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6 days ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Anthropic has made its first investment in another startup, putting $1 million into Goodfire, a one-year-old startup that helps AI developers understand the inner workings of their AI models, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investment.The check is a small slice of the $50 ...
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1 week ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Source: The InformationHugging Face, a nine-year-old startup that hosts open-source models and datasets for developers, has acquired Pollen Robotics, a 30-person robotics maker for an undisclosed sum, said a spokesperson for Hugging Face. Pollen, based in Bordeaux, France, earlier this year debuted the second generation of Reachy, a $70,000 robot mounted on a rolling base designed to help robotics labs with research.
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1 week ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Source: The InformationA dozen former OpenAI employees argued in a court brief filed Friday that OpenAI’s nonprofit should remain in control of the ChatGPT maker’s business. The document in support of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI includes former employees such as Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders who have previously criticized OpenAI’s safety practices and supported whistleblower protections for employees of AI companies.
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2 weeks ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Source: The InformationOpenAI countersued Elon Musk, saying Musk has harmed the ChatGPT maker by using Musk’s X network to conduct “malicious campaigns,” unfairly disrupted its business and issued a “sham bid” to acquire OpenAI. As a result, OpenAI’s lawyers in a Wednesday filing said it is entitled to restitution and asked the court to award punitive damages, as well as to block Musk from further interference in OpenAI’s business.
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2 weeks ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
A stock market rout triggered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese and European goods is threatening to end the artificial intelligence–powered gold rush that has buoyed Silicon Valley for more than two years. Eric Bahn, a co-founder of early-stage venture firm Hustle Fund, is advising startups the firm has backed to be more cautious with spending and to purchase any hardware, like laptops or phones, before prices increase.
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2 weeks ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Source: The InformationElon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI will go to trial in March 2026, lawyers for both parties agreed in federal district court on Friday. That’s three months later than the two parties had previously proposed. Musk is trying to stop OpenAI from converting to a for-profit corporation from its current nonprofit form.
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3 weeks ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
It’s not every day you hear a robotics founder trying to cool the hype surrounding their industry, but Rodney Brooks has seen it all before. Speaking at a conference Tuesday hosted by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, Brooks, a founder of multiple robotics companies including the one behind Roomba vacuums, showed attendees a slide on “AI hype cycles I have seen” in his decades-long career. It contained no fewer than 28 examples, with humanoid robots and AI agents capping off the list.
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3 weeks ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Agility Robotics, a humanoid robot maker led by former Microsoft executive Peggy Johnson, is raising $400 million at a pre-investment valuation of $1.75 billion, according to a person who has seen the term sheet. The financing demonstrates how advances in artificial intelligence have sparked intensifying interest in the sector from investors as well as large AI developers including OpenAI and Meta Platforms.
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1 month ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
Source: ReutersThe initial public listing of Cerebras Systems, which designs semiconductors for artificial intelligence, has stalled pending review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., Reuters reported Tuesday. The multi-agency committee, which assesses the national security concerns of foreign investments in U.S. businesses, has delayed the IPO over concerns about the company’s Abu Dhabi-based investor G42, Reuters said.
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1 month ago | 
theinformation.com | Rocket Drew
During Nvidia’s conference for developers last week, CEO Jensen Huang showed off software that creates computer simulations of robots. Those simulations aim to teach robots how to perform tasks, from washing dishes to picking up household objects. But some robot makers I spoke to say it’s better to train robots to do such tasks by having a person control them remotely, also known as teleoperation, and then directing an AI model to imitate those actions.
