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Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers
AI infrastructure startup Infinity has raised $15 million at a $100 million valuation, with backing from Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company is developing software designed to let AI chips run models more efficiently, aiming to break Nvidia’s grip on the market, which stems largely from its proprietary CUDA…
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Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future
In this Decoder podcast interview, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel speaks with Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Dr Jill Lepore about her forthcoming book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, out on 25 August. Lepore argues that society’s drive to measure and quantify everything, from data collection to AI-driven systems, is fundamentally dehumanising,…
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Utopai Studios Producing AI-Assisted Animated Movie ‘The Most Serious Fart’ by ‘Not Another Teen Movie’ Writer (EXCLUSIVE)
AI production company Utopai Studios is making an animated feature film based on “The Most Serious Fart,” a 2023 children’s book by “Not Another Teen Movie” screenwriter Mike Bender, illustrated by Chuck Dillon. Bender will write and direct the project, marking a notable case of a studio built primarily around AI-generated content taking on an…
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Fan of TV serial killer ‘Dexter’ killed cellmate while awaiting trial for murdering TWO others, jurors told
A man described as a fan of the fictional television serial killer “Dexter” has been accused of killing a fellow inmate while he was being held in custody awaiting trial for two earlier murders. Jurors heard details of the alleged killing as part of proceedings examining the defendant’s history of violence, with prosecutors linking his…
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One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s leather jackets has fetched an auction price of $960,000: ‘It has become a symbol for the vision at the forefront of the AI revolution’
A leather jacket belonging to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sold at auction for $960,000, reflecting the immense hype and cultural cachet now surrounding the AI hardware giant and its leader. The garment, long a personal trademark of Huang’s, has become something of a symbol for Nvidia’s dominance in the chip industry and its central…
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EU’s AI labeling rules take effect next month
From 2 August, providers of AI systems operating in the EU will be required to disclose when users are interacting with a machine, and to add machine-readable marks to AI-generated or manipulated content, under new transparency rules issued by the European Commission. The measures form part of the bloc’s landmark AI Act, aimed at making…
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Indonesia’s copyright rewrite would ban AI from imitating creators – and Google’s not a fan.
Indonesia is drafting a rewrite of its copyright law that would make it the first Southeast Asian country to explicitly address artificial intelligence in statute. The bill would ban AI from imitating a creator’s “distinctive style”, require disclosure of AI-generated content, and subject the use of copyrighted works for AI training to fair-use limits or…
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Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
The Register’s podcast “The Kettle” devoted its latest episode to the environmental toll of the AI datacentre boom, prompted by host Brandon Vigliarolo experiencing hazardous wildfire smoke over the Great Lakes region, with air quality readings nearing double the top of the standard index. The episode connects worsening wildfires, which experts link to climate change,…
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Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Ars Technica examined how AI coding assistants differ not just in their underlying models but in the “harness” software that governs what those models can see and do within a codebase. Anthropic’s Claude Code deliberately keeps this harness lean, avoiding pre-built structured context systems, on the reasoning that models are improving so rapidly that heavy,…
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China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
Chinese AI firms Moonshot and Alibaba have unveiled powerful new models that they claim rival the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, intensifying competition with Silicon Valley just as AI becomes central to national security and economic power. Moonshot released Kimi K3 on Friday, claiming it outperforms nearly every US system bar OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s…