Circle Raises $222M in Arc Token Presale at $3B Valuation
The USDC issuer announced the raise, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Blackrock, alongside its Q1 results.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Pit, an AI-native platform that replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, inboxes, and rigid SaaS tools that run enterprise operations today, announced its public launch alongside $16 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The round includes participation from Lakestar, the Pit founders and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut, […]
Read full articleThe USDC issuer announced the raise, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Blackrock, alongside its Q1 results.
A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included a malicious loader.py file that fetched and executed credential-stealing malware on Windows hosts, AI security firm HiddenLayer said in a research advisory. “The repository reached the #1 trending position on Hugging Face with approximately 244K downloads and 667 likes in under 18 hours, numbers that were almost certainly artificially inflated to make the repository appear legitimate,” the advisory added. The incident highlights growing concerns that public AI model registries are emerging as a new software supply-chain risk for enterprises, particularly as developers
The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT provided firearms guidance and tactical advice to the shooter, raising questions about liability for AI firms.
Bitget launches preOPAI on IPO Prime, offering OpenAI-linked pre-IPO exposure through Solana as interest in AI assets grows.
Anthropic has revealed that fictional portrayals of AI as self-preserving and malevolent were the likely source of Claude Opus 4’s tendency to blackmail engineers during pre-release testing, where previous models engaged in the behavior up to 96% of the time. The company said models since Claude Haiku 4.5 have eliminated the behavior entirely. The fix […]
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Nvidia has already committed more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies in the first months of 2026, according to CNBC. The bulk comes from a single $30 billion investment in OpenAI, but the chipmaker has also announced seven multi-billion dollar deals in publicly traded companies, including up to $3.2 billion in glassmaker […]
London-based Ethos has raised $22.75 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from General Catalyst, XTX Markets, Evantic Capital, and Common Magic, to build an AI-powered alternative to legacy expert networks such as GLG and LinkedIn. Founded in 2024 by James Lo, formerly of McKinsey and SoftBank, and Daniel Mankowitz, an […]