Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta (META.O) …
Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies
A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn't taking risks.
Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.
Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US
If you opt into the test, you'll see the option to generate an Audio Overview based on some of your searches. … Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews …
Source: Accel, which owns 18.5% of Scale AI after investing a total of ~$350M, expects to gain over $2.5B from Meta's $14.3B investment in the startup
Possibly The Biggest Private AI Deal This Year Scale AI : Scale AI Announces Next Phase of Company's Evolution Julie Bort / TechCrunch : New details emerge on Meta's $14.3B deal for Scale Daniel Levin...
President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal
Massive DeFi Bet Revealed in Disclosure Vignesh Karunanidhi / crypto.news : Trump turns crypto influence into income, ethics form shows $57m token windfall NBC News : Trump's financial disclosures rev...
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes its 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips
Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims
Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year
Move to artificial intelligence for some nonemergency calls is expected to help human responders focus on the urgent ones.
As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces
From Airbnb's new app icons to Apple's “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again. Threads: @asallen . X: @austincarr , @asallen , and @a...
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly
here's how to protect your privacy Samantha Subin / CNBC : Here's how to keep Meta AI from sharing your prompts on Facebook, Instagram Richi Jennings / Security Boulevard : Meta AI is a ‘Privacy Disas...
Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M
Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital.
Horizon3.ai, whose AI-based penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $100M Series D led by NEA
Autonomous security startup Horizon3.ai locked up a $100 million Series D led by NEA, co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani tells Axios Pro.
AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others
THE SCOOP — Tech startup AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously …
A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI
- Y Combinator's spring 2025 batch featured 70 startups focused on agentic AI. — The intensive, three-month accelerator program invests $500,000 in each selected startup.
23andMe says TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit backed by Anne Wojcicki, is the new buyer for the company's assets, offering $305M and topping Regeneron's bid
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A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs
Social media is a minefield for pro sports players. But online chess offers rankings, instant analysis, wholesome interactions and few trolls.
Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market
Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google's planned $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz Inc …
Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3
Kalshi's AI-generated NBA Finals ad — created in just 2 days for $2,000 using Google's Veo 3 — represents a watershed moment for our industry. … See also Mediagazer
Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto
Modern AI systems are shaped not only by compute and algorithms but by human feedback. Reece Rogers / Wired : This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models Kyt Dotson / Sili...
Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS
Ellipsis Health just announced a $45M funding round led by Salesforce Ventures …
Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum
but when has a large tech company ever done THAT? Certainly not the asbestos cloud... [embedded post]
Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale
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A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT TO: DAVID O. SACKS SPECIAL ADVISOR … Bluesky: @thinkyparts : I think it's tax free for him to sell because he's in the administration right? [embedd...
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