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Simon Willison praises Anthropic's new detailed documentation on sandboxing techniques for Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The post covers process sandboxes, VMs, filesystem boundaries, and egress controls across platforms like gVisor, Seatbelt, Bubblewrap, and Virtualization frameworks. It also notes a past missed exfiltration vector and suggests the SRT tool is now mature enough to try.
Former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers have started Recursive Superintelligence with over $650 million in funding and a $4 billion valuation. The six-month-old firm aims to create AI that improves itself. Backed by investors like GV, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD, it joins efforts to automate AI development amid recent advances in code-writing AI systems.
AI startup Recursive has left stealth mode with $650 million in funding to pursue self-improving AI systems. The company sees recursive self-improvement as the quickest way to superintelligence and plans to automate the scientific method starting with AI research. Backed by GV, Greycroft, AMD Ventures, and Nvidia, Recursive is led by experts from Salesforce, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, and Uber AI.
Bret Taylor's AI startup Sierra announced a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, resulting in a post-money valuation above $15 billion. The company now has more than $1 billion in capital to pursue its goal of setting the global standard for AI-powered customer experiences. Sierra reports rapid growth, serving over 40% of the Fortune 50, with agents handling billions of interactions, and ARR jumping from $100 million to $150 million in months.
A new AI startup called Recursive Superintelligence has secured at least $500 million in funding just four months after its founding. The round values the company at $4 billion pre-money and was led by GV with Nvidia participating. The firm aims to create self-improving AI systems.