Artificial Intelligence

Six months.

Periodic Labs, the AI science startup founded by two former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers, is in discussions to raise at a valuation of about $7 billion \u2014 roughly five times the $1.3 billion valuation investors assigned the company just six months ago, according to people familiar with the...

Reflection AI is trying to raise $2.5 billion at a $25 billion valuation.

OpenAI killed Sora on Tuesday.

PyPI pulled two malicious versions of LiteLLM from its registry on March 24, 2026, but not before approximately 46,996 developers downloaded them during a 46-minute window — creating what security researchers are calling one of the most structurally dangerous supply chain incidents in the AI tool...

When OpenAI shared a financial document with investors last month, the company that has backed it to the tune of $13 billion got a headline section all to itself.

OpenAI formalized something this week that security researchers have been doing informally for two years: treating AI-specific vulnerabilities as a legitimate, fundable discipline.

Indie artists filed a 118-page lawsuit against Google on March 6, alleging the company trained its Lyria 3 music generation model on 44 million copyrighted clips and 280,000 hours of music pulled from YouTube — without permission, without compensation, and with full knowledge of the legal exposure.

When Senator Elissa Slotkin introduced the AI Guardrails Act last week, she described it as the most basic question in AI policy: who gets to decide when a machine takes a human life, and whether the government can use artificial intelligence to surveil Americans on its own soil.

Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled what it called the most powerful RISC-V processor ever made — and one independent analyst immediately did the math and reached a very different conclusion. The Chinese tech giant revealed the XuanTie C950, a 5-nanometer server chip built on the open-source RISC-V arch...

LeWorldModel solves the problem that has kept JEPA methods from scaling — and you can train it on a GPU in an afternoon. A team from Mila, NYU, Samsung, and Brown published arXiv 2603.19312v1 on March 13, 2026, introducing LeWorldModel (LeWM), the first JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architect...