AI
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World’s largest sovereign wealth fund backs push for Google oversight on government AI contracts
Alphabet shareholders are set to vote on Friday on a resolution that calls for greater transparency over the risks posed by government use of Google’s cloud and AI technology. The vote has gained momentum after Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, announced it will back the proposal against Alphabet management’s…
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Amazon and Google have billions riding on Anthropic. The IPO will finally reveal how much.
Anthropic, most recently valued at $965 billion, has confidentially filed for an IPO—gearing up for what could be one of the largest public offerings in history. Details on the share count and price range won’t be officially disclosed until the S-1 registration statement is released to the public. Still, the company is widely expected to…
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Bernie Sanders wants Americans to own a piece of AI. The Trump White House seems to agree
Senator Bernie Sanders wants every American to own a piece of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Late on Monday, he posted a video describing his vision: the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% tax on each company’s stock, paid in shares, depositing the equity into a public fund that gives…
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Who is Chris Olah? The atheist Anthropic cofounder the Pope chose to sit beside him at the Vatican and tell the tech industry it can’t govern itself
Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV as he delivered his first encyclical on the dangers of AI was a curious speaker: a self-declared atheist and the billionaire cofounder of one of the most valuable AI companies in the world. Chris Olah, one of Anthropic’s cofounders and a prominent AI safety researcher who serves as the company’s…
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Exclusive: Apoha, a startup building AI models for creating new materials, emerges from stealth with $36 million Series A funding round
Apoha, a deep tech startup that is building AI models for creating new kinds of substances—from proteins to food products to paints—based on a new kind of data about how materials behave, is emerging from stealth today with $36 million in venture capital funding. The funding round, which is the London- and San Francisco-based startup’s…
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Microsoft seeks to be AI’s center of gravity again. CEO Satya Nadella is in San Francisco to make the case
Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella proclaimed a “new paradigm” on Tuesday in a keynote at the company’s Build conference in San Francisco. He was talking about the advent of agentic AI, but for anyone who has followed Nadella’s company closely in recent years, he could have just as easily been talking about Microsoft. After taking…
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Trump killed his own AI order, then quietly signed another one weeks later
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Tuesday, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology. The order establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI…
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Jensen Huang says he pays Nvidia staff ‘as much as possible’ in bid to share the wealth from AI boom
Jensen Huang has done pretty well out of the AI boom: As the CEO of Nvidia, he now sits on a net worth of approximately $186 billion, and has made multiple members of his board billionaires by association. It’s a trend Huang seems keen to continue: Sharing the enormous wealth that is being generated by…
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The ‘godfather of AI’ says we’re not just creating new beings — they’ll be much smarter than us, and soon
Geoffrey Hinton almost didn’t believe he’d won the Nobel Prize. When the committee called in 2024, the 77-year-old computer scientist ran a quick calculation in his head. What are the odds, he asked himself, that a theoretical psychologist hiding in computer science gets the Nobel Prize in physics? “Well, maybe one in two million,” he…
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Anthropic confidentially files its S-1 first—but the IPO race with OpenAI is just beginning
Anthropic’s S-1 filing on Monday was confidential, but there’s much we already know about the $965 billion AI juggernaut. The nearly trillion-dollar startup (if it can be called such a thing) has gotten so big that it’s hard to hide in the markets the way a growth-spurting elephant is hard to hide in a zoo.…