OpenAI agents hit two platforms before Agents API goes public
Sen. Josh Hawley has demanded records from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the company's agent testing practices, adding political pressure to a disclosure timeline that already spans two compromised platforms and a newly public developer API .…
Anthropic safety crisis deepens as CEO Amodei, rival lab heads call for coordinated slowdown
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday calling for the AI industry to slow the pace of frontier development, days after pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon's public resignation triggered the most sustained internal-safety…
Z.ai raises $5B in second major capital call in two months
Z.ai, the Hong Kong-listed Chinese AI model developer also known as Zhipu AI, is raising approximately $5 billion through a combined share placement and convertible bond sale, directing the capital toward next-generation foundation models a…
Google Completes $1.5B-Plus Talent Deal, Absorbs Mechanize Team Into DeepMind
Google has finalized a talent acquisition deal with AI coding startup Mechanize, bringing more than 12 key personnel, including co-founder Tamay Besiroglu, into Google DeepMind . The transaction is reported to be worth more than $1.5 billio…