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Warm welcome to Basil Chatha, our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D! Two years ago, we spoke with Erik

Nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research on Thursday said they conducted a pilot review of an internal monitoring system at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company's latest effort to determine how it will deepen its work with third-party safety organizations. METR and R

Nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research on Thursday said they conducted a pilot review of an internal monitoring system at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company's latest effort to determine how it will deepen its work with third-party safety organizations. METR and R

Elon Musk has invested approximately $1 billion in the newly formed media company Skydance, according to a new report from Semafor. News of the investment comes a few weeks after Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to create the combined com

MBZUAI Opens RL360, the Agent Training Engine Behind K2 Horizon IFM open-sources the agentic reinforcement learning stack behind K2 Horizon, running 8,192 concurrent sandboxes and 1.3M rollouts across seven days. - IFM open-sourced RL360, the RL infrastructure behind K2 Horizon's

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Jewellery retailer BlueStone reported a 45% year-on-year growth in revenue from operations in the second quarter of financial year ending March 2027. At the same time, the company narrowed losses by 92% to Rs 4.37 crore during the quarter. Bluestone’s revenue from operations rose

The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. Someone hacked the Switch

The pressure has been particularly strong in companies seen as major beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure boom, with investors increasingly questioning whether aggressive data centre expansion can be supported by rising debt. CoreWeave, Nebius face heavy short bets Short intere

Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found - Published Organisations and businesses are still scrambling to update their systems after cyber-security flaws were revealed in a widely-used programming language, PHP. Websites around the world were take

Apple Inc. has emerged as one of the most reliable trades in the stock market as sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI) swings wildly. While AI stocks face volatility amid concerns over rising infrastructure spending, the iPhone maker’s shares have continued to climb, mak

Bengaluru-based cybersecurity company eMudhra, which recently found itself at the centre of a security key issue, has announced plans to voluntarily wind down its global secure sockets layer and transport layer security (SSL/TLS) certificate business. In a filing, the company sai

Meta must pay $25 billion to New Mexico after a jury found the tech giant guilty of nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws. The largest fine to ever hit Meta came after New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez declined to join an $18 billion settlement Meta

Liquid AI's RIPL Engine Beats vLLM by 28x on Real-Time Inference Liquid AI's new RIPL inference engine runs small Liquid Foundation Models in under 50ms end-to-end, targeting search, ads, fraud, and payments. - Liquid AI launched RIPL, a sub-50ms inference engine for LFM2.5 model

A federal judge in Miami on Thursday ordered that President Donald Trump sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11, according to multiple news outlets. U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, at a court hearing Thursday, also warned Trump

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Over two months after attaining the IOCC (Indian-Owned and Controlled Company) tag, Swiggy announced that it will shortly commence transitioning its quick commerce business, Instamart, to an inventory-led model. In its Q2 shareholders letter, the company announced that it will pi

Ackman was speaking at the Sheba Medical Center's annual ARC summit in Tel Aviv. Ackman and his wife, Neri Oxman, in 2024 bought a 5% stake in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. He said he became very bullish on Israel after the October 7, 2023, attacks and had grown even more optimist

The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 7.32% from 7.40% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.19%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also eased this

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The bad week for cybersecurity just got worse for thousands more companies, who were spied on by Chinese hackers following the breach of IT management and remote access giant ConnectWise. Security researchers at Microsoft say the China state-aligned hackers broke into ConnectWise

The latest push into high-end travel is taking place on the high seas, as cruise lines increasingly lean on luxury offerings. On Regent's Seven Seas Splendor, an all-luxury ship, cabins cost anywhere from $1,800 to $15,000 per night for its top-of-the-line booking, the Regent Sui

Russell Brand accuser said alleged rape 'really hurt', court hears - Published - Warning - this report contains graphic content The friend of a woman claiming to have been raped by Russell Brand told a jury the complainant had told her after the alleged attack that it had "really

AMD and Intel announced that they will combine their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, the open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL), and have aligned on it as the default open-source library for x86 acceleration inside

Employers continue to hold onto workers even as hiring remains weak, sending weekly jobless claims to around their lowest levels in records that stretch back nearly six decades. Initial filings for unemployment insurance slipped to a seasonally adjusted 194,000 for the week ended

Government officials in Guinea-Bissau have formally rejected a clinical trial that would be run by Danish researchers and funded by the US to look for alleged nonspecific harms from the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine dose is currently recommended globally fo

Beyond Yoga CEO Nancy Green has an easy answer when asked why the brand didn’t go for a permanent location for its recently opened New York store. “Oh we will,” she said of the pop-up location, which debuted in September and will stay open through January. “It's a great way to ex

We’re excited to announce the fellows who will be part of the inaugural a16z Ops Engineering Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of leaders who are transforming their organizations with AI. We received thousands of applications from talented people around the world. Today, we’re thrille

Dive Brief: - David’s Bridal has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to separate out its AI platform Pearl into a stand-alone, publicly traded company. Pearl will combine with special purpose acquisition company K&F Growth Acquisition Corp II for the deal. - Pearl, which is a su

The Scoop Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing a much needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. The deal came together at roughly the same time as equity inve

The rising French star whose dad won Rugby World Cup with England - Published Accents quickly reveal a lot about a person. So speaking to Leeds-born Felix Balshaw - the 20-year-old son of England Rugby World Cup winner Iain - it soon becomes clear why he is representing France on

Government websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday as concerns spread about vulnerabilities in servers that host sites coded in PHP, the world's most popular server programming language. The U.S. National Security Agency warned millions of organizations to either imple

Fernandes to stay captain as Rooney calls Man Utd players babies - Published Bruno Fernandes will remain as Manchester United captain and will not be disciplined for his post-match criticism of Michael Carrick after the 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como. The United skipper crit

GPUs from stolen $470,000 Nvidia RTX 5090 shipment at Brazil airport appear for sale online, identified by serial numbers — three employees identified by police helped steal equipment The haul is thought to be worth nearly half a million dollars. Following reports over the weeken

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets — including 36 of the main character Prue alo

Dive Brief: - Walmart is betting more on agentic AI with the debut of “Agent Profiles” sometime in the next month, allowing customers to have dedicated profiles within their account for an AI agent, per a Wednesday announcement. - Shoppers could require approval for purchases mad

Dive Brief: - EBay has downsized its global workforce for the second time this year, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. - The marketplace is slashing its global staff by 9%, with cuts impacting all regions where it operates. - That affects more than 1,000 people and comes after

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea