Author: Advanced AI Editor
A startup called Definite reckons it can help businesses to do away with their clunky big-data stacks and business intelligence tools after raising $10 million in seed funding today. The round was led by Coatanoa and saw participation from Acrew Capital and a number of strategic angel investors. Definite, officially known as Luabase Inc., is the creator of an all-encompassing, full-stack and artificial intelligence-native data platform. Its goal is to help enterprises to rip out a mix of costly big-data tools, replacing them with something that’s much simpler to set up and significantly more affordable. As the startup explains, most…
While Europe may lag overall in the race for global AI dominance, the region has produced some strong contenders. Among them, the most heavily funded and probably best known is Paris-based generative AI startup Mistral AI, which was in the spotlight today with the announcement of a roughly $2 billion Series C round. Semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML Holding led the financing, joined by a long list of existing investors 1. The round sets a $13.7 billion valuation for the 2-year-old company, which is roughly double the level set in its June 2024 Series B. The new valuation may sound middle-of-the-road…
Grieving job layoffs while battling the uncertainty of navigating a fiercely competitive job market can impact your mental health. New research reveals that layoffs are sparking a mental health pandemic in the U.S. The American Psychological Association notes that the impact of layoffs can have a long-term impact on workers’ mental health and emotional well-being. As the workforce witnessed a 140% increase in layoffs in July 2025 compared to July 2024, laid-off workers are left suspended in a “what’s next?” mindset.The Neuroscience Of Job LayoffsLosing your job can be both psychologically and financially traumatic, elevating stress, creating depression, and in…
Independent AI researcher Simon Willison, reviewing the feature today on his blog, noted that Anthropic’s advice to “monitor Claude while using the feature” amounts to “unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic’s users.” Anthropic’s mitigations Anthropic is not completely ignoring the problem, however. The company has implemented several security measures for the file creation feature. For Pro and Max users, Anthropic disabled public sharing of conversations that use the file creation feature. For Enterprise users, the company implemented sandbox isolation so that environments are never shared between users. The company also limited task duration and container runtime “to avoid loops of…
Documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that were submitted to the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee—including pages from a birthday book which included contributions from collectors Leon Black and Leslie Wexner—were recently released in full by the panel. A partially redacted version of the leather-bound book compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday was released on September 8, including the lewd drawing from President Donald Trump in the shape of a naked woman, and uploaded online by Axios. The book includes poems, photos, and messages from friends and business associates. It was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell, his former associate who…
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into automated theorem proving has shown immense promise, yet is fundamentally constrained by challenges in scaling up both training-time reinforcement learning (RL) and inference-time compute. This paper introduces \texttt{BFS-Prover-V2}, a system designed to address this dual scaling problem. We present two primary innovations. The first is a novel multi-turn off-policy RL framework for continually improving the performance of LLM step-prover at training time. This framework, inspired by the principles of AlphaZero, utilizes a multi-stage expert iteration pipeline featuring adaptive tactic-level data filtering and periodic retraining to surmount the performance plateaus that typically curtail…
French artificial intelligence leader Mistral AI today announced it has raised €1.7 billion, about $2 billion, in a Series C funding round led by Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML Holding NV. The round more than doubles Mistral’s $6 billion valuation, which it achieved during a $640 million round led by General Catalyst last year, to around $13.7 billion. Nvidia Corp., DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance, General Catalyst, Index Ventures and Lightspeed also participated in the round. Mistral AI is one of the most prominent European AI developers with advanced multilingual large language models and is considered a rival to United…
The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI, and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet. An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that researchers say rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek in standard benchmark tests. “With just 32 billion parameters, it outperforms flagship reasoning models that are 20x larger,” the lab wrote in a press release on Tuesday. DeepSeek’s R1 has 671 billion parameters, though only 37 billion are active. Meta’s latest Llama 4 models range from 17 billion…
Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s AI in Office 365 apps, The Information reports, citing two sources. The move means that Anthropic’s tech will help power new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint alongside OpenAI’s, marking the end of Microsoft’s previous reliance solely on the ChatGPT-maker for its productivity suite. Microsoft’s move to diversify its AI partnerships comes amid a growing rift with OpenAI, which has pursued its own infrastructure projects as well as a and a potential LinkedIn competitor. Microsoft’s Anthropic deal also comes as the company negotiates a new deal with OpenAI to secure access to its…
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019.Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle’s cloud chief Thomas Kurian on Tuesday explained how the tech giant is already monetizing its various artificial intelligence services to generate revenue. “We’ve made billions using AI already,” said Kurian, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference in San Francisco. Kurian said that Google Cloud’s backlog of customer demand is growing faster than its revenue.”Our backlog is now at $106 billion — it is growing faster than our revenue,” he said. “More than 50%…