weekly-highlights
Hugging Face goes from a 'scrappy' startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition | Fortune
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue:…
AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles | Fortune
Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley…
Why are AI safety experts alarmed by reports OpenAI’s Astra model uses “recurrent depth”? | Fortune
AI safety experts are raising alarms about how OpenAI has built its soon-to-be-released frontier AI model…
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet, and touts its ability to use your computer | Fortune
OpenAI’s newest and most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, is out today, and one of its hallmark…
Galderma's $650 million bet on U.S. manufacturing captures Europe's new investment playbook | Fortune
Good morning. The English are coming. So are the Dutch, Germans, Danish, Swiss and other Europeans…
Gloria Steinem, who fought for decades for women's equality, dies at 92 | Fortune
Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and…
Canva’s productivity push is starting to gain traction—and in Southeast Asia, it’s happening on phones | Fortune
Canva, the Australian design startup, says its users have created 4.5 billion presentations and 1.4 billion…
Saudi fires up Gulf AI race with $15bn tech deals at LEAP | Fortune
LEAP, Saudi’s biggest tech conference, kicked off on Monday with$15 billion worth of planned technology investmentsand…
San Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the left | Fortune
Nothing has the Democratic Party more split than taxing billionaires. San Francisco Democrats have broken with…
Tennis star Novak Djokovic was knocked out during the first round of the U.S. Open—but he’ll still walk away with $140,000, and millions off-court | Fortune
With the U.S. Open underway, tennis’ biggest stars face off in New York City to hoist…