xAI raised a $6B Series B from Valor, Vy Capital, a16z, Sequoia, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, and others, Elon Musk says at a pre-money valuation of $18B
xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion. — xAI is pleased to announce...
A closer look at Apple's AI strategy: Project Greymatter, local and cloud LLM data processing, Siri, sealing a chatbot partnership deal with OpenAI, and more
Though Apple's first set of modern AI features won't be as impressive as rival offerings, the company is betting that its massive customer base can give it an edge.
LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human …
Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on the state of Hollywood, shifting US tastes, programming strategy, ads, corporate activism, YouTube, live events, AI, and more
Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times — If you're anything like me, you probably spent some large portion of this week sitting on your couch watching Netflix.
Researchers find that GPT-4 can outperform human analysts in predicting the direction of future corporate earnings even when given only financial statements
Researchers from the University of Chicago have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can conduct financial statement analysis …
China set up a new ~$47.5B state-backed investment fund on May 24 as the third and largest phase of its Big Fund to boost the country's semiconductor industry
China has set up a new state-backed investment fund with registered capital of 344 billion yuan ($47.5 billion) to boost the country's semiconductor industry.
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman
makers of the AR-15 The suit alleges the companies partnered to market the weapon to underage boys on social media and in #CallOfDuty They also say COD is “the most prolific and [image] @washingtonpos...
Elon Musk says all of the $6B in xAI's Series B is new money rather than shares “given” to investors in Musk's takeover of Twitter
- That said, there's plenty of overlap in the investor list, and it's unclear if the original Twitter/X backers also received additional equity in xAI …
An analysis of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity's responses to some real-life questions and everyday tasks: Perplexity ranked first overall
We tested OpenAI's ChatGPT against Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini, along with Perplexity and Anthropic's Claude. Here's how they ranked.
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2
and whether accessing and using those to create cheats is copyright infringement. https://www.polygon.com/... Stephen Totilo / @stephentotilo : NEW: What just might be the first-ever video game cheati...
Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more
Cencora, previously AmerisourceBergen, said it obtained patients' data through partnerships with other drug makers, including Abbvie, Acadia, Bayer, Novartis, Regeneron. … X: Engr. Abubakar Mundir / @...
Data.ai: of the top 20 education apps in the US App Store, five are AI agents that help with school assignments, the two most popular of which are Chinese-owned
Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone …
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties
https://restofworld.org/... X: @brianhioe : Nice piece by @violazhouyi on how Threads has taken on an unusual role in coordinating protests in Taiwan currently https://restofworld.org/... Caiwei Chen ...
Four of the top seven best-reviewed games on Metacritic in 2024 so far, not counting remakes, are indies, including Animal Well and Balatro in the top three
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Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @carnage4life , @carnage4life , @joshuaogundu , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Da...
SoftBank's outlay for AI investments has more than doubled to $8.9B in the 12 months since Masayoshi Son said the firm was ready to go on the “counteroffensive”
Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances
A look at the UK's $5.5B gaming industry, as private equity firm EQT makes a £2.2B offer for Keyword Studios, and other developers shore up their balance sheets
Developers shore up their balance sheets after a difficult few years — Pass the controller. LinkedIn: Patrick O'Donnell LinkedIn: Patrick O'Donnell : Happy to share my thoughts on the Video Games In...
IoT Analytics: Nvidia, whose Q1 data center revenue grew 427% YoY to $22.6B, has 90%+ market share for data center GPUs, as Intel and AMD scrap for second place
or at least gain ground on — Nvidia, the U.S. chipmaker that has become synonymous with the AI boom. https://asia.nikkei.com/... Aaron Levie / @levie : These 2 numbers have never been next to each oth...
How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without major compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive or private
literally. Recent advancements by Microsoft have made it possible … Ian Mullane : This may have passed you by, but think about the potential. We have moved from only being able to run LLMs in the cl...
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to both build and package chips in the same ~$32B fab in Hokkaido, setting the company apart from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung
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China still has a significant amount of illicit crypto activity, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing's digital asset trading ban
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A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses
Congress quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project Intel proposed to build chips for defense and intelligence needs
Christine Mui / Politico :
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