Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
Investors and funding
EU tech chief says AI guardrails are coming to the US anyway
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HEALTH TECH
Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone
Berlin's Vara has EU clearance for AI that reports clearly normal mammograms with no radiologist reading them. Its own headline study tested a different mode, and its market-share figures do not agree across three documents.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropic was expected to publish its IPO prospectus this week. Reuters reports it has slipped to late September, with marketing from mid-October and the listing completing days before the US midterms. A $15bn credit facility is the gate. The Anthropic IPO could price at $2trn.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it
Anil Chakravarthy ran customer experience orchestration and enterprise field operations, not Photoshop. He takes over from Shantanu Narayen on 1 December, a week after Adobe reports Q3.
OPENAI
OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
OpenAI put out two posts on Sunday. Its research organisation now uses 3.1 agent-workdays for every human one, and its chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed. The case for an OpenAI slowdown arrived with the numbers against it.