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OpenAI Group PBC Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown in an essay published on Sunday, after other prominent industry figures have expressed similar views in recent months. Pachocki argues that leading AI labs should voluntarily pace their model development efforts. According to the executive, such slowdowns should become “commonplace” until the…

Editor’s note: The following is the second profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interview with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here. Before founding Trunk Tools, an AI startup for the construction industry, Sarah Buchner spent more than a decade working…

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It’s another step toward decoupling apps from models. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s argument is that frontier model vendors (he didn’t mention Anthropic and OpenAI by name) intend to suck the knowledge out of enterprises and destroy the “alpha” companies enjoy through…

DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, including investors, channel partners, customers and fellow industry analysts, Zoom is often grouped into the unified communications-as-a-service or the contact center-as-a-service bucket. Zoom was…