Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.

This week, two Thinking Machines Lab co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, left the startup to rejoin OpenAI. And more defections are reportedly on the way.

OpenAI overlord Sam Altman is facing shocking allegations that he played a role in the death of a whistleblowing employee — and sexually abused his own sister! The tech wunderkind, 40, is the target of a relentless campaign by the grieving mother of former employee Suchir Balaji,

OpenAI leads a major seed round in Sam Altman’s Merge Labs to develop advanced, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces with AI integration.

Sequoia Capital is set to join Coatue and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC in a blockbuster, multibillion-dollar round in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC, as part of a funding deal that’s sure to raise eyebrows among Silicon Valley investors.

Merge Labs is a “research lab” dedicated to “bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability.” OpenAI wrote the largest check in Merge Labs' $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation.

OpenAI has poached three founding members from Thinking Machines Lab—the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati—in what appears to be a calcu.

AI is already remaking filmmaking. One director's experience with a deepfaked Sam Altman shows how strange it can get.