London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale raised a $1.1B Series B led by Aker, with Nvidia participating; Aker says it is investing $285M for a 9.3% stake
‘Largest Series B in European History’ Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times : Nvidia-backed Nscale raises $1.1bn in investor frenzy over AI infrastructure Reuters : Nscale raises $1.1 billion from Aker, oth...
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems
PowerEdge XE9712 servers are enterprise-ready Kate Irwin / PCMag : Nvidia's Delayed Blackwell AI Chips Overheating in Servers Matthew Gooding / DatacenterDynamics : Nvidia redesigns 72-GPU AI server r...
Microsoft unveils a Copilot keyboard key, shipping in new PCs and laptops from its partners, the first major change to the PC keyboard layout in nearly 30 years
adds dedicated AI Copilot key to all future PCs Lily Polanco / New.blicio.us : Windows PCs Get Dedicated AI Key as Microsoft Bakes Copilot into Hardware Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat : Microsoft adds C...
Airbus is in talks to acquire Atos' cybersecurity and data unit for up to €1.8B; Atos says another company also made an offer; Thales reportedly showed interest
Group's strategy adjusted in light of financial constraints to ensure … Reuters : Atos says Airbus offers up to $2 bln for cybersecurity unit Adrià Calatayud / Wall Street Journal : Airbus In Talks to...
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise to let users prompt the tool using voice commands or by uploading an image, coming to all users “soon after”
and Look Into Your Life Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision still has flaws, paper reveals The Hill : ChatGPT given the ability to talk Laurent Giret / Thurrott : ChatGPT Can Now Ta...
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more
Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Reuters : Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI Kara Carlson / USA Tod...
Microsoft says hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan' DDoS attacks “temporarily impacted availability” of Azure, Teams, Outlook, and more services in early June 2023
Possibly Pro-Russian Ties The Hacker News : Microsoft Blames Massive DDoS Attack for Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive Disruptions Wes Davis / The Verge : Microsoft says June Outlook outages were a DDoS at...
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023
Today I shared with Twitch employees that we've … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone exactly as planned Bloomberg : Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Deepening Biggest Pullb...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Uber takes some internal systems offline to investigate a network breach; Yuga Labs' Sam Curry says it appears the hacker pretty much has “full access to Uber”
what you need to know Msmash / Slashdot : Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems Prajeet Nair / BankInfoSecurity.com : Uber Probes Breach After Hacker Boasts About Intrusion Michael Hill / ...