TMtechmemeValencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
YhackernewsMistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tierhackernews14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSurvey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 (Washington Post)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe EU General Court dismisses Opera's challenge against the European Commission's decision to exempt Microsoft Edge from DMA gatekeeper regulations in 2024 (Reuters)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSurvey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time (Pew Research Center)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMemo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxis (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAcer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAcer unveils its fourth-generation Vero 16 with modular elements like removable bottom covers and hinges, user-replaceable batteries and SSDs, and more (Tyler Graham/CNET)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAcer unveils the Predator Atlas 7, a 7" handheld with an Intel Arc G3 Extreme CPU, shipping in November, and the Project DualPlay Mini, an 8" concept device (Mariella Moon/Engadget)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeRobotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (Bloomberg)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeQ&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of "rogue AI", and may presage truly "self-sovereign" agents and swarms of agents that have no "owner" (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (SemiAnalysis)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFrontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (Financial Times)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→