Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched its first in-house AI model Wednesday morning, called Inkling. And unlike flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, it is open weight, meaning third-party developers and companies can download and modify it directly. Inkling is a mixed expert system with 975
Microsoft appears to be preparing its sales team to be more competitive with the other major players in the artificial intelligence industry. In an internal meeting on Tuesday, company executives outlined a plan for vendors to negatively compare artificial intelligence products from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to their own, according to a new
While many top-tier venture firms continue to raise massively larger funds, Greylock Ventures, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most prestigious venture firms, is intentionally bucking the trend of increasing fund size. On Tuesday, the 61-year-old company announced it had raised an 18th fund of $1.5 billion. The figure is 50% higher than its previous
SpaceX shares fell to just over $135 on Wednesday, the price CEO Elon Musk and his company chose ahead of their blockbuster June 12 initial public offering (IPO) that raised nearly $86 billion. The company’s shares spent much of the day below the IPO price, at one point falling below $133 per share, before rising
On Tuesday, Microsoft fixed an all-time high number of security bugs across its product lines, largely due to using AI to help the company and outside researchers discover bugs. Among the vulnerabilities fixed was one for the remastered version of the classic 25-year-old war strategy video game Age of Empires II. According to security researchers,
Neko Health, the health assessment and body scanning startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and OG Venture Partners. This follows the company’s $260 million Series B raised in January 2025.
