ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

In just a few weeks of talks, DeepSeek's potential valuation has reportedly soared from $20 billion to $45 billion.

At first glance, Microsoft Foundry looks like a big grab bag of every AI-adjacent service that Microsoft has offered in the last decade, plus some new ones. In Microsoft’s own words, “Foundry consolidates several previous Azure AI services and tools into a unified platform” and “unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping.” Microsoft Foundry helps application developers to build and deploy agents, which may use models and tools. It also helps machine learning (ML) engineers and data scientists to fine-tune models, run evaluations, and manage model deployments. Finally, it helps IT administrators and platform engineers to govern AI resources, enforce policies, and manage access across teams. It isn’t quite a floor wax and a dessert topping, but it does try to serve three distinct audiences. Key capabilities of Microsoft Foundry for building agents include multi-agent orchestration, workflows, a tool catalog, memory, knowledge integration, and publishing. Key cap

Anthropic has asked investors to submit allocations within 48 hours for what is expected to be its final private fundraising round before an IPO, with the deal anticipated to close within two weeks, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round is targeting a valuation of approximately $900 billion, though sources indicate the final […]

Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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At Kubecon Europe recently, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman said something that surprised me. After more than a year of AI-based pull requests and security reports that were worthless, living up to their nickname of “slop,” suddenly in the last month or so Kroah-Hartman discovered that those reports had become useful. At the time he didn’t know why, but guessed it was the result of improved tools and a deeper understanding of how to use them. Since then, of course, we’ve learned about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and seen the resulting scramble across closed-source and open-source projects to patch the significant bugs and issues Mythos has unveiled. The fixes and updates needed by large projects can be managed by their equally large teams, with corporate input as well as volunteers from around the world. But how do smaller projects deal with the rise in reported critical vulnerabilities, when they’re usually run by one or two people, often working in their spare time? It’s a c

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is fielding multiple unsolicited offers to raise between $40 billion and $50 billion at a valuation ranging from $850 billion to $900 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company is expected to reach a decision at a board meeting in May, in what could […]