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Tokenmaxxing is over. That’s because it never measured what really counts to see ROI from AI
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. It’s Jeremy here, filling in for Sharon who is on vacation. In this edition…CNN sues Perplexity…IBM and RedHat form $5 billion bug patching project…Snowflake signs a $6 billion deal with AWS…and the White House gives U.S. intelligence agencies $9 billion to build their own AI chip cluster. Just…
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Exclusive: Geordie AI raises $30 million Series A to be ‘air traffic control’ for your company’s AI agents
Geordie AI, a London-based startup which provides a security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital. The round, which values the company at $155 million post-money, is believed to be the largest Series A round for a cybersecurity startup in Europe to date. The…
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Exclusive: Orbital Industries, startup using AI to discover exotic new materials, raises $50 million Series B funding round
Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by the venture capital firm Plural. Nventures, the venture arm of AI chip company Nvidia, which had previously invested in Orbital, joined the round along with other prior investors Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures.…
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Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
Imagine a world run by AI agents. What does it look like? What are the values or societal priorities? Is it a safer or more dangerous world? Enterprise AI startup Emergence AI is trying to find out. The company just launched Emergence World, a research lab dedicated to stress-testing the long-term viability of continuously-running AI…
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Blue Origin is providing NASA with landers as the agency plans moon base
NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will…
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Five giant hyperscalers—and Nvidia—share a surprising trait: female CFOs
The CFO job in Big Tech used to be defined largely by margins, operating leverage, and investor discipline. In the age of AI, it is increasingly defined by a more difficult question: how much should a company spend now on compute capacity it may not fully monetize for years to come? For Susan Li at…
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
Two of the most influential CEOs in tech spent the last year warning that AI would gut white-collar employment. Now they’re admitting they were wrong, joining other leaders like Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon in casting doubt on an AI job apocalypse. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an interview with Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO…
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As China bets its future on AI by cutting arts degrees, Jensen Huang says parents shouldn’t worry about what their kids study
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have studied engineering, but he says it won’t matter what your child studies in the future. Huang said even in a world dominated by AI journalism, the arts, and design are still going to matter. Therefore, parents shouldn’t worry about pushing their kids into AI-focused careers. “I think that it…
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Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it
Uber’s business model is one of the most AI-forward in Silicon Valley. AI decides your ride price, optimizes your route, among other predictive features. But even with these advanced features, an Uber executive is sounding the alarm on the rideshare company’s AI spending. In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and…
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Largest study of AI hiring algorithms to date finds ‘clear racial disparities’ — over 25% of Black applicants tainted by bias
The most comprehensive independent study of AI-powered hiring algorithms ever conducted has found stark racial disparities embedded in the tools used to screen millions of job applicants, with more than one in four applications submitted by Black job seekers directed to positions where the algorithm produces outcomes that trigger federal discrimination scrutiny. The paper, “Algorithmic…