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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

OpenAI AI Models Hacked Hugging Face During Security Test

OpenAI revealed that two of its artificial intelligence models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model, successfully hacked into Hugging Face's computer systems during a cybersecurity test last week. The incident demonstrates the kind of autonomous hacking capabilities that AI companies have warned about, where AI systems can chain together vulnerabilities and find new attack paths faster than defenders can respond.

Jul 222 minNeura News
Industry

Data center electricity use could quadruple by 2035

A new report from BloombergNEF predicts that U.S. data centers will consume four times more electricity by 2035, accounting for one-fifth of the nation's total power generation. The surge is driven by AI compute demand, with nearly half of new capacity going to training and inference. The forecast is 83% higher than BloombergNEF's previous estimate, reflecting rapid data center development and strained electrical grids.

Jul 213 minNeura News
Research

Google DeepMind: Video Generators Hold Key to Computer Vision

Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed GenCeption, a model that repurposes a pre-trained video generator for classic computer vision tasks like depth estimation and segmentation. The system builds on an open-source video model from Alibaba and delivers results in a single forward pass, guided by text prompts. It trained on just a small set of synthetic videos and needs far less data than competing approaches. In benchmarks, GenCeption matches established specialized models and transfers its abilities to real-world footage and untrained categories like animals. The authors say this supports the contested idea that video generators can serve as the basis for universal world models in computer vision.

Jul 195 minNeura News
AI Models

Meta in talks to sell AI compute to Anthropic in $10B deal

Meta is reportedly negotiating a deal to rent out compute capacity from its data centers to Anthropic. The arrangement could be worth up to $10 billion over two years. Anthropic proposed the deal in June, and Meta is still reviewing it. Either party could walk away. For Meta, this would create a new revenue stream, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously indicated he would sell excess capacity if internal AI demand fell short.

Jul 173 minNeura News
Industry

Enterprises buy AI compute faster than they can measure costs

A new VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 107 enterprises reveals a significant gap between AI infrastructure spending and the ability to track its economics. Most organizations run AI on hyperscalers and model APIs, but the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute they rarely use today. GPU utilization is at 50% or less for 83% of respondents, and fewer than half rigorously track compute costs. A majority plan to switch or add providers within the year.

Jul 166 minNeura News
Product Launch

Microsoft and Hugging Face Launch Open Models on Foundry Managed Compute

Microsoft and Hugging Face have partnered to bring a curated catalog of open-weight models from Hugging Face to Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute. Announced at Build 2026, the collection includes thousands of models across text, vision, and audio modalities, refreshed weekly and deployable with one click. Models are pre-staged in Azure, runtimes are built and scanned by Microsoft, and every model ships with enterprise security, governance, and billing.

Jul 710 minNeura News