Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s Kimi open model went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the US AI industry reacted. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach in Hugging Face, a
An apparent effort by the Indian government to remove GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-powered offline messaging app, has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a
For 19-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, there is no middle ground. Either build a company as valuable as Google, he says, or fail and end up on the street. He started coding at age 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find
Defense technology company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may increase its valuation to between $40 billion and about $100 billion, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. The company, which raised $5 billion in May at a valuation of $61 billion (roughly double the $30.5 billion valuation it garnered in
The US Department of Justice is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing US border authorities with a password that deleted the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is believed to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for allegedly destroying data
