Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP

Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner. 

Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says

Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent journalist in Angola.

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’

OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from “Cameo” to “Characters.”

Tesla dodges 30-day suspension in California after removing ‘Autopilot’

The decision comes a month after Tesla discontinued Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system.

DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter

The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI

The new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.

Heron Power raises $140M to ramp production of grid-altering tech

Tesla alumni Drew Baglino raises a large round to build a giga-scale factory, this time at his own startup.

India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses

The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.

World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows

The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases. 

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises

The creative company’s monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.