…in detail but indicated that concerns extended beyond Fairford. "Do not draw inferences about any other specific incident when I say Fairford is not unique in the UK," he said. He said MI5's Iran-linked operations had resulted in more than 50 arrests in Britain over the past 12 months.Russia, meanwhile, "remains aggres…

AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Just five months ago, the startup announced that it had raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. And that round was just nine months after raising a $15…

…which relentlessly arbitrage the price of chips against the cost of GPU time or inference tokens, Carlsten will be aiming at more carefully managed deployments. The ideal Smartbird customers need direct control over the servers running their models - typically for political or business-model reasons - and value data so…