Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta’s new AI lab.
Amid increased momentum for defense, the NATO Innovation Fund refreshes its investment team
The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is entering a new chapter, marked by the arrival of two new partners and the departure of its penultimate founding team partner.
How a Y Combinator food-delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store
BiteSight is a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try out.
VC Victor Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to launch his own firm
Lazarte has only been at Benchmark for two years. He backed startups like Mercor, HeyGen, and Decart AI.
Intel continues to pull back on its manufacturing projects
Intel canceled multiple manufacturing projects in Europe and delayed its Ohio chip plant for the second time this year.
X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform’s best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.
A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced…
Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models
When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these…
Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership
The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra…
A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash
iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left.