UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk
Artificial Intelligence
Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Ineffable Intelligence names six cofounders, Fortune reports
David Silver has named six new Ineffable Intelligence cofounders, four of them from Google DeepMind, at a company that is ten months old and has no product. Three worked on AlphaStar with him. Fortune reported the hires, which the six confirmed by quietly updating LinkedIn.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Musk ally’s Valor to lead $500m Uforce round at $5bn, Bloomberg reports
Uforce, the London-based company built from nine Ukrainian drone makers, is in talks to raise about $500m at a valuation near $5bn, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Valor Equity Partners, the Musk-allied firm run by Antonio Gracias, would lead. In March the company was worth just over $1bn.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock
Dubai Chambers has opened agentic AI training for more than 14,000 member companies, the first delivery of a two-year push ordered by the Crown Prince in May. The promised incubators and funds have no numbers yet. And the technology itself had a rough week.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for sovereign AI, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg reports that Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei chips for its 2 billion ringgit sovereign AI project. It would be the first foreign government to openly choose Chinese accelerators over American ones. Washington warned last year that buying these exact chips could break its rules.
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