​Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy’s updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.  

​This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.  

​Petlibro’s new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.  

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​Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.  

​Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.  

​In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.  

​UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.  

​AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.  

​“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs,” a GovAI research scholar warns.