Broad and MIT describe repeatable live-cell transcriptome method
Researchers at the Broad Institute and MIT described a live-cell transcriptomic method that lets engineered mammalian cells package cellular RNA into virus-like particles released into surrounding culture medium. Sampling and sequ...
Mundo raises $20 million Series A for multimodal AI data work
Vancouver startup Mundo has raised a $20 million Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures, following an earlier unannounced $4 million seed round. The company says it is building datasets and evaluation frameworks for multimodal AI sys...
Index reportedly withdrew planned investment in Town over conflict concerns
Upstarts Media reported that Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant company Town after Instinct, another Index-backed company, raised a potential conflict-of-interest concern. The report describes Town as raising $...
OpenAI begins gated rollout of GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI is releasing GPT-6 Astra, according to VentureBeat, beginning Thursday through its gated Daybreak program for enterprise customers. The company says the model will subsequently reach ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterpri...
OpenAI commits $1 billion to subsidized access for essential services
OpenAI has committed $1 billion to an initiative intended to protect essential services worldwide, according to an Axios summary. The commitment will take the form of expanded subsidized access to its models, training, technical s...
ARC-AGI reports GPT-6 Astra results under two test harnesses
ARC Prize reported that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private under its Standard harness and 99.9% under a Provider Adapter harness that preserves opaque reasoning state between requests. The organization sa...
