Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI, Meta, and Google have to offer. DeepSeek claims to have built its models highly efficiently and quickly, and is providing these models at a fraction of the price American [β¦]
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ElevenLabs, one of the more popular startups working in the field AI audio, said Thursday that it has raised a Series C round of $180 million, valuing the company at $3.3 billion post-money. a16z and ICONIQ Growth are co-leading investment. Rumors of the fundraise were first reported by TechCrunch. The final numbers confirm some but [β¦]
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Metaβs newer social network Threads announced on Thursday that itβs introducing a dedicated βmediaβ tab for both photos and videos, only days after its rivals, including X (formerly Twitter) and the startup Bluesky, did the same for videos. In addition, Meta will also now allow users to tag people in the photos they share. Instagram [β¦]
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a βreturn to OG Facebookβ as part of his key goals for 2025 in Wednesdayβs Q4 earnings call with investors. While the company was short on details as to what specific changes lay in store, itβs clear that Meta is in desperate need of younger Facebook users to sustain itself [β¦]
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The data center market is booming, driven by AI demand. Just last week, OpenAI said that it plans to team up with backers including SoftBank to spend at least $100 billion on data center infrastructure in the U.S. Microsoft aims to put around $80 billion toward AI infrastructure this year, and rival tech giants have [β¦]
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Talk to many architects, and theyβll likely tell you that Autodeskβs software, including AutoCAD and Revit, has been indispensable to their work for decades. But despite their widespread use, Autodeskβs former co-CEO and chief product officer Amar Hanspal says that the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is using 20th century tools to design 21st [β¦]
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Authorities said the two forums β Cracked and Nulled β had more than 10 million users.
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Amazon is the latest company to announce a price hike for its music streaming subscriptions. The company revealed this week that the price of an Amazon Music Unlimited Individual plan for Prime members is going from $9.99 per month to $10.99. As for subscribers without a Prime membership, the price of their subscription is going [β¦]
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OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories, the Department of Energyβs network of R&D labs, use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects. Per CNBC, OpenAI will work with Microsoft, its lead investor, to deploy a model onΒ the supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The model will be a [β¦]
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Web-based party games are making a comeback, now with the infusion of generative AI. Among the startups joining the trend, the current forecast looks good for one startup, Little Umbrella, which leverages AI for its social party games.Β The company announced on Thursday its $2 million seed funding round. Little Umbrella plans to use the [β¦]
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At an event in New York City on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled two additions to the Surface line of PCs. The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop both arrive with Copilot+ PC certification. Announced in May 2024, the program aims to identify business-focused devices that are designed specifically for the companyβs AI platform, Copilot. Itβs a [β¦]
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Google Maps is planning to comply with President Donald Trumpβs executive order to rename several American landmarks, including the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. However, Mexican President Claudia SheinbaumΒ said in a press conferenceΒ on Wednesday that Mexico will send a letter to Google questioning its choice to update the body of waterβs name. [β¦]
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In the U.S., AI-generated creations β books, movies, and so forthβ that have been edited by a human can likely be copyrighted, but those without any human modifications or additions cannot. Thatβs according to a report published by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) on Wednesday, which outlined scenarios in which AI-generated content might be eligible [β¦]
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Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures. This is the third startup by Maor Goldberg, the companyβs co-founder and CEO. He previously co-founded Whitebox Security, which he sold to SailPoint in 2015, as [β¦]
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The newest generation of startups aiming to solve cross-border payments are focusing on stablecoins β cryptocurrency coins often pegged to actual currencies or other commodities to help them keep stable prices β to build solutions that work faster and often cheaper than classic financial rails. This trend is also driving a surge in investor interest [β¦]
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Savant Labs launched its automation platform for data analysts in 2023. The company, which competes with the likes of Alteryx, on Thursday said it had raised $18.5 million in a Series A round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Unlike some other low-code/no-code tools, Savantβs focus is squarely on business analysts. Analysts, its CEO and founder [β¦]
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Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-beating model called Tulu3-405B.
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The internal DeepSeek database was exposed to the internet without a password.
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Jared Zhao originally got interested in data analytics during his time at UC Berkeley because he was drawn to how it could turn raw data into a story. Zhao founded his first data analytics startup Polyture in 2021. But advancements in generative AI just a year later made Zhao realize what Polyture was building was [β¦]
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New York Blood Center said it does not have a "specific timetable for system restoration" following the attack, which has led to canceled appointments and delays
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