AMD’s $8.2 billion World Labs deal
AMD agreed on 28 September to buy World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, for about $8.2 billion in AMD stock. Taken on its own, it reads as a chipmaker buying talent and a head start in physical AI, and that is how most of the coverage has framed it. Taken alongside
Anthropic planning the largest IPO
Anthropic is planning what could be the largest initial public offering in history. But if AI continues on its current trajectory, humans may not be around much longer to enjoy it.To pull off a successful offering that values it at $2 trillion, Anthropic, whose name means “human-centered,” will need plenty of mortal investors to help
Google DeepMind watermarks AI-generated protein
In what can be called a major breakthrough for synthetic biology and AI-powered biosecurity, Google DeepMind, Google’s AI lab, has developed a new method to watermark AI-designed proteins, establishing a permanent proof of origin directly inside biological code. Published in the journal Nature, the proof-of-concept technology, which is named SynthID Bio, solves a long-standing technical
Synopsys, OpenAI strike deal to develop AI model for chip design work
Synopsys, a maker of software used in designing computing chips, said on Wednesday that it has struck a deal to share revenue with OpenAI as the two develop an AI model for the chip business. GPT-Synopsys, as the model will be called, will be specifically trained and tuned to take on chip design tasks, which
Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk set to take off for six-month stay on space station
Canada’s next space traveller is fast approaching his scheduled departure – but the weather may have other ideas. On Wednesday afternoon, officials at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida said there was a 55 per cent chance of favourable conditions for the launch of a four-person crew heading to the International Space Station for half
Advanced Micro Device to acquire World Labs in All-Stock Deal
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. agreed to acquire all equity interests in World Labs Technologies, Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion, with the final share count determined by the volume-weighted average trading price of AMD’s stock prior to closing. AMD plans to issue the shares through a private placement relying on registration
IPO must wait for safer models as legal suit takes cause
OpenAI’s unintentional cyberattack against the startup Hugging Face has now become the cause of action in a case filed by the non-profit organisation over its models.The alleged attack saw OpenAI agents go rogue and escape their testing environment. It was one of the first known cases of a model autonomously hacking another company after breaking
A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics is planning what it calls “Project Beehive” on over 9,000 acres of land held under the Bureau of Land Management near Price, Utah. The facility would include data centers and some 456 small nuclear reactors, along with a facility to produce nuclear fuel and others for storing nuclear waste. In aggregate, the reactors
OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent
Less than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of AI tools.OpenAI’s dots are colorful little blobs, donning berets or glasses, that appear on people’s phones or laptops, can be integrated into other apps and can follow
US withdraws forces in Iraq
U.S. military forces withdrew from bases in Iraq on Wednesday following two decades of American involvement that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of U.S. troops, and now leaves a battered but increasingly influential Iran at the center of the region’s future. The last remaining forces relocated Jordan,