Apollo Global Management, known for leveraged buyouts and hefty financing deals, has started investing in AI and related hardware startups with the ambition to lend money to them in the future.

In one previously unreported deal, Apollo has already invested in the low tens of millions of dollars in Mercor’s latest funding round, which is set to value the data-labeling startup at $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. It has also invested in chip startup SiFive and in Hadrian, which says it’s building AI-powered factories, in transactions the companies disclosed earlier this year. It expects to make more investments in these categories, the people said.

Zipline, a startup making drones that can deliver small packages like meals and medical supplies, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the fundraise.

The funding round, if it closes, would more than double its valuation from its last funding round, which valued the company at $7.6 billion after the investment. It follows a partnership announced last month with Uber to expand delivery by drones across the U.S. and expectations by investors that the costs of drone delivery are falling, expanding what was once a niche market.

OpenAI said Wednesday it is testing allowing some U.S. advertisers to sponsor AI agents working in ChatGPT, a move that would bring ChatGPT ads closer to what Google and Meta Platforms already offer.

ChatGPT users who click an ad can now start a conversation with an AI agent to ask follow-up ...

Stablecoin issuer Circle officially launched Arc blockchain, which will support the trading of stablecoins, tokenized equities, and other assets.

The blockchain will also support perpetuals, lending protocols, and social trading apps, Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, said in a press briefing. ...

Even for technology leaders, it can feel impossible to keep up with constant advances in the field.

This is especially true in the age of AI, with vendors racing to roll out model updates with new capabilities. Even if technology leaders had time to attend every conference and read every tech publication, it would be a full-time job to simply figure out which trends represent real transformation opportunities, and which are merely hype.

With Google Gemini, you can generate a tailored digest that summarizes the developments most likely to have an impact on your specific industry and organization. Armed with this up-to-the-minute information, you can keep your leadership and workforce apprised of market shifts and technology breakthroughs, protect your organization from expensive distractions, and make high-stakes procurement decisions with confidence.

Step 1: Generate Your Tech Forecast

Open up a new chat, and prompt Google Gemini to provide you with a summary of current technology trends. For a more tailored summary, provide as much information as possible about your company and industry. You might, for example, tell Gemini that you’re the CTO at a mid-sized regional commercial and retail bank in the Pacific Northwest, with a mix of legacy on-premises and modernized cloud infrastructure.

Here’s a sample prompt:

I am the CTO of [company] in [industry]. I want to understand emerging technology trends. Summarize the top five emerging technologies with the most significant potential impact on [industry]. For each technology, list its potential benefits and challenges, and suggest how it could impact [company] in the next two to three years.

Gemini will quickly generate a list of technologies, broken down by their potential benefits, challenges, and overall impact. For the regional bank, Gemini might suggest using agentic AI for continuous risk assessment, pointing out the opportunity to proactively surface lending opportunities and flag potential risks.

Step 2: Refine the Output

Gemini’s summary will be based on the information you provided. To generate a more custom tech forecast, add more information about your existing environment and current challenges.

For example: Gemini might suggest deploying API-led middleware to bridge the gap between your legacy core and your modern cloud app; but maybe you already have middleware running, and the problem is that its fragility is leading to downtime. By adding that context, you can help Gemini focus its output on your specific needs.

Go back and forth with Gemini, providing additional context and feedback until the tech trends summary is exactly what you’re looking for.

Step 3: Automate Delivery

If you have to manually enter a new prompt every time you want an update on tech trends, you might not be as consistent as you’d like. Instead, prompt Gemini once to automatically provide you with an update each day, week, or month.

These sorts of prompts work best when they are completely self-contained, rather than the result of a long, messy chat history. So, ask Gemini to look back at your conversation and synthesize all of your real-world feedback into a single master prompt. Then, paste that master prompt into a new chat and explicitly tell Gemini your desired delivery schedule.

Gemini’s Scheduled Actions feature will take over, allowing you to manage or pause the recurring prompt in your account settings.

Step 4: Move from Knowledge to Action

Staying on top of tech trends is only really useful insofar as it spurs action. As you peruse Gemini’s scheduled summaries, consider where digging deeper into specific topics may help you optimize your operations, mitigate emerging risks, or prepare your IT environment for the future. Try this prompt:

Recommend three areas where [my company] can take proactive steps to stay ahead of the curve on [specific areas].

The CTO of the regional bank might, for example, ask Gemini for specific tips on network-based fraud intelligence. In this step, the role of Gemini is shifting slightly, from industry analyst to strategic sounding board. Because Gemini already has detailed information about your organization’s challenges, goals, and existing environment, its insights will be grounded in your specific reality.

By moving from high-level summaries to tactical next steps, you can use your understanding of tech trends to guide your organization’s IT investments in a marketplace that never stops moving.

Anthropic’s call to slow down AI development to keep humans safe has dominated the news cycle and drew similar calls from the leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft and others (and subtle disagreement from Mark Zuckerberg). 

But Mustafa Suleyman, who runs Microsoft’s AI model development, has a warning about Anthropic itself. 

Suleyman, who co-founded DeepMind (now part of Google), says Anthropic’s approach of treating its Claude models as if they were sentient, similar to humans, could produce a dangerous outcome. He called out Anthropic’s Claude Constitution, a document that treats the model as an intelligent entity and offers guidelines for how it should handle ethical dilemmas. Suleyman said that by incorporating the document into its training, Anthropic could make Claude harder to control. 

Suleyman’s concerns emerged when Anthropic updated the constitution at the start of this year to leave room for the possibility that Claude has some sort of “consciousness” or “moral status,” a change from the original document.

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A satellite phased-array transceiver that folds up for launch and unfolds in space has been shown to work successfully in orbit, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. By using an innovative approach to correct nonplanar deformations in the deployable membrane antenna, this work lays the foundation for satellite constellation-based wireless communications in the Beyond 5G and 6G era.

Scientists from Diamond Light Source and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have contributed to the development of the world's first open-access battery imaging library. The library was created through an international collaboration led by Dr. Antony Vamvakeros, Royal Society Industry Fellow at Imperial College London and research and development lead at Finden Ltd., which is co-located with both facilities on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

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Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia, people familiar with the project said, as the Mac maker looks to capitalize on surging interest in its computers for AI.

Apple has been developing the server with plans to sell it to AI developers, other businesses and governments, the people said. The product under consideration would come in two versions—a smaller one with two of Apple’s planned M8 Ultra chips clustered together and a bigger one with four M8 Ultra chips. The M-series Ultra chips are Apple’s highest-performance chips and power products including the Mac Studio.