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Source: a16z has secured thousands of AI chips, including Nvidia H100 GPUs, and is renting them to portfolio companies, with the aim of expanding to 20K+ GPUs — Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most active venture capital investors in generative artificial intelligence …
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Spotify adds the ability for users to leave comments on podcasts, expanding on polls and Q&As; comments will be private by default, and creators can opt out — The company already lets Spotify podcasters offer polls and Q&As, so this new feature could give creators new ways to interact with their audiences.| TIME: |
Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announce Thrive AI Health, a new startup backed by OpenAI and Thrive Global to build a “hyper-personalized AI health coach” — A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease—and 90% of our $4.1 trillion …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google begins rolling out speedometers in Google Maps for iOS and CarPlay globally, more than five years after adding the features to the Android app — Google Maps has introduced speedometer and speed limits on iOS and CarPlay — more than five years after their debut on Android …
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Skild AI, which is developing a foundational model for robotics, raised a $300M Series A at a $1.5B valuation led by Lightspeed, SoftBank, Coatue, Jeff Bezos — Skild AI has raised $300 million to continue building its plug-and-play robotic intelligence with the hope of enabling companies to integrate it into robots of all kinds.
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Current and former Tesla staff: self-driving data annotation staff were told to prioritize analyzing car data of VIP drivers, like Elon Musk and YouTube stars — An curved arrow pointing right. — Tesla gives special treatment to data from VIPs, including Elon Musk, when training its self-driving AI.
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| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
The FTC bans teen messaging app NGL from serving users under 18, a first; NGL agreed to pay $5M and stop marketing to kids and teens to settle the FTC's lawsuit — The groundbreaking FTC settlement stems from claims popular app NGL overhyped its anti-bullying efforts and engaged in aggressive marketing to kids and teens.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman says Etsy is positioning itself “to answer the call for original goods and real people” by overhauling its policies and adding labels — When Etsy launched almost two decades ago, the site attracted artisans and craft makers, who finally had a place online …
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: xAI ends talks with Oracle to expand an existing arrangement to rent Nvidia chips; source: Oracle is not part of xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis — Larry Ellison may be a friend and backer of Elon Musk, but even the Oracle executive chair isn't immune from Musk's impatience.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to remove more Facebook and Instagram posts that attack “Zionism” or threaten “Zionists” when the term is used to represent Jewish people or Israelis — Company will pull down ‘Zionism’ posts when used generally to threaten Jewish people
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| Bloomberg: |
A group of investors led by Vista Equity Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Nasuni, valuing the hybrid cloud storage provider at ~$1.2B — - Majority stake transaction values Nasuni at about $1.2 billion … The deal values Nasuni at about $1.2 billion … | Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
UiPath says it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or ~420 people, after lowering its full year revenue expectations by $100M last month; PATH drops 6%+ — UiPath, which sells software for automating payroll and other workplace processes, said on Tuesday that it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 420 people.
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