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A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleged persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified. “Over the last several months, unauthorized labs have developed increasingly sophisticated methods to circumvent our defenses and harvest the capabilities of US
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Demand for OpenAI’s newest and most powerful model, Astra, has led the company to temporarily pause subscriptions for its $200-per-month Pro plan, citing strain on its infrastructure. The move was announced on X by OpenAI’s product leader, Thibault (Tibo) Sottiaux, who leads core products like Codex and ChatGPT
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Pet peeves often decide whether we buy something or not. Think about clothes or shoes. That’s never been truer than when it comes to foldable phones and “the crease.” With Apple finally entering the category with the iPhone Duo, we finally get to see the phone giant’s effort
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I’ve worn an Oura ring on my pointer finger for nearly two years, checking the app every day to see my readiness, sleep and activity scores along with my cardiovascular age and other health metrics it tracks. So when I heard Apple announce a readiness score and other similar
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This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Enterprises are navigating rising AI costs while avoiding vendor lock-in as an increasingly complex infrastructure layer presents additional challenges. Vendors are starting to recognize the struggle enterprises face with managing AI infrastructure. Last week Broadcom introduced VMware Private
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U.S. venture capitalists once insisted that international startups move stateside before they would write a check. The three 28-year-old founders behind Furo are convinced that their decision to leave Silicon Valley and move back to their home country of Germany has paid off in both VC dollars and business
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WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework for autonomous vehicles. Reuters also reported the permit. AVOMO is the
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Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the company announced on Thursday. Because of the financing, Motive has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement for an initial public offering. The San Francisco company describes itself as “the AI platform
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TAR has raised a $120m Series A led by Spark Capital at a $1bn post-money valuation. The Austin company builds off-grid power systems for AI data centres. The company announced the round on Thursday. Prior investors Buckley Ventures and Align Fund also took part, Bloomberg reported. Spark Capital is an
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AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments, or sandboxes, for AI agents. Baseten co-founder and chief technology officer Amir Haghighat told Axios Pro about the deal, which the outlet reported first on Thursday. Baseten later announced the acquisition. Axios describes Blaxel as a
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forever Physical: In a world where gaming giants are actively trying to kill optical discs and other physical media, GOG is doing its own thing. The retro gaming store is expanding its dedicated preservation
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The company is suggesting that its work with traditional fact checkers could come to an end. Meta Meta is beginning its international expansion of Community Notes. The company said it is starting to test the crowd-sourced fact checks in 16 countries in Latin America more than a year after it
