GlobalFoundries said Wednesday that the U.S. government will award it $300 million to advance research and development of silicon photonics technology aimed at powering more efficient AI data centers. The funding, issued through the Department of Commerce, is part of the Trump administration’s push to direct CHIPS Act research money toward critical semiconductor technologies as…

Continue Reading

Moonshot AI has secured a $35 billion valuation after closing a $3.5 billion funding round, far exceeding the $1 billion to $2 billion the Beijing-based startup initially targeted, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is now approaching potential backers for another round at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, aiming to raise capital…

Continue Reading

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI development may need to slow down to give society time to adjust to new capability levels, speaking on the Invest Like the Best podcast with host Patrick O’Shaughnessy. He said any such pacing effort would need to avoid resembling regulatory capture or collusion among frontier labs. Both OpenAI and…

Continue Reading

Insider Brief Neo, an agentic software control company founded by SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks veterans, has emerged from stealth with $100 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures The platform gives SecOps teams inventory, risk intelligence, real-time attribution, and policy control…

Continue Reading

Insider Brief Empirical Security, which builds predictive models for exposure management, has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Brightmind Partners, bringing total funding to $37 million following earlier backing from Costanoa Ventures and Hyde Park Angels The capital will accelerate two products: Foundation, a global model monitoring more than 18,000 exploited CVEs,…

Continue Reading

Bunkerhill Health has closed a $55 million Series B round to scale Carebricks, its agentic AI platform for hospitals, with continued backing from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, Y Combinator, and new investor Khosla Ventures. The company said Carebricks lets health systems build their own AI agents rather than adopt a fixed product, with use…

Continue Reading

Meta has announced that it is expanding Meta AI’s presence on Threads by rolling out chatbot access directly within the platform’s DMs, giving users a private way to interact with the assistant. The company had previously tested Meta AI in Threads’ public posts in select markets, similar to how Grok functions on X, but this…

Continue Reading

PJM Interconnection, operator of the largest power grid in the United States, has said it will curtail electricity to data centers and other large users during power shortages after an auction to secure additional generating capacity fell short. The decision comes as data center construction accelerates nationwide, with facilities expected to consume four times more…

Continue Reading

Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 3,210 new readers who joined us yesterday. Frontier AI labs don’t agree on much. But today, 1,000+ of their employees found one thing worth co-signing: the option to slow down. The statement, signed by members of…

Continue Reading

Google’s AI-generated summaries appeared in 43% of US searches measured by Similarweb, up from 15% a year earlier, according to the market intelligence firm’s 2026 Generative AI Landscape report. AI Overviews display generated summaries within conventional Google results, while AI Mode provides a conversational interface for longer questions and follow-up prompts. Users can move from…

Continue Reading