Lightelligence’s 400% debut is a bet that AI’s next bottleneck is the optical interconnect
When a company with US$15.5 million in annual revenue debuts on a stock exchange and its market capitalisation briefly hits US$10 billion, the obvious question is: what do investors know that the financials don’t show yet? In Lightelligence’s case, the answer is optical interconnect and the growing conviction that conventional copper wiring between AI chips […]
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The billion-dollar startup with a different idea for AI
A billion dollars in startup funding for a company that employs 12 people is an indication that investors still have faith in AI. But the founder of the startup in question – AMI Labs’ Yann LeCun – believes that the breed of technology we currently term AI (large language models) is not the way through […]
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Microsoft open-source toolkit secures AI agents at runtime
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft focuses on runtime security to force strict governance onto enterprise AI agents. The release tackles a growing anxiety: autonomous language models are now executing code and hitting corporate networks way faster than traditional policy controls can keep up. AI integration used to mean conversational interfaces and advisory copilots. Those […]
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KiloClaw targets shadow AI with autonomous agent governance
With the launch of KiloClaw, enterprises now have a tool to enforce governance over autonomous agents and manage shadow AI. While businesses spent the last year securing large language models and formalising vendor agreements, developers and knowledge workers started moving on their own. Employees are bypassing official procurement, deploying autonomous agents on personal infrastructure to […]
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Mastercard keeps tabs on fraud with new foundation model
Mastercard has developed a large tabular model (an LTM as opposed to an LLM) that’s trained on transaction data rather than text or images to help it address security and authenticity issues in digital payments. The company has trained a foundation model on billions of card transactions, with the intention of expanding to hundreds of […]
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Ai2: Building physical AI with virtual simulation data
Virtual simulation data is driving the development of physical AI across corporate environments, led by initiatives like Ai2’s MolmoBot. Instructing hardware to interact with the real world has historically relied on highly expensive and manually-collected demonstrations. Technology providers building generalist manipulation agents typically frame extensive real-world training as the basis for these systems. For some […]
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How physical AI integration accelerates vehicle innovation
The integration of physical AI into vehicles remains a primary objective for automakers looking to accelerate innovation. A technical collaboration between Qualcomm and Wayve offers a framework for how hardware and software providers can consolidate their efforts to supply production-ready advanced driver assistance systems to manufacturers worldwide. The partnership combines Wayve’s AI driving layer with […]
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AI agents prefer Bitcoin shaping new finance architecture
AI agents prefer Bitcoin for digital wealth storage, forcing finance chiefs to adapt their architecture for machine autonomy. When AI systems gain economic autonomy, their internal logic dictates how corporate capital flows. Non-partisan research by the Bitcoin Policy Institute evaluated how these frontier models would transact if operating as independent economic actors. The study tested […]
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ASML’s high-NA EUV tools clear the runway for next-gen AI chips
The machine that will make tomorrow’s AI chips possible has just been declared ready for mass production–and the clock for the industry’s next leap has officially started. ASML, the Dutch company that holds a global monopoly on commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment, confirmed this week that its High-NA EUV tools have crossed the threshold from […]
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Anthropic: Claude faces ‘industrial-scale’ AI model distillation
Anthropic has detailed three “industrial-scale” AI model distillation campaigns by overseas labs designed to extract abilities from Claude. These competitors generated over 16 million exchanges using approximately 24,000 deceptive accounts. Their goal was to acquire proprietary logic to improve their competing platforms. The extraction technique, known as distillation, involves training a weaker system on the […]
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