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Blackstone’s Jon Gray says AI infrastructure needs more equity financing

Blackstone President Jon Gray said in Hong Kong that the artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout will require more equity financing because lenders are becoming increasingly...

Meta and Duke study finds reward hacking can spread between AI models

A study by Meta Superintelligence Labs and Duke University shows that small coding agents trained to game their evaluators can pass the strategy to...

Tutor Intelligence raises $75M Series B led by a16z to scale robot deployment

Tutor Intelligence, a robotics startup based in Watertown, Massachusetts, raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), announced on...

Harvard-linked study finds reasoning models get stuck on their first few words

A study posted on arXiv shows that reasoning models suffer an entropy collapse in the first tokens of their reasoning, leading them to repeatedly...

Bitwise and Coinbase executives back CCIP’s split model for real-world blockchain use

Bitwise President Teddy Fusaro and Coinbase executives defend Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, or CCIP, and its separation of message confirmation from execution. The architecture...

Sei’s Autobahn Consensus Vote Clears Quorum

The vote on Sei’s SIP-6 improvement proposal has cleared the required quorum. The proposal would allow validators to propose transactions simultaneously. Its activation still...

Stellar’s Bell Upgrade Goes Live on Testnet Ahead of Mainnet Vote

Stellar's Bell upgrade has been deployed on the blockchain's testnet ahead of a token-holder vote on its activation on the mainnet. Wallets and indexers...

Jill Hazelbaker leaves Uber to become OpenAI’s chief corporate affairs officer

Jill Hazelbaker, Uber’s president and chief corporate affairs officer, is joining OpenAI as chief corporate affairs officer, according to Axios. She will oversee global...