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New SaaStr AI LIVE with Jason Lemkin: VC Funding in the AI Era: What’s Actually Getting Funded in 2025 and Why Your B2B Startup Might Be Left Behind
The VC fundraising landscape has completely transformed in the last 18 months, and most founders still don’t realize just how dramatically the rules have changed. After analyzing 1,000 VC pit…
AI Sam Altman and the Sora copyright gamble: ‘I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us’
CNBC has seen videos of characters from shows like “SpongeBob SquarePants” on the platform and was able to independently generate other characters.
AI more likely than humans to comply with dishonest requests
Guardrails put in place didn’t entirely stop AI behaving unethically
AI voices are now indistinguishable from real human voices
Do you think you’d be able to tell the difference between a real human voice and a deepfake? Most people can’t.
Despite AI-related job loss fears, tech hiring holds steady – and here are the most in-demand skills
Two recent surveys, from ManpowerGroup and UpWork, show optimism for tech-related hiring for both jobs and gigs, now and into the remainder of the quarter.
OpenAI to boost content owners’ control for Sora AI video app, plans monetization
ChatGPT creator OpenAI will soon introduce controls allowing the owners of content rights to dictate how their characters are used in its AI video-generating tool Sora and plans to share...
Unlock global AI inference scalability using new global cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5
Organizations are increasingly integrating generative AI capabilities into their applications to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive innovation. As generative AI workloads continue to grow in scale and importance,...
Circular Financing: Does Nvidia’s $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
Nvidia’s $110B vendor financing strategy mirrors Lucent’s telecom bubble playbook. Analyzing customer concentration, GPU-backed debt, depreciation schedules & cash flow patterns to assess AI bubble risks.
LinkedIn offers advice for ‘future-proofing’ your career amid powerful changes from AI
LinkedIn released a report focused on “future-proofing your career” as artificial intelligence reshapes a wide range of jobs.
TOUCAN: Synthesizing 1.5M Tool-Agentic Data from Real-World MCP…
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are rapidly emerging as powerful systems for automating tasks across domains. Yet progress in the open-source community is constrained by the lack of high quality…
Why Some Companies Adopting AI May Be Running Before They Can Walk
If you’re rolling out AI to your workers, and expecting them to use it, training them first is critical.
AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria
Researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.
‘Red Flag’: Analysts Sound Major Alarms As AI Bubble Now ‘Bigger’ Than Subprime
Analysts warn of AI bubble 17x larger than dot-com bubble. Could trigger global recession. Experts express concern over AI industry’s financial risks.
Do AI-designed proteins create a biosecurity vulnerability?
Ordering DNA for AI-designed toxins doesn’t always raise red flags.
Cactus: High-Performance AI Inference on Any Smartphone
A Blog post by Roman Shemet on Hugging Face
AI-Driven Multi-Modal Flexible Robots with Self-Learning
In a groundbreaking leap for robotics and artificial intelligence, researchers have unveiled a revolutionary class of multi-modal flexible electronic robots imbued with programmable sensing, actuating, and self-learning capabilities. This pioneering...
AWS showcases generative AI for real-time military logistics
AWS demos a generative AI tool that gives battle commanders instant logistics insights using geospatial and telemetry data.
OpenAI’s Sora soars to No. 1 on the US App Store
Sora becomes the No. 3 US app after 164K downloads in 2 days, making the AI video app an early hit.
When Cybercriminals Weaponize AI at Scale
Organizations need AI-native security operations that match the scale, speed, and intelligence of modern AI attacks.
Hopper’s AI agent can book flights and cancel trips without human help
Hopper launches a powerful AI travel agent that can book flights, cancel trips, process refunds, and handle customer service without human intervention.
Perplexity bets on free AI browser, tests compute power limits
The autonomous, agentic features of the browser are also coming to mobile in the form of an app.
Microsoft retires AutoGen and debuts Agent Framework to unify and govern enterprise AI agents
Microsoft will stop updating AutoGen and will consolidate agent frameworks into its new Microsoft Agent Framework platform.
Salesforce launches AI ‘trust layer’ to tackle enterprise deployment failures plaguing 80% of projects
Salesforce expands AI platform with new data governance tools as 80% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver value, targeting $7 billion market opportunity.
Google’s Jules coding agent moves beyond chat with new command line and API
With the update to its coding agent Jules, bringing it to the command line and offering an API, Google hopes to make its agents deeply integrated into workflows.
Discovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic
Nature Microbiology – Enterololin is a narrow-spectrum antibiotic that selectively kills Enterobacteriaceae in vitro and in a mouse model of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli gut infection….
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: Comet browser is meant to be ‘a true personal assistant’
Perplexity founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the launch of the AI browser Comet, future of AI personal assistants, state of the AI tech race, and...
AI’s next big leap: Standardizing connections with MCP
Think of MCP as AI’s USB-C — finally connecting all your business systems so AI can do real work, not just cool demos.
Michael Kleinman reacts to breakthrough AI safety legislation – Future of Life Institute
FLI celebrates a landmark moment for the AI safety movement and highlights its growing momentum
Nvidia and Fujitsu agree to work together on AI robots and other technology
U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations...
Microsoft aims to swap AMD, Nvidia GPUs for its own AI chips
: Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator
The AI Backlash Is Here
Welcome to the slop era.
Discovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic
Nature Microbiology – Enterololin is a narrow-spectrum antibiotic that selectively kills Enterobacteriaceae in vitro and in a mouse model of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli gut infection….
A generative artificial intelligence approach for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides against multidrug-resistant bacteria
Nature Microbiology – This study presents a generative artificial intelligence approach for the high-throughput discovery of antimicrobials against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Trump’s ‘Armed Conflict’ Against Cartels, and the Rise of Hyperrealistic A.I. Videos
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
AI has designed thousands of potential antibiotics. Will any work?
Nature – Machine learning can speed up the discovery of potential antibiotics but challenges remain.
AI has designed thousands of potential antibiotics. Will any work?
Nature – Machine learning can speed up the discovery of potential antibiotics but challenges remain.
How a wonky Commerce rule could disrupt AI companies
The compliance challenges for businesses could be significant.
U.S. AI standards institute sounds alarm over DeepSeek
A new U.S. government report warns that China’s DeepSeek models pose risks to national security.
AI dominates venture capital investing in 2025, pulling in US$192.7 billion
That puts 2025 on track to be the first year where more than half of total VC dollars go into the AI industry, according to PitchBook data.
AI dominates venture capital investing in 2025, pulling in US$192.7 billion
That puts 2025 on track to be the first year where more than half of total VC dollars go into the AI industry, according to PitchBook data.