Yann LeCun’s Paris-based AI world model startup raises more than $1BN

Yann LeCun’s much-anticipated new startup, which is developing alternative AI models to large language models (LLMs), has raised more than $1bn in Europe’s largest-ever seed funding round, it has conf…

X finally lets you block Grok AI from modifying your photos, but the fix falls short

X’s new Grok edit blocker promises more control over your photos, but the feature only prevents AI edits triggered by tagging @Grok in replies.
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Anthropic sues Pentagon over ‘supply chain risk’ designation, citing free speech and due process violations — company refused to allow its AI to be used for autonomous attacks, mass surveillance

Anthropic has filed two federal lawsuits against the Pentagon and other U.S. federal agencies, seeking to overturn the Department of War’s decision to designate the AI company a “supply chain risk.”

The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI

The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise age…

How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “Anyone wanna host a get together in SF and pull this up on a 100 inch TV?”  The author of that post on X was referring to an online intelligence dashboard following…

Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant can be easily jailbroken and tricked into answering other questions — specific prompts break the chatbot’s guidelines and reach underlying AI engine

Rufus, the AI assistant meant to make shopping on Amazon easier, can actually just answer any question you throw at it as long as it’s prompted right. It allegedly runs Claude under the hood, and people have been able to g…

Police find ChatGPT link in rising reports of harmful satanic rituals

UK experts say ChatGPT is fuelling a sustained rise in organised ritual abuse disclosures, with survivors using the tool as a gateway to support, prompting formal police training across forces.
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Nvidia-backed Nscale raises $2BN, appoints Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg to board

Nscale, the Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure startup, has raised $2bn in a Series C funding round, valuing it at $14.6bn, and appointed Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board. The round, which N…

How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility
How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility

If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industry s…

How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility
How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility

If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industry s…