AI & Robotics

Grid software unicorn Emerald AI has formed a coalition with Google and Nvidia that will use the startup’s technology to secure space on the grid for more data centers. The AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) hopes to make demand response – a paradigm in which data centers temporarily reduce their electricity use – an integral part of data center development. Pausing noncritical…

Last weekend, after one of his researchers resigned over fears that AI could lead to human extinction, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote about the need for outside organizations “to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes.” Executives at OpenAI, Google, and…

A day after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job over concerns that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade, I met with founders and brothers-in-law Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani. They think they have a solution that could save us all, or at least help prevent AI agents from going rogue inside enterprises. “AI is getting smarter at an increasingly rapid rate. The surprising…

Superhuman is joining the cadre of productivity platforms launching notetakers – but rather than building one internally, it is acquiring Y Combinator-backed Fathom. AI-powered productivity platforms aim to automate work. Typically, that automation is triggered when a user types prompts and creates workflows. It would be even better, however, if AI could proactively start work, and for that…