Sources: the Google-Wiz deal failed, in part, due to antitrust fears and CrowdStrike's outage, which increased the potential value of cloud security companies
particularly if top antitrust cops change. That memo may seem definitive, and needed to for employee sanity, but these things are always fluid. Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : ...also th...
Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, filed in California in February 2024 over breach of contract and fiduciary duty
Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data
On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored …
Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator's account after researchers said the company's tech was used to make an audio deepfake used in a fake Biden robocall
Company's technology used to create fake Biden recording, researchers say — The creator of an audio deepfake of US President Joe Biden urging people …
Sources: OpenAI is in talks with CNN and Fox Corp. to license their text, video, and image content; Time “is in discussions with OpenAI” about a content deal
OpenAI is in talks with CNN, Fox & Time to license their content. … X: Lynn Doan / @lynnmdoan : EXCLUSIVE lots of interesting detail including: The Washington Post has not been in ...
US DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer Craig Martell says the agency wants to use AI safely and urges companies to share insights into how their AI tools are built
US DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer Craig Martell says the agency wants to use AI safely and urges companies to share insights into how their AI tools are built
- Defense Department is holding symposium to discuss AI — Official says agency wants to use the algorithms safely Bluesky: @manpageman.bsky.social . X: @alfred_lanning1 , @katrina...
Sources: after struggling to raise at a $4B valuation, Stability AI secured a convertible note worth less than $25M; Stability denies having fundraising issues
Stability AI, the artificial intelligence startup that has been struggling to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation … Twitter: @katie_roof and @lynnmdoan Twitter: Katie Roof / @k...
SVB draws support from 300+ VC firms, including General Catalyst, while 1,200+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking the US Congress to act
More than 100 venture capital and investing firms have signed a statement supporting Silicon Valley Bank, part of mounting industry calls …
Founders fear that the collapse of SVB, which had branches in the UK, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, and more, could wipe out startups around the world
Because startups that banked with SVB don't have access to their funds … Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Silicon Valley Bank collapse is impacting many Indian startups Philip Elmer-DeW...
Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week after eliminating 13% of its staff, or 11,000 jobs, in November 2022 in its first major layoff
Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees …
A draft EU proposal details plans to ask Netflix, Alphabet, and other “large traffic generators” to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure
The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth, like Netflix Inc. and Alphabet Inc. …
Sources: Twitter made its first interest payment under Elon Musk to a group of seven banks; the payment was due around January 27 and estimated to be ~$300M
Bloomberg :