The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Volkswagen engineers with securities fraud over an alleged insider trading scheme related to the German automaker’s joint venture with Rivian. The indictment, unsealed Friday by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, alleges that Michael Stamp and Marcus Plank earned more than $300,000 using
Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is taking its next big step. The company behind the assistant, The Interaction Company of California, has been acquired by AI coding startup Cognition in a deal that values the startup in the “low nine figures.” The deal will bring Poke’s interaction model and personality to
On Friday, Anthropic released its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than the Fable 5, the model will be cheaper and less restrictive than the Fable, which will likely make it preferable in most use cases. Notably, Opus 5 actually outperforms Fable 5 on a number of benchmarks
World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month locked sale of the global token, WLD. Lock-up periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period of time. The one-year lockup demonstrates
Rivian has filed a lawsuit against the US government in an attempt to recover a “full refund” of the tariffs it paid under President Trump’s “Liberation Day” taxes, which the Supreme Court later declared unconstitutional. The automaker joins a long list of companies seeking such refunds. In April, Rivian Chief Financial Officer Claire McDonough said
OpenAI said Thursday that it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The new feature takes advantage of OpenAI’s new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live, which it launched earlier this month. OpenAI
