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Standard Intelligence raises $75M to develop efficient computer use models

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by ...
VentureBeat

Perplexity takes its ‘Computer’ AI agent into the enterprise, taking aim at Microsoft and Salesforce

Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to ...
The Economist

AI models are being used to predict conflict

A S AN UNEASY truce holds between America and Iran, experts are struggling to predict what new phase the conflict may enter next. Might an artificial-intelligence model know any b ...
Geeky Gadgets

Perplexity Computer Orchestrates 19 AI Models, but Faces Platform Risk

Perplexity Computer has garnered attention for its ability to orchestrate 19 distinct AI models into a unified system, offering features like task decomposition, sub-agent spawning and persistent ...
The Conversation

White House wants to vet powerful AI models for risks − a computer scientist explains why AI safety is so difficult

The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government review the safety of powerful artificial intelligence models before approving their release, according ...
Business Wire

Synchron Raises $200 Million Series D to Advance Brain-Computer Interface Technology

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synchron, a leader in non-surgical brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced today it has raised a $200 million Series D financing round. The funding will ...
techtimes

Brain Computer Interface Technology Could Change the Way People Use Keyboards and Screens Forever

Explore how brain computer interface technology and advanced brain-computer interfaces are transforming digital interaction, potentially replacing traditional keyboards and screens with ...
The Atlantic

The Human Skill That Eludes AI

In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative.
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AI models can hack computers and self-replicate onto new machines, new research finds

Artificial intelligence models can break into computers, copy themselves, and use the new copies to keep attacking other machines, according to new research said to be the first known demonstration ...
Computer Weekly

UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models

As global artificial intelligence (AI) development becomes increasingly concentrated among a handful of large technology players, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is pursuing a different path. Rather ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models. The company claims ...