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Today’s updates on Techmeme
- Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup with $36M raised to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons — Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design […]
- Nate Jones / Washington Post: The US DHS says it will “revolutionize” its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted — Redactions are the Freedom of Information Act […]
- Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws — Update: Article rewritten with official confirmation from Citrix. — Citrix has […]
- Zachery Eanes / Axios: Ramona Optics, which makes microscopes that use AI to take and analyze large volumes of images of samples, raised a $25M Series A — Ramona Optics, a Durham startup making advanced microscopes for universities and […]
- Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M — By backing Precision Neuroscience, the billionaire Bill Ackman joins Elon […]
- Financial Times: Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting […]
- New York Times: How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks — Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, […]
- Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more — The software giant's AI chief also thinks the government should help […]
- Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives — One of Anthropic's earliest […]
- Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases — China's government has signaled it could allow […]
- Axios: Sources: Trump plans to host Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei — President Trump plans to host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White […]
- Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources: Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on “life support” — Apple weighs what to do next […]
- Lily Kuo / New York Times: In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals — In China, A.I. doomsday warnings […]
- Wall Street Journal: How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry — Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity […]
- Brian Danga / The Block: New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital — The funding follows HIFI's role in DTCC's July tokenized-asset trades […]
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