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HEO develops cameras that inspect and monitor satellites in space, and has raised a $37 million Series B from the NRF, Beaten Zone Ventures and Airtree.

In experiments by startup Irregular, one of Anthropic and OpenAI’s security testers, an Alibaba Qwen agent decided to retrain an entire model when it was asked to fix a basic software bug. The new behavior adds to concerns about AI models’ unpredictability.

T. Rowe Price and Franklin Templeton, which each manage trillions in assets, bought into Canva at a US$40 billion valuation in 2021. Canva is preparing a foundation model it hopes will help reverse the trend.

Zuckerberg and Huang have recently opposed calls to slow down frontier AI development while Musk has backed a push by Amodei to pace advancements until

Conversations about artificial intelligence recently took a dark turn after a whistleblower sounded the alarm on the technology’s potential to wipe out humanity.

As OpenAI says it is shifting focus to human impact, Sam Altman took to the Dreamforce stage with Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. AI model failures are inevitable, Altman says, and should be treated as road or airline safety incidents to facilitate an unprecedented global boom in entrepreneurship and prosperity.

Cathie Wood, one of the world’s most famous tech investors, told Australian media that an Anthropic researcher’s warning AI could lead to humanity’s extinction is “ridiculous.” But there is investment opportunity amid the fear generated, she says.

The slump in AI stocks follows calls for a slowdown in advanced AI development from the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.

Leaders in artificial intelligence have called for a slowdown to AI development amid fears the technology could lead to human extinction.

He once mused about how he could become a billionaire. Now he’s worth more than $25 billion.