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Jeff Bezos Eyes ‘Artificial General Engineer’ as Prometheus Secures $12 B Funding

Jeff Bezos Prometheus received $12b in funding

Prometheus, the latest AI venture of Jeff Bezos has received $12 billion in latest round of funding even as the tech mogul envisions the company to build artificial general engineer.

Post Claude Fable 5 Release, Anthropic’s Dario Calls For AI Regulations

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for AI regulations.

In his detailed essay titled “Policy on the AI Exponential” Amodei has warned that while AI is advancing at a lightning pace in contrast to which policy and legislation is struggling to match that pace.

UK Sets Up AI Economics Institute, Partners with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Microsoft

U.K. government has established the AI Economics Institute (AIEI) that will build the data infrastructure, analytical capability and external relationships needed to assess AI’s economic impacts

The UK government has established the AI Economics Institute (AIEI) to study and track AI’s economic impacts on labor markets, productivity and growth.

Meta Taps Reliance for its First AI Data Centre in India with Jamnagar Deal

Meta will lease capacity at a new 168 MW AI-enabled data centre being developed by Reliance in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Meta will lease capacity at a new 168 MW AI-enabled data centre being developed by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The deal marks Meta’s first AI infrastructure footprint in India.

UK PM Keir Starmer Pushes AI Expansion While Warning Tech Firms Over AI-Generated Child Abuse Content

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer outlines Britain's AI strategy at London Tech Week, combining major AI investments with tougher expectations on child safety protections.

Starmer stressed that the pace of change cannot be an excuse for harm and that technology should adapt to the needs of society, not the other way round.

Sriram Krishnan Steps Down As White House AI Advisor

Sriram Krishnan steps down as senior AI advisor at the White House

Krishnan was appointed by the US President Donald Trump in December 2024 as a senior policy advisor for AI at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Stanford Study Uncovers Flaws in AI Chatbots Answering News Questions

AI chatbots are increasingly becoming a gateway to news, raising questions about accuracy and reliability.

A Stanford study found that while leading AI chatbots scored above 90% on many real-time news questions, those results masked significant weaknesses in regional performance, source attribution and responses to flawed prompts.

Anthropic Expands Claude Partner Ecosystem as 40,000 Firms Apply

Illustration of collaboration between Anthropic and consulting partners supporting enterprise Claude deployments.

Anthropic has launched the Services Track and Claude Partner Hub as it seeks to scale enterprise adoption of Claude through consulting and implementation partners.

Five AI Risks to Mathematics Identified by 16 Researchers From 15 Universities

Researchers at a Leiden workshop that helped shape the Leiden Declaration on AI and mathematics.Or slightly sharper:

The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics warns that AI-generated proofs could erode trust in mathematical research by producing convincing but difficult-to-detect errors.

OpenAI Launches Biodefense Program for Public Health and Pandemic Preparedness

DNA strands symbolize the biological research and biosecurity applications supported by OpenAI's Rosalind Biodefense program.

OpenAI has launched Rosalind Biodefense, a program that aims to help developers build biodefense and pandemic-preparedness tools using its GPT-Rosalind AI model. The company is also expanding access for select public-health and biodefense partners.