Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner says he was fired in April 2024 for writing a memo to the board over concerns about OpenAI's security practices
Leopold Aschenbrenner also said he was interrogated about his team's “loyalty to the company” — Leopold Aschenbrenner …
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 per month to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price hike for US subscribers
Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July. — Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll …
Australia's eSafety commissioner ends the legal action asking X to remove a video of a clergyman's stabbing; Musk labelled the action an assault on free speech
Australia's eSafety commissioner has ended legal action that aimed to compel social network X to take down a video depicting …
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies”
Detail how AI unlocks new possibilities in the data center and cloud, PC … Ronak Kumar / The Crypto Times : OpenAI & Google DeepMind Employees Warn of AI Risks Webb Wright / The Drum : AI researchers ...
A look at Apple's OpenAI deal before WWDC; sources say Apple plans to offer AI features as an opt-in service, and is working on two LLM-powered robotic devices
An OpenAI agreement is due to be announced at the Apple's developer conference next week. — When a 23-year-old Sam Altman took …
How a series of hacks, including a recent ransomware attack, show the challenges facing the UK's NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents
- Health care is the most-targeted industry for cyber extortion — Latest attack targeted a “life-critical” supplier to UK's NHS
Apple plans to fix another Screen Time bug that let kids visit X-rated websites; two researchers say they reported the bug to Apple in March and August 2021
Apple's Screen Time continues to be marred by bugs that let its youngest users circumvent parental controls
In a letter, 16 Republican lawmakers accused Nigeria of taking Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan “hostage” and urged President Biden to help secure his release
US lawmakers accused Nigeria of taking a Binance Holdings Ltd. executive “hostage” and urged President Joe Biden to help secure his release.
An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone network to catch criminals like “Microsoft”
When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners' hands.
AT&T resolves an outage that preventing many customers from completing calls between carriers, but 911 calls still worked; Verizon users also reported issues
A nationwide AT&T outage is once again leaving some customers in the dark on Tuesday. — In a statement sent to CNN …
Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's closest advisers, is leaving; his style rubbed colleagues the wrong way
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.
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO
Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion.
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027
- New facility begins construction in second half of 2024 — Region poised to benefit from drive to diversify from China
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin plans to raise ~$321M to buy back bitcoin and make users whole after an “unauthorized outflow” of 4,503 bitcoin on May 31
- DMM Bitcoin suffered one of largest hacks of a crypto platform — Exchange gathering cash to buy Bitcoin to make customers whole
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says TSMC, Intel, and Samsung will all get its €350M high-NA EUV machines by the end of 2024; the machines can print 8nm lines on chips
- TSMC has previously said ASML's new machine is too expensive — Intel has already received its first high-NA EUV machine
A profile of CoreWeave; the cloud GPU provider plans to spend $2.2B to build three European data centers and repurpose several Core Scientific facilities
CoreWeave benefits from jump in AI chip demand and eyes UK and Europe expansion — An upstart challenger to cloud computing giants Amazon …
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
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Singapore-based Nium, a B2B cross-border payments infrastructure provider, raised $50M at a $1.4B valuation, down from $2B in 2022, as the firm eyes a 2025 IPO
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Financial technology startup Nium told CNBC Wednesday it raised $50 million in new funds from investors …
How Taiwan and South Korea are using chip know-how, willpower, and supply networks to stay ahead of the US, offering lower costs and faster construction times
The companies and governments have know-how, willpower and supply networks that likely surpass America's big push back into chip production
Asana unveils “AI teammates”, a new feature in beta for select customers to help manage projects and tasks, ahead of general availability later in 2024
When the tech industry describes AI's role in its products, it hardly chooses language at random.
How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power
The East African country's identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics X: @privacymatters , @silvermanjacob , @oliviasolon , @oliviasolon , @rinachandran , and ...
Sources: some Chinese AI chip companies, including MetaX and Enflame, are submitting less powerful GPU designs to TSMC to comply with US sanctions
Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) …
Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; the IRS said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised it to $24B
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Cisco introduces new AI products and services, including its Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters in partnership with Nvidia, and announces a $1B AI investment fund
and it's already backing Mistral, Cohere, and Scale AI Chris Mellor / Blocks and Files : VAST Data joins forces with Cisco to boost AI datacenters Megan Crouse / TechRepublic : Cisco Live 2024: Cisco ...
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 UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules that a class action lawsuit against Google over allegations of abusing its dominance in digital ads can proceed
this time in London Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : Google Must Face $17 Billion Adtech Lawsuit, Tribunal Rules The Mirror : Google faces £13.6billion legal claim over ‘anti-competitive’ advertising tech Ro...
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
Databricks plans to acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and others, for $1B+
We are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Tabular … Lindsay Clark / The Register : Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars Tabular : Tabular is joining Da...
Apollo Global agrees to buy 49% equity interest in a joint venture related to Intel's Fab 34, under construction in Leixlip, Ireland, for $11B
Sourasis Bose / Reuters :
Tobiko, which offers a dbt-compatible data transformation service to help teams manage data, raised a $4.5M seed and $17.3M Series A led by Theory Ventures
Data transformation startup Tobiko may not be a household name yet, but you may have seen co-founder and CEO Tyson Mao on …
YouTube, the only major US platform available in Russia, has become a primary source of entertainment for many Russians, making a ban tricky for the Kremlin
for now. https://www.wired.com/... #Russia Bluesky: Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : And it's not like Google is going to turn down free money just because Russia invaded Ukraine [embedded p...
Twelve Labs, which provides foundational models to help users search and analyze troves of video, raised a $50M Series A co-led by NEA and Nvidia's NVentures
yet most of it is unsearchable. Millions of hours of valuable information and insights, locked in a closed system. That's a problem @twelve_labs is solving. Their multimodal AI model technology can ma...
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%
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Switzerland-based Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $27M Series B led by Forestay
Our new funding round was led by Forestay Capital with The D. E. Shaw Group joining the table. …
Elon Musk says Tesla will likely spend $3B to $4B on Nvidia hardware in 2024 and that half of its formerly noted $10B AI-related capex will be on internal spend
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters :
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
How billionaire investors of the internet era are fighting to determine whether AI's future will be one of concentrated safety or unfettered advancement
Alex Konrad / Forbes : X: @bgurley , @sarthakgh , @ylecun , and @twobitidiot X: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : Tickled to be mocked a “johnny-come-lately” to open-source in @alexrkonrad's important article...
Avail, a modular blockchain project building “rollup-centric infrastructure”, raised a $43M Series A, after raising a $27M seed in February 2024
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
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
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post :
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $7.2B, vs. $6.82B est., Server revenue up 18% YoY to $3.87B, helped by availability of Nvidia AI chips; HPE jumps 15%+
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
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
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
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