While much of the streaming industry is focused on mergers and acquisitions, NBCUniversal is expanding its reach through partnerships, and its latest move brings Peacock directly to YouTube. On Monday, NBCUniversal and YouTube announced a multi-year global strategic partnership, bringing Peacock’s Premium plan to YouTube Premium subscribers in the US in early 2027. This gives
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded Monday afternoon to murmurs in the industry that his company somehow supports the U.S. government’s efforts to ban Chinese open-weight models, or possibly open-weight models in general. “Anyone who has read my previous writings should know that I do not consider such bans to be a useful measure,
For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is an expensive endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a head start thanks to a grant from the Department of Energy. The fusion energy startup told TechCrunch on Monday that it received a $20 million grant from ARPA-E to help manufacture its modular high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. HTS magnets are expensive but
On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to companies using AI, and this time he went a step further. Companies that rely entirely on proprietary AI labs for their AI needs ultimately won’t survive, he predicts. That’s what he said on CNN. Fareed Zakaria GPS.
Microsoft on Monday launched its first specialized cybersecurity model along with a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, dealing a big blow to the major players in the space, namely Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model created “to find challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” The
Last week, an unreleased model created by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model, chaining exploits to gain access it should never have had. But while the
