Tag: #Startups

Florida sues OpenAI’s Sam Altman in first lawsuit over violent incident

OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman were sued by Florida’s attorney general on Monday in the first state lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged links to numerous violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of turning a blind eye to safety concerns in favor of “winning the AI ​​arms race and making millions.” “Today, we announced the nation’s […]

Hackers took over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into allowing access

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed multiple users’ accounts to be hacked. The attack appears to rely on tricking Meta’s proprietary AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to victims’ accounts. Over the weekend, multiple users on Reddit claimed their Instagram accounts had been compromised, and many users on X warned of similar account […]

Access to water is a risk factor for SpaceX’s IPO

SpaceX has added new language to its IPO filing warning prospective investors about the company’s access to water, a potentially scarce resource. The company, which includes Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, wrote in a revised filing Monday that access to the water needed to cool data centers is just as important as SpaceX’s ability to […]

Former Meta CTO raises $250 million climate change fund as most zig-zig

Gigascale, a venture firm led by former Meta CTO Mike Schropfer, announced Monday that it has raised $250 million in funding to help founders “reimagine the physical economy.” The new fund will focus on energy, grid infrastructure and critical minerals from a climate technology perspective. By remaining openly focused on climate change, Gigascale is countering […]

Human files are published

Anthropic, the AI ​​lab behind Claude, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, the company said in a blog post on Monday. The company, which has a market capitalization of nearly $1 trillion, has filed a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering. Anthropic has […]

This AI weather startup is outperforming government forecasts

A new AI weather forecasting tool released today by startup WindBorne Systems provides more frequent and accurate predictions for key variables than the world-leading system developed by European governments, thanks to advances in the way sensor readings are fed into deep learning models. Founded in 2019 by a group of Stanford University students, WindBorne started […]

DuckDuckGo eases access to ‘AI-free’ search engine as traffic soars

As traffic continues to grow, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI sentiment with the release of a new browser extension that allows users to set noai.duckduckgo.com, an AI-free search experience, as their default search engine. Once enabled, users will be directed to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search page, with no AI-assisted answers or chat prompts, […]

Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO

AI companies have become data-hungry businesses as they require increasingly large datasets to train their models. To meet that need, many AI startups are actively collecting data, ignoring long-standing internet conventions such as respecting robots.txt files, which signal to automated crawlers which parts of a website are off-limits. This requires websites to restrict access to […]