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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies” — Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla's chip deals, and diverted “12K of shipped H100 GPUs” from Tesla to X — Elon Musk claims he can grow Tesla into “a leader in AI & robotics,” an ambition that he's said will require a lot …
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebs like CNN, Sony, and Paris Hilton, are being hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM — The compromised accounts include CNN and Paris Hilton — and all users have to do to be hacked is open a DM.
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| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
AT&T says an outage is preventing many customers from completing calls between carriers, but 911 calls are going through; Verizon customers also report issues — A nationwide AT&T outage is once again leaving some customers in the dark on Tuesday. — In a statement sent to CNN …
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| Reuters: |
TSMC Chair C.C. Wei says the company has talked with customers about moving its plants off Taiwan as China tensions mount, but such a move would be impossible — Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW), whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's most trusted advisers, is leaving the company — X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man and head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the matter.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says it will acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and more, for over $1B — Data analytics software maker Databricks said in a statement on Tuesday that it's acquiring Tabular, a startup that helps optimize data stored in the cloud.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Avail, a modular blockchain project building “rollup-centric infrastructure”, raised a $43M Series A, after raising a $27M seed in February 2024 — - Avail has raised $43 million in a Series A round — bringing its total funding to $75 million.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cisco introduces new AI products and services, including its Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters in partnership with Nvidia, and announces a $1B AI investment fund — Cisco Systems Inc. is doubling down on its artificial intelligence push with a host of new AI-powered products and services, plus various other initiatives focused on AI.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
How billionaire investors of the internet era are fighting to determine whether AI's future will be one of concentrated safety, or of unfettered advancement — Billionaire investors of the internet era are now locked in a war of words and influence to determine whether AI's future …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Pika, which offers AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $80M from Spark, Lightspeed, and others at a $470M valuation, taking its total funding to $135M — Pika, a video-generation start-up that raised $80 million in its latest funding round, already has a publicly available product, as OpenAI and Google keep theirs under wraps
More: Business Insider
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Source: Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450M from Nvidia, Salesforce, Cisco, and others and is looking to raise more in the same round at a $5B valuation — Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Salesforce Ventures … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China — Apple was in talks last year to launch its Apple TV+ video streaming service in China via a deal with China Mobile …
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| Sourasis Bose / Reuters: |
Apollo Global agrees to buy 49% equity interest for $11B in a joint venture related to Intel's Fab 34 under construction in Leixlip, Ireland — Apollo Global Management's (APO.N) affiliates will provide $11 billion to Intel (INTC.O) to buy 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta rolls out an update to “significantly” reduce the Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, an experimental wrist-mounted menu button option, and more — The Quest v66 update “significantly” reduces Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, according to Meta.
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; IRS had said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised it to $24B — - FTX argued in bankruptcy court that it owes significantly less than the IRS claimed. — FTX is not responsible …
More: The Crypto Times, crypto.news, CoinGape, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and CryptoSlate
| Emilia Terzon / ABC: |
Australia's privacy regulator sues Medibank over an October 2022 data breach, accusing the health insurer of failing to protect the data of 9.7M customers — Health insurance giant Medibank is facing a maximum fine theoretically in the trillions of dollars after the Australian Information …
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| Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land: |
BrightEdge: Google's AI Overviews now shows in less than 15% of search queries but on 63% of health care-related queries, more than any other industry category — Google's AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time, according to a new analysis. — Google's AI Overviews …
More: ZDNet, Wired, Android Authority, Search Engine Journal, and BrightEdge. LinkedIn: Danny Goodwin
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $921M, vs. $905M est., forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, lifts its FY 2025 outlook; CRWD jumps 6%+ after hours — Cybersecurity company boosts its forecast — Better-than-expected results from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. initially met a shrug … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70 — As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.
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Mastodon: @chikim@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Senthil Nayagam and Gordon Hollingworth. Forums: r/raspberry_pi
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GetWhy, a market research AI company that was founded in 2011 as UserTribe and extracts insights from video interviews, raised a $34.5M Series A — GetWhy, a consumer research tech company that helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI … Sponsor Posts
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