Midha says R1 won't stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain.
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MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the worldβs largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised Peopleβs Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says [β¦]
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Some companies are blocking DeepSeek over concerns their data will end up with the Chinese government.
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People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management and the Treasury Department. The Washington Post reported Friday that the highest-ranking career official at Treasury is leaving the department after βa clashβ with people working for Muskβs so-called Department of [β¦]
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When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, she indicated that she was tagging the word βPartnersβ to the firmβs name because she would eventually bring on other GPs. Now, more than two years later, Guo is being joined by Mike Vernal, who was a partner at Sequoia [β¦]
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court filings. In response, lawyers for the plaintiff β the Authors Guild β have filed a motion to compel testimony from Amodei and his Anthropic co-founder, Benjamin Mann. Authors Guildβs lawyers claim that Amodei and Mann, [β¦]
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has hit U.K.-based remittance company Wise with about a $2 million fine for what it described as βa series of illegal actions.β Those actions include advertising inaccurate fees and failing to properly disclose exchange rates and other costs, the CFPB alleges. Specifically, the agency claims that the fintech company [β¦]
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Apple has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over battery swelling on the Apple Watch. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2019, the suit alleges that the problem affected the first four Apple Watch models. Battery swelling is pretty much what it sounds like: [β¦]
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The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the companyβs ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers.
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Five years ago, SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest revenue driver, expanding to more than 100 countries. But as Starlink scaled, it faced a major hurdle: accepting payments in developing markets, where traditional banking infrastructure is unreliable, slow, and prone to blocking transactions. Many local banks across Africa, Latin America, and [β¦]
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Investor, former GitHub CEO, and all-around Tech Guyβ’ Nat Friedman has posted a strangely enticing offer on X. His post reads, βNeed volunteers to come to my office in Palo Alto today to construct a 5000 piece Lego set. Will provide pizza. Have to sign NDA. Please DM.β Thanks to the investigative reporting of my [β¦]
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The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage in a New York City art gallery turned theater for the night. Wine and water flowed through the intimate space as the house β packed with media β sat to witness the premiere of βDoomers,β Matthew Gasdaβs latest play [β¦]
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OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI "reasoning" model, o3-mini, the latest in the company's o1 family of reasoning models.
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What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if youβre the Swiss canton (βstateβ) of Basel-Stadt, you buy the domain that contains the typo, and create a redirect to the correct URL. As Swiss news [β¦]
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Microsoft says that itβs creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division that will help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI the company hopes to build. Microsoft AI, which encompasses Microsoftβs Copilot, Bing, and Edge products, is becoming core to Microsoftβs growth strategy [β¦]
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A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investorsβ attention. In addition to offering tools to easily build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds, Graze will soon allow feed creators to monetize their efforts with advertising, sponsored posts, and subscriptions. In other words, Graze has [β¦]
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Last year wind and solar energy overtook fossil fuels to provide 30% of the EUβs electricity. With that in the background, startups in the solar space have been riding a generational change in how we get our power. In 2022 we covered how a small B2C European startup planned to bring solar to homes via [β¦]
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Perplexity, the venture-backed startup building AI-powered search products, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another companyβs trademark. In a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a company called Perplexity Solved Solutions accuse Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by using the [β¦]
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Hackers are increasingly abusing bugs in popular enterprise software to target big companies in mass-hacking campaigns
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Stress isnβt just bad for you β itβs also bad for your employer. Factoring in absenteeism, diminished productivity, turnover, medical costs, and accidents, the nonprofit American Institute of Stress estimates that workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually. One way to measure stress is by monitoring cortisol levels. Even influencers know this, with [β¦]
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