Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks — Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup …
Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer — Manus, an artificial intelligence startup founded in China, is expanding its AI agent offerings, aiming to gain further ground in one of the tech industry's hottest areas.
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 Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems
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, gathered senior officials for an exclusive meeting at a 19th-century palace outside Brussels this month.
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 “drive” the process of evaluating models.
Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data — Autonomous bots hit public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter — OpenAI agents bombarded …
Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies' costly AI resources