2026-08-18
Anthropic increases revenue sevenfold, hits annualized rate above $65 billion
Anthropic's annualized revenue has topped $65 billion, a sevenfold increase in one year, according to Bloomberg. The company could go public as early as fall 2026 at a $1 trillion valuation, potentially beating OpenAI to market.<br /> The article Anthropic increases revenue sevenfold, hits annualized rate above $65 billion appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
2026-08-18
Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift
Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attached to the milestone: the first people to ride in it will […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-18
Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model
A defence software start-up that most of Silicon Valley had never heard of a year ago is suddenly flush with cash, and the reason says a great deal about where the Pentagon is steering the technology industry. Smack Technologies, an Austin-based firm building artificial-intelligence tools for the battlefield, said on Monday that it had raised […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-18
Medly AI raises $8m to put an AI tutor in front of every UK exam student
Sometimes the most genuine projects emerge from gaps we identify in our own lives or in the society around us. And maybe this should be our focus as a society: to use all the technology at our disposal to solve problems that were almost impossible to address before. Medly AI, a London exam-prep platform built […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-18
AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context
When AI systems condense long conversations, they drop an average of 83 percent of user rules, like "don't send emails without my approval." Penn State researchers propose a small add-on module built on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90 percent of these restrictions.<br /> The article AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context appeared first on The De [...]
