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  7. Rohan Paul
    AI score71

    US prosecutors say former employee accused of planting eavesdropping devices in OpenAI executives' meeting rooms had Saudi government support

    BBC reports that US prosecutors say Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting eavesdropping devices in OpenAI executives' meeting rooms, has Saudi government ties. Prosecutors say an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family communicated with him frequently via WhatsApp and tried to recruit him to join a Saudi AI program; he is also alleged to have said in May that Saudi Arabia needed him more than the United States did, but that he would wait until his OpenAI stock vested before acting. Prosecutors say he used his wife's ChatGPT account to research making and encrypting recording devices, and used OpenAI's internal productivity agent to find rooms used by executives and external partners; OpenAI said it found no signs that model weights, source code, or customer data had been stolen.

    #Safety / alignment#OpenAI#Industry news

  9. Rohan Paul
    AI score76

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security requires civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and its derivative products

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, pursuant to the 2018 Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act, requires U.S. civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and DeepSeek-related products, as well as third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek, from information technology systems. DHS states that DeepSeek's hosted models store data on servers in China, with every prompt and response passing through that service, and that the data may be combined with public information to form actionable intelligence targeting U.S. personnel and government programs; for model weights running on U.S. servers, the ban relies on warnings that the models may contain malware or other vulnerabilities. Exceptions require an application submitted 60 days in advance with sufficient justification, and systems in national security systems and secure isolated information systems are outside the scope of the order; the only Chinese model named in the order is DeepSeek, while Kimi and Qwen face similar distillation allegations.

    Same story · 15 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#DeepSeek

  10. Rohan Paul
    AI score63

    Anthropic in talks for a second $45 billion compute deal with Nscale, West Virginia reservation doubles to 920 MW

    Anthropic is in talks with Nscale for a second $45 billion compute agreement that would double its West Virginia reservation to 920 MW, adding another 460 MW building at the Monarch Compute Campus running Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips; Anthropic also holds a right of first refusal on the campus's expected third building. The first contract was signed in August, a six-year 460 MW lease with delivery starting at the end of 2027, averaging about $7.5 billion a year, or roughly $16.3 million per MW. Nscale's IPO filing lists the agreement with Anthropic at a value of up to about $44.6 billion, and the value of the second deal depends on whether the first Monarch building and its Vera Rubin racks can be powered on schedule by the end of 2027.

    #Industry news#Anthropic#English text is being prepared.

  12. Rohan Paul
    AI score54

    US judge rejects $1 million bail bond offered by Saudi government for former OpenAI engineer

    A US federal judge rejected a $1 million bail bond offered by the Saudi government for former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan and ordered him to remain in custody. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse found that he may have access to wealth far exceeding that amount, making him difficult to recover if he flees. Prosecutors acknowledged that it is still unclear what he intended to take, and the case currently rests on a single wiretapping charge, which will be further explained at a hearing on November 6.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI

  13. Rohan Paul
    AI score78

    OpenAI seeks to raise about $30 billion at a valuation of over $1.4 trillion, aiming to close before Anthropic's IPO

    According to Reuters, OpenAI is seeking to raise about $30 billion at a valuation of more than $1.4 trillion before Anthropic's IPO, a valuation at least 64% higher than the $852 billion it reached in March. The two companies are competing for overlapping long-term funds and sovereign wealth funds, and OpenAI hopes to lock in commitments before Anthropic files its S-1 and goes public in mid-November, to avoid direct comparison. Anthropic's third-quarter revenue grew 45% to $16.8 billion, a slowdown from more than doubling in the second quarter, leading some investors to argue for a valuation of $1.5 trillion rather than $2 trillion.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  15. Aravind Srinivas
    AI score50

    Perplexity's open-source sandbox platform SPACE will be integrated into Crusoe's managed AI products

    Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said that Perplexity's open-source sandbox platform SPACE will become part of Crusoe Managed AI products. Crusoe previously announced a partnership with Perplexity to bring SPACE into the managed AI product portfolio of Crusoe Cloud, stating that agents need both secure sandboxes and GPUs. Srinivas believes that Crusoe has what it takes to become a full-stack cloud in terms of power, compute, and upper-layer services, and looks forward to more collaboration between the two sides.

    Quoted postCrusoe · @CrusoeAI

    Agents need secure sandboxes as much as they need GPUs. We're partnering with @perplexity_ai to bring SPACE to our Managed AI portfolio on Crusoe Cloud.

    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  19. TechCrunch AI
    AI score61

    Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to expand open-weight AI chips

    AI chip startup Tenstorrent has completed a $1.5 billion funding round at a valuation of $6.2 billion, more than double its $2.6 billion valuation at the end of 2024. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participation from Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price. CEO Jim Keller said the company decided to remain independent and continue raising funds after demonstrating that its Galaxy servers can run DeepSeek models, and that the new capital will be used to expand chips for open-weight model inference and video generation.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.