Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday. The fresh funding will help the company develop horizontal wells in super-hot rocks capable of generating 15 megawatts of electricity per well. Mazama plans to start generating electricity sometime next year and said its first site in Oregon is
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track.
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the UK government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s new AI minister Kanishka Narayan, and even the head of the UK’s foreign intelligence service. (Paolo Benanti, who advises the pope on AI, was
Lucid Motors has entered into a partnership with European mobility platform Bolt that could bring robotaxis made by the California company to the continent. The two companies announced Thursday that Bolt “aims to deploy at least 25,000 fully autonomous vehicles” built on Lucid’s upcoming mid-size EV architecture, which is supposed to be smaller and cheaper
The first few hires at a startup can define the company. But increasingly, not every new capability requires a new employee. AI agents are beginning to take on engineering, customer support, research, and operational work that would previously have been assigned to early team members. For founders, that creates a new question before they even
Voice AI has emerged as one of the hottest sectors in AI, with investors pouring in billions of dollars to serve use cases ranging from automating customer support and sales calls to creating meeting notetakers and developing AI smart glasses that use voice as the primary interaction surface. Meanwhile, AI labs are quickly releasing models,
