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| Welcome back to The Prompt, Some tech leaders are finally speaking up against the violent methods used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal agents after an agent shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told employees in an internal Slack message that he thought that ICE was "going too far." "There is a big difference between deporting violent criminals and what's happening now, and we need to get the distinction right," he wrote. Calling President Donald Trump a "strong leader," he urged Trump to "unite the country" and carry out a transparent investigation. Prominent figures across the AI industry like Yann LeCun, Jeff Dean, Vinod Khosla and Reid Hoffman are part of a growing chorus of Silicon Valley heavyweights who expressed outrage about the fatal shootings. LeCun called the agents "M U R D E R E R S," on X. In sharing a lengthy essay on AI risks on X, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei noted, "given the horror we're seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis on the importance of preserving democratic values and rights at home is particularly relevant." Several OpenAI, Google Deepmind and Anthropic researchers also condemned ICE's actions on social media. But some of the most powerful names in the tech world have been suspiciously silent, after a group of tech CEOs including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and AMD's Lisa Su attended a private screening of First Lady Melania Trump's documentary in the White House. Before we get into the headlines, a quick reminder that nominations are now open for the Forbes AI 50. The eighth annual list, with sponsoring partner Mayfield, will recognize the most promising startups deploying artificial intelligence to solve unique problems across different industries. The list is produced in collaboration with Sequoia and Meritech. |
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| Nvidia is investing an additional $2 billion in AI cloud computing firm CoreWeave, doubling down on its long-standing (and sometimes incestuous) relationship with the company. As per the new deal, CoreWeave will be able to use Nvidia's products before they're available to other vendors, including a new central processing unit (CPU) and its storage systems. CoreWeave's stock jumped 12% after the announcement. The chip giant has agreed to buy unsold capacity from CoreWeave through 2032. (Read Forbes' profile of CoreWeave's billionaire cofounders here.) |
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| AI behemoth Anthropic downloaded a bulk of pirated fiction and nonfiction books from online shadow libraries and scanned them to train its AI models, according to documents unsealed in legal filings last week, The Washington Post reported. The company also carried out a sprawling effort, codenamed Project Panama, to buy and scan millions of physical copies of used books to accumulate troves of training data. The documents are part of a landmark copyright lawsuit that Anthropic settled out of court in August, shelling out $1.5 billion to pay the authors of some 500,000 books that it had illegally downloaded to train its models (Anthropic did not admit wrongdoing). |
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| Anthropic's marquee coding software, Claude Code, has had a major viral moment as developers and non-coders took the AI tool for a spin, testing it to build websites, games and programs. Some used it for projects not related to software at all: one person used it to scan, label and organize 60,000 of their deceased grandmother's files, and another to recover wedding photos from a corrupted hard drive. Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke said Claude helped him analyze his annual MRI scan. The AI tool has contributed to Anthropic's surging revenue: the company's run rate crossed $9 billion at the end of 2025, Bloomberg reported. |
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| London-based AI video generation startup Synthesia announced it raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation. The Series E round was led by Google Ventures. Forbes first reported details of the deal in October. |
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 | | Krishna Gade is the CEO and founder of Fiddler, an AI startup that helps enterprises monitor and manage their AI agents. Fiddler |
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| Trying to understand why an AI system responds a certain way or makes a specific choice is an incredibly hard problem that researchers have been struggling with for years. But as more enterprises use AI agents for any number of tasks, it's no longer just an academic question, said Krishna Gade, CEO of AI startup Fiddler. That's why he started Fiddler. To actually use AI agents, companies need to be able to observe and control how they behave, what data they pull from and which tools they can access. The startup helps enterprises inspect and manage dozens of AI agents working across functions like customer service or HR. "We are on the pursuit of the holy grail...being able to answer as many questions as possible around AI so that you build trust with it," Gade said. One key technique Fiddler uses is to tweak the input or the prompt and see how that influences the results produced by the AI. Its software also measures how many incorrect responses the AI gives, and how well the AI responds to prompt injection attacks, where the model is fed prompts that are designed to trick it to ignore its safety guardrails. The startup has also trained its own small large language models to help detect things like harmful content, bias and compliance. "Think about it like a CIA interrogator interviewing a criminal or where you're probing questions and trying to figure out the information," Gade said. Fiddler announced Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in funding from RPS Ventures with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital and others. The startup is valued at $235 million, according to a person familiar with the round. Gade founded Fiddler in 2018 before generative AI exploded into the mainstream. Even then, the company's focus was what it calls "model observability"— explaining why an AI system came to a particular conclusion— and it targeted regulated industries like healthcare and banking. Today the startup is working with customers like Nielsen, the U.S. Navy and American Family Insurance. Gade has been chipping away at the AI explainability problem since the start of his career. A former Facebook engineer, he built a feature called "Why am I seeing this," which explained to users why their newsfeed included certain posts. At Fiddler, his goal is to create a simple interface that can monitor and control disparate AI models and products. "AI is this next big software artifact that is going to go into the enterprise, and we want to be the trust layer." |
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| Clawdbot, a personal AI assistant that has exploded in popularity in recent weeks. Power users have flooded social media with photos of Mac minis that are used to run the AI tool, which can help with personal tasks like managing calendars, sending emails and monitoring bank accounts. It's gone so viral that Anthropic asked the company to change the name of its software, which sounds suspiciously like its flagship Claude chatbot. Peter Steinberg, the creator behind the tool, quickly renamed it Moltbot. |
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