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Jaime Hampton

Anthropic’s $13B Series F Caps a Year of Rapid Growth

September 3rd, 2025 Comments Off on Anthropic’s $13B Series F Caps a Year of Rapid Growth
Anthropic has announced it raised $13 billion in a Series F round at a post-money valuation of $183 billion. The company says the investment will expand its capacity to meet growing demand for its products as it continues to ...

Meet 2025 AIwire Person to Watch Ian Buck

August 29th, 2025 Comments Off on Meet 2025 AIwire Person to Watch Ian Buck
GPUs began as graphics accelerators, built to rasterize triangles and shade pixels. Then they trained deep nets. Now they run the large models behind climate research, protein design, materials discovery, and automated lab work. What happens when these engines ...

Shadow AI at Work Is Quietly Rewriting Job Dynamics

August 28th, 2025 Comments Off on Shadow AI at Work Is Quietly Rewriting Job Dynamics
In a recent report, MIT’s NANDA team has uncovered a workplace trend where employee use of generative AI is widespread, but official enterprise deployment remains more limited. In "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025," the authors ...

Ai2 Launches Asta, an Open Agentic Ecosystem for Science

August 27th, 2025 Comments Off on Ai2 Launches Asta, an Open Agentic Ecosystem for Science
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has introduced Asta, a new AI platform that combines an agentic research assistant, a benchmark suite for evaluating scientific agents, and developer resources for building and testing tools. Ai2 positions Asta as a ...

DeepSeek R2 Stalls on Huawei Chips as OpenAI Opens Its Weights

August 22nd, 2025 Comments Off on DeepSeek R2 Stalls on Huawei Chips as OpenAI Opens Its Weights
Several developments around Beijing-based startup DeepSeek and its ripple effects on global AI competition surrounded the AI in China front this week. The headlines ranged from a hardware-driven delay of the firm’s next large model to a new release ...

Why Your New AI Tools (and the Companies Making Them) Are Failing You

August 20th, 2025 Comments Off on Why Your New AI Tools (and the Companies Making Them) Are Failing You
The initial euphoria surrounding generative AI is officially over. It has been replaced by a simmering, and in many cases boiling, frustration from the very users these platforms are meant to serve. The recent rollout of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 is ...

GPT-5 Arrives As OpenAI Explores $500B Valuation and Ships Open Models

August 7th, 2025 Comments Off on GPT-5 Arrives As OpenAI Explores $500B Valuation and Ships Open Models
It’s been a monumental week for OpenAI. Tuesday saw the release of a new open weight family of models, gpt-oss. Midweek, news broke that the company is in talks with investors for a potential stock sale at a valuation ...

From Chaos to Clarity: How AIOps Transforms Business Intelligence

August 4th, 2025 Comments Off on From Chaos to Clarity: How AIOps Transforms Business Intelligence
Managing IT infrastructure has never been easy, but for modern enterprises, it’s become nearly impossible. Companies are drowning in data from IT systems, applications, and digital platforms with no end to the deluge in sight. With the post-pandemic shift ...

From Hypothesis to Hardware: Four Voices on the Future of Scientific AI at TPC25

August 1st, 2025 Comments Off on From Hypothesis to Hardware: Four Voices on the Future of Scientific AI at TPC25
From national labs to hyperscale clouds to academic research, Wednesday's first plenary session at TPC25 asked the same question from different angles: What will it take for AI to stop describing science and start doing it? Argonne’s Ian Foster ...

Beyond Speed: TPC25 Maps the Road to Science-Ready AI

July 31st, 2025 Comments Off on Beyond Speed: TPC25 Maps the Road to Science-Ready AI
So far this week, TPC25 has brought together researchers who share one goal: to turn frontier-scale AI into a practical scientific tool. Tuesday's afternoon talks captured the range of work now underway. Satoshi Matsuoka of RIKEN showed how progress ...
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