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How Ricursive Intelligence Raised $335M at a $4B Valuation in 4 Months

The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders. They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them.

Microsoft's Superconductors: The Answer to AI Power Demand?

Microsoft is investigating high-temperature superconductor (HTS) technology to understand how its data centres can support rising power requirements

What Lionsgate's New Chief AI Officer Means for Filmmaking

Lionsgate, the film and TV studio behind big film franchises like The Hunger Games and John Wick, has appointed its first executive role dedicated to AI

After all the hype, some AI experts don't think OpenClaw is all that exciting

"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.

Fractal Analytics' muted IPO debut signals persistent AI fears in India

As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks.

All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

AI as Fast as Your Train of Thought

Plus: The only guide you need for compound engineering

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

Longtime NPR host David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him.

NPR's David Greene is suing Google over its AI podcast voice.

The former host of Morning Edition and current host of Left, Right & Center claims that Google illegally replicated his voice for its male podcast host in NotebookLM. Google denies this, but Greene (and many of his friends and colleagues) say the resemblance is “uncanny.” As the Washington Post reports: