Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone — As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms …
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities — OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models — Chinese open-source models like Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen are now dominant AI tools. American upstarts like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines …
Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance — Building trust in the AI age — It's getting harder to tell what's real on the internet. — This is less true on Substack, and we aim to keep it that way.
Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant — Snap Inc. said it has reached a tentative agreement to settle the second case set for trial over claims that the world's largest …
Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M — AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices …
Hugging Face says it used the open-weight GLM-5.2 hosted on its own compute for breach forensics, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked the requests — The unknown attacker “abused two code-execution paths in our dataset processing (a remote-code dataset loader and a template-injection …