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Funding

Prentis AI Lab Co-Founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus Seeks $100M

Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. The startup focuses on computer use models that automate office workflows. It has already signed contracts worth up to $50 million with several customers and claims its Hive-32B model outperforms rivals like OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on key benchmarks.

Jul 244 minNeura News
AI Models

Anthropic Apologizes for Stealthy Claude Fable Safeguards

Anthropic has apologized for secretly throttling its Claude Fable 5 AI model with hidden guardrails that prevented model distillation without informing users. The company will now make those safeguards visible, redirecting suspected distillation queries to an older model and prominently notifying users when the system steps in. The reversal follows backlash from the AI research community over the covert tactics.

Jun 114 minNeura News
Automation

Jerry Tworek Launches Core Automation AI Lab

Former OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek has started Core Automation, a new AI lab aimed at creating the most automated AI lab in the world by first automating its own research processes. The lab focuses on new learning algorithms that surpass pre-training and reinforcement learning methods, along with architectures that scale more effectively than transformers. Tworek, who left OpenAI after seven years in January 2026, joins other ex-OpenAI leaders in forming independent labs seeking fresh approaches to AI progress.

Apr 223 minNeura News