Cursor acknowledges that the new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kim
AI coding company Cursor announced a new model this week called Composer 2, touting it as offering “state-of-the-art coding intelligence.” However, an X user posting under the name Fynn quickly claimed that Composer 2 was “just Kimi 2.5” with reinforcement learning added. Kimi 2.5 is an open source model recently released by Moonshot AI, a […]
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘false compliance’
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers” that it complies with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and significant fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that announced last year that it would raise $32 million […]
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense. Industry experts are watching Amazon’s Trainium chip, created at that facility, for its implications for lower-cost AI […]
Are AI tokens a new signing bonus or just a business cost?
This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley is back in the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is very simple. Companies don’t just give engineers salaries, stocks, and bonuses, they also give them budgets for AI tokens, the computational units that power tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. You spend […]
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘false compliance’
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers” that it complies with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and significant fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that announced last year that it would raise $32 million […]
Why Wall Street wasn’t attracted to NVIDIA’s big conference
After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at the annual GTC keynote on Monday, the $4 trillion company’s stock price began to fall. Wall Street investors seemed unfazed by the leather-jacketed founder’s two-and-a-half-hour bullish speech. Instead, they focused more on AI’s uncertain future and bubble concerns. The tension on Wall Street is not unlike […]
The mechanism of nuclear fusion power generation and startups pursuing it
For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity on Earth. And for just as long, achieving that goal seemed just a decade away. Now, a slew of startups are closer than ever, rushing to build fusion reactors that can power the grid. Fusion startups have attracted more than […]
A week after President Trump announced the end of the relationship, the Pentagon told Anthropic that the two sides were largely in agreement, a new court filing reveals.
Late Friday afternoon, Anthropic filed two affidavits in California federal court pushing back against the Pentagon’s claims that AI companies pose an “unacceptable risk to national security,” arguing that the government’s lawsuit is based on technical misunderstandings and claims that were not actually raised during the months of negotiations that preceded the dispute. These declarations […]
Elon Musk misled Twitter investors to avoid acquisition, jury says
A California civil jury on Friday ruled that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk tweeted that there were too many bots on Twitter, which was why he later tried to fight back against the acquisition. […]
Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
Microsoft on Friday announced a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, including dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant Copilot, among other things. The company announced that it will reduce Copilot AI integration in some apps, including Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. […]