Reuters

Factorial Energy Inc

Stellantis holds 9.5% stake in solid state battery startup Factorial, filing shows Automaker Stellantis holds a 9.5% stake in U.S. solid-state battery startup Factorial Energy and might ‌buy further ...
World Politics Review

The Problem With ‘AI Arms Control’

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Just Auto

Factorial Energy goes public at $1.3bn valuation after SPAC merger

Founded in the greater Boston area, Factorial develops solid-state batteries. Credit: Noah Emad / Shutterstock.com US solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy has begun trading on the Nasdaq ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...
Scientific American

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...
The Next Web

Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

Anthropic reveals that Claude now writes over 80% of its production code, with engineers shipping 8x more code per quarter than in 2024. The company’s new Anthropic Institute paper maps the path to ...
The Verge

Anthropic made a statement about recursive self-improvement, a big AI industry talking point (and concern).

RSI is also defined as an “AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor,” per Anthropic’s blog post. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Wall Street Journal

Spain’s AI Business-Software Group Factorial Hits $2.5 Billion Valuation

BARCELONA—Factorial closed a $150 million funding round that lifted its valuation to $2.5 billion, bringing in fresh capital to expand as artificial intelligence reshapes the business-management ...
The Boston Globe

Former Mercedes chairman joins Factorial board as Billerica battery firm goes public

As Billerica battery company Factorial cruises into the public markets this week, it will have a veteran driver at its side: “Dr. Z.” Dieter Zetsche, one of the best-known executives in the car ...
The Conversation

An AI solution to an 80‑year‑old problem has shocked mathematicians

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...
The Motley Fool

Recursion Pharmaceuticals Just Hit a 52-Week Low. Is This Former Nvidia Holding a Smart Buy Now?

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is trying to solve a serious problem. Even with technological improvements, the time and costs required to develop brand-new drugs have increased in recent decades. It can ...