Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners
The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners

Artificial Intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle. Not a collapse. A correction. For the past two years, AI has dominated venture capital flows, with capital pouring into the sector at unprecedented scale and startups multiplying rap…

Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders
Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders

The AI video company is adding moderation infrastructure built for AI-generated content, doubling down on a screen-at-creation model it has run since 2017. Synthesia decides whether a video is allowed before it exists. The London AI video company, whic…

Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School

A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”

Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.

Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum
Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum

The marketed range was $53 to $55. Quantinuum priced at $60. That gap, the willingness of investors to pay above what the bankers asked, is the real news in the Honeywell-backed company’s initial public offering, which raised $1.68bn and set a valuatio…

Skydweller Solar Aircraft Project Lives On After Loss Of Prototype

Skydweller CEO Robert Miller describes exactly how the aircraft was lost—and why the future prospects for perpetual solar drones still look good.

SoftBank’s PayPay pushes into insurance with a 70.2% T&D Life stake
SoftBank’s PayPay pushes into insurance with a 70.2% T&D Life stake

The SoftBank-backed payments app is taking a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life, its most capital-intensive move yet from payments into full financial services. PayPay is buying its way into life insurance. The SoftBank-backed payments company has a…

KPMG puts Claude in front of all 276,000 staff in an Anthropic alliance
KPMG puts Claude in front of all 276,000 staff in an Anthropic alliance

The Big Four firm is embedding Claude in the platform its people and clients actually work in, starting with tax and legal, and is named Anthropic’s preferred partner for private equity. The number that defines the deal is 276,000. That is how many KPM…

Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA
Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA

The strategy is defined by a single exclusion. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Wednesday, Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman said the AI chipmaker is working with every major hardware maker in the industry apart from one: NVIDIA. The …