Innovation

The hire marks a win for the Claude maker in the high-stakes AI talent wars.

The startup hoped to begin constructing facilities at the Brisbane Airport Industrial Park last year. Now it’s found a new home for its quantum computer, due by the end of next year.

Founded in 2024, Goodfire is trying to fix AI’s black box problem — increasingly important as AI systems take on high-stakes tasks in cybersecurity and finance.

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OpenAI could soon take legal action against Apple after the company’s promise to integrate ChatGPT into its software hasn’t fully panned out, Bloomberg reports.

Periodic Labs, which plans to push breakthroughs in physics and chemistry using artificial intelligence, has seen its valuation jump sixfold in just eight months.

Cofounded in 2019 by former consultant Jennifer Smith, Scribe’s software helps hundreds of thousands of companies record what their employees do so AI agents can take over repetitive tasks in the future.

Synthetic microbiomes to treat disease. Sea levels may rise faster than we thought. AI for scientific researchers. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

Megan Gale, Dr Adam Brown, Bahar Etminan, and Nick Bell gathered at the 2026 Forbes Women Summit presented by Lancome, to discuss the mainstreaming of longevity and the resonance of biology over birthdays.

Anthropic has also expressed interest in partnering up with SpaceX on the development of AI data centers in space.