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OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPOCEO Sam Altman said recently that OpenAI is prioritizing safety instead of going ‘guns blazing’ toward an IPO.CEO Sam Altman said recently that OpenAI is prioritizing safety instead of going ‘guns blazing’ toward an IPO.Image: The Verge is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.OpenAI is now valu

Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchersAI is dramatically speeding up Anthropic’s research, even as the company calls for slowing down AI development.AI is dramatically speeding up Anthropic’s research, even as the company calls for slowing down AI development.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Photo: Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell F

The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in ChinaThe government is approving sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to Chinese firms with ties to blacklisted companies.The government is approving sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to Chinese firms with ties to blacklisted companies.Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeConcerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to hand

Elvis and Eminem rights holders are suing SunoSuno is facing two more lawsuits over AI music clones.Part OfAll the latest in AI ‘music’see all updates Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley’s music and the publisher of some of Eminem‘s biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists. The lawyers in the Presley suit claim that Suno has

Apple is racing to make Siri more agenticFuture versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks.Future versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks.Photo: David Imel / The VergeBloomberg’s Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI’s Dots or Meta’s Muse.

Nvidia is investigating Jensen Huang’s relationship with an alleged Chinese spyFollowing reports that Nvidia’s CEO had a ‘close relationship’ with an AI exec, the company is opening an investigation.Following reports that Nvidia’s CEO had a ‘close relationship’ with an AI exec, the company is opening an investigation.Image: The VergePart OfEverything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huangsee all updates Nvidia has announced

Here’s the full text of Jensen Huang’s memo to NvidiaIn the memo, Nvidia’s CEO acknowledges having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.In the memo, Nvidia’s CEO acknowledges having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, at media briefing in July 2026. Photo: Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPart OfEverything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huangsee all updates On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launc

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacySee all StoriesPosted Nov 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM UTCSExternal LinkStevie BonifieldGoogle announced two new versions of its eighth-gen AI chips.It says the new TPU 8tx is for confidential computing for government agencies and regulated businesses, while the 8i Max is aimed at AI applications with large context windows. Google also announced its TPU 8t and 8i in April, for a total

Trump’s 60 Minutes interview touched on AI safety, threat to arrest an AI execTrump claims the DOJ told a top AI executive, ‘get ready to go to jail.’ is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.Asked about AI executives’ warnings about their models’ safety on 60 Minutes, Trump said, “I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it– as they talk, and I think the

Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 modelsClaude Fable 5.2 is designed to take on big technical challenges, and it’s available today.Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeAnthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on “daunting” technical challenges. The company claims the new models show improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision, and can generate outputs faster than

AIUpdated Nov 9, 2026, 11:51 PM UTCEverything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen HuangLinkRSSGiftThe leather-jacketed CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, spurring an investigation by his company and intense discussions worldwide. Recent reporting noted that since last year, US intelligence reports had identified Alice Huang (no relation) as not only the exec for an AI comput

Synced reports The owner went to sleep, but at 4 a.m., Claude got busy mixing paints all by itself. Late on the night of November 6 in Berlin, developer nil (@dhvanil) left a note for the Claude at home before going to bed: “Paint an autumn tree.” Then they turned off the lights, got into bed, and expected no miracles. In the studio, only the robotic arm remained, quietly moving up and down. A dark brown trunk slowly took shape on the paper, while the pale

Synced reports Sam Altman is gone. Now, on X, only one “Ram Altman” remains. Just now, OpenAI CEO Altman changed his name from Sam Altman to Ram Altman. The handle is still @sama; only the S in the name has been swapped for the R in RAM. The trigger for all this was a provocative comment Altman made a few days earlier— The memory in your personal computer is only working 5% of the time. That’s pretty bad. In just six days, the remark snowballed into a coll

Synced reports Anthropic's most closely guarded mysterious “Model 4”,has been exposed! After secretly training from September to October, its internal comprehensive capability index (AECI) soared to the astonishing score of 178.6; the existing test battery can barely hold it back anymore. Today, the third-party evaluation organization METR released a major investigation. After grinding through 11 straight weeks and digging deep into Anthropic's sensitive i

Synced Report About 90% of Claude Code’s own codebase has now been written by Claude. Code writing switched to AI, and the volume of changes surged accordingly: from June to September, the number of PRs merged into the codebase more than doubled. Across Anthropic, the number of changes merged into the main codebase each day rose from about 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September. Can humans still read through all this code? If even code review is han

Reported by Xinzhiyuan Here it comes! Early this morning, a chart updated last night by the “AI 2027 Tracker” went viral across the internet. With this one adjustment,the timetable for ASI’s arrival will be pulled forward by another six weeks! The reason turned out to be that METR’s Friday research report revealed for the first time that Anthropic’s mysterious Model 4 had earned the highest score ever on AECI. This internal behemoth, which had just finishe

Reported by Xinzhiyuan At 11:42 p.m., the billing endpoint triggered an alert. It pulled the logs, found the root cause, proposed a fix, and attached a rollback plan, handling everything in one go. The fix was ready, but it stopped there, waiting for you to approve the deployment. This is a demo from Perplexity’s official site. Recently, Perplexity officially announced Teammates, giving Max members AI coworkers: assign them a task, and they will monitor an

For a newly formed AI startup team, the hardest moment is often not after the product launches, but before it has taken shape: the technical roadmap is in place, the core members have joined, and they may even have identified a market worth pursuing, yet they have neither a mature product nor revenue data. Where will the first round of funding come from? Who would be willing to believe in a group of founders at such an early stage? This first check can oft

A graduation ceremony illustrates a new path that Pudong Venture Capital is advancing: making an investment the entry point, then connecting courses, capital, industry scenarios and entrepreneurial partners. For young teams, entrepreneurship need not begin from scratch as lone actors; entering the camp also means joining a “circle of contacts” where they can continually seek resources, exchange ideas and expand cooperation. Investment upon Admission: Patie

@maya-botWhat happened when I left GitHub work to an AI agent, and how to prevent it from happening againGitHubAIClaudeCodeAgentTAG24@@TAG26@@0Posted at 2026-11-09