Microsoft reported a $3.2 billion quarterly gain from its Anthropic investment and a $600 million write-down on its OpenAI stake, tucked into blockbuster fiscal fourth-quarter results showing $90 billion in quarterly revenue and $35.8 billion in net income. For the full fiscal year, ending June 30, Microsoft reported $331.8 billion in revenue and $133.7 billion…

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Natural has raised a $30 million Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued backing from existing investors, bringing the company’s total funding to over $40 million. The round closed when the company was 193 days old and drew participation from Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, and a range of individual…

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Insider Brief Alocity has completed its Series A round, led by a private investor group alongside founder Marco Quintero, with funds accelerating product innovation and expanding engineering, sales, marketing, and security integration partnerships The company’s platform is built around Aimee, an AI Operator for Physical Spaces that lets users describe intent rather than navigate separate…

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Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week she is stepping down from the startup, citing health concerns tied to the pace and stress of startup work. She said she had concluded over several months that the sustained workload had exceeded what her health could support. OpenAI confirmed Wednesday that Weng, who previously served…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 6,146 new readers who joined us yesterday. The sci-fi style breach that saw OpenAI’s models hack into Hugging Face happened weeks ago, but the victim list is still growing. A second company confirmed that a customer…

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The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. This week, AI companies were reportedly buying old books while Nvidia released a simulator that teaches robots through video,…

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Cybersecurity wasn’t really something small and mid-sized businesses worried about too much a few years back. That’s changed fast. Once your customer data, your apps, your internal tools all end up online, protecting the server behind them stops being optional. And attacks aren’t getting any simpler either, which is part of the problem with sticking…

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Mark Zuckerberg has published a WSJ op-ed that argues superintelligence must reach individuals, not just a handful of institutions. The Meta chief published the piece as a statement of company philosophy rather than a product announcement. It contains no release dates, no benchmark figures, no named models. What it does contain is an argument that…

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Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new epoch in computing. Hardware is changing rapidly — not just faster GPUs, but a growing range of chips from different vendors, each with its own architecture and often tailored to specific…

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Every model launch these days arrives with a wall of numbers: a score on a knowledge test, a score on a coding test, a score on a reasoning test, each one presented as settled proof of superiority. The numbers look objective, and in a narrow sense they are, since every model faced the same questions…

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