2026-08-11
Pathway Raises New Funding at $500M Valuation to Scale Post-Transformer AI
AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million as it prepares to scale a new generation of models built around its post-Transformer architecture. The financing includes participation from Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment Co., the investment arm of Wilson Sonsin [...]
2026-08-11
OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock
OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company's $852 billion valuation. The move is meant to ease pressure on employees waiting for liquidity ahead of a potential IPO. OpenAI ran a similar $6.6 billion sale in October 2025.<br /> The article OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock appeared first on The De [...]
2026-08-11
"But marinade" and leaked passwords are what researchers found in ChatGPT's hidden reasoning
Security researchers found a vulnerability in the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that lets them extract encrypted reasoning traces and move them between models. A scan of public sessions turned up dozens of passwords and API keys. The traces also show that the reasoning summaries users see often hide what the models are actually doing.<br /> The article "But marinade" and le [...]
