week was a busy period for mega-sized funding rounds, with all 10 of the largest U.S. financings exceeding the $100 million mark. Topping the list were billion-dollar financings...
Albania appoints first AI minister to oversee public procurement
The bot will award all public tenders involving the government’s hiring of private companies, a role historically vulnerable to bribery and threats.
Meet Europe’s first exascale supercomputer — can it compete in the global AI race?
Nature – JUPITER, the European Union’s new exascale supercomputer, is 100% powered by renewable energy. What will researchers use it for?
OpenAI signs $300B cloud deal with Oracle for AI expansion
The deal forms part of Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative announced earlier this year by OpenAI, Oracle, and Japan’s SoftBank.
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the...
FTC Investigates Chatbot Security As Altman Talks Limiting ChatGPT Access
Amid reports of AIs discussing suicide methods with minors, OpenAI’s CEO says the company has considered ‘taking away some freedom’ on ChatGPT for those ‘in fragile mental places.’
Volvo to Invest $1.1B on AI in Next Five Years
The automaker currently has 1,200 AI applications in use with several hundred more in development
Albania appoints world’s first AI government ‘minister’ to root out co
The digital assistant, called Diella, is pictured as a woman dressed in traditional Albanian garb.
U.S. Elections Readiness
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
The case for targeted regulation
Increasingly powerful AI systems have the potential to accelerate scientific progress, unlock new medical treatments, and grow the economy. But along with the remarkable new capabilities of these AIs come...
Microsoft Wants to Be ‘Self-Sufficient’ In AI, Plans to Expand Computing Power
After releasing its first in-house AI models last month, the brand has told employees it will be making “significant investments” to power future tech.
A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom’s desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement...
How Agility Robotics factory in Salem is building the robot revolution with Digit
Agility Robotics opened the world’s first full-scale factory for commercially used humanoid robots in 2024.
Safety of AI chatbots for children and teens faces US inquiry
The Federal Trade Commission is probing seven tech companies including Snap, Meta, OpenAI and XAI.
Microsoft’s new AI framework trains powerful reasoning models with a fraction of the cost
The rStar2-Agent framework boosts a 14B model to outperform a 671B giant, offering a path to state-of-the-art AI without massive costs.
Malaysia reins in data centre growth, complicating China’s AI chip access
Malaysia, a hotspot for data centres, is reining in the pace of expansion in a move industry insiders and analysts expect will hinder China’s efforts to gain access to powerful...
Nvidia and OpenAI to back major UK investment in artificial intelligence
Jensen Huang and Sam Altman will join US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain next week
AgentGym-RL: Training LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making…
Developing autonomous LLM agents capable of making a series of intelligent decisions to solve complex, real-world tasks is a fast-evolving frontier. Like human cognitive development, agents are…
15 Venture Funds Selected as Korea Commits US$430M to AI & Deep-Tech Unicorns – KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea selects 15 fund managers to deploy ₩600B (US$430M) into AI & deep-tech startups, with Coupang joining to back the next wave of unicorns.
National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed
By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.
Anthropic, Replit, And Higgsfield AI Raise Over $13 Billion, XR’s Virtue, Mojo Vision, Raise $175 Million
A busy week for AI/XR finance stories, Apple’s new AirPod 3 does real time translation, Meta to unveil new AR glasses next week, Open AI makes a movie, Amazon’s new...
New DeepMind study reveals a hidden bottleneck in vector search that breaks advanced RAG systems
Your AI might look smart on benchmarks but could be brittle in the real world, leading to unexpected failures and eroding user trust.
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats
Anthropic is launching incognito chats, too.
OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
The deal with Microsoft resolves a major hurdle in OpenAI’s planned corporate restructuring.
Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement
Edi Rama, PM, says digital assistant Diella will make Albania ‘a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption’
Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX GPU with 128GB memory for enterprise AI workloads
Rubin CPX delivers 30 petaFLOPs of compute