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Hollywood filmmakers say it’s increasingly difficult to get funding to develop projects as studios and streaming companies rein in spending. Now two young companies are trying to finance those projects and help their makers use artificial intelligence in development. DreamFlare, an AI video startup, and The Unreasnble, an entertainment company, have partnered to finance more than $100,000 in new original videos and series. The creators range from traditional Hollywood directors and writers to creators more.
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My daughter decided to move back home after college to save money. I had to adjust to another adult in the house, so we agreed on rules. Read more ›
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Alexandr Wang cofounded Scale AI. He's reportedly about to become a very expensive hire at Meta. Read more ›
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Valve has quietly released a Steam Client Beta that runs natively on Apple Silicon, finally ending its reliance on the Rosetta 2 translation layer. The updated Steam client eliminates the performance overhead that plagued Mac gamers since Apple's transition to its own chips. Steam's Chromium-based interface, which could slow to a crawl on occasion, now runs directly on Apple Silicon rather than through Intel emulation. Early testers report dramatically faster... Read more ›
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Warren Buffett famously says that investing in the stock market from a young age and holding for the long run is the safest way to get rich. Read more ›
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Adm. Pierre Vandier told BI that the military alliance has forgotten the principles of a more evenly matched conventional war and needs to reinvest. Read more ›
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23andMe's Interim CEO Joe Selsavage said 1.9 million customers have asked the company delete their data since March. Read more ›
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Trump said he'd been told his immigration policies were "taking very good, long time workers away from" farmers and the hospitality industry. Read more ›
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A new air-gap attack dubbed 'SmartAttack' theorizes using a smartwatch to capture covert signals and steal information. Read more ›
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Top AI researchers like Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are developing a "world" model that doesn't rely solely on language. Read more ›
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Costco will start opening its doors to Executive members at 9 a.m., but workers say they're not getting additional hours to support the change. Read more ›
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first major cloud provider to deploy AMD's Instinct MI350X GPUs and Pensando Pollara 400GbE Ultra Ethernet NICs as part of a massive zettascale AI cluster. Read more ›
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The new measure says paid volunteers have the right to use their personal cars, drones, or even hunting guns to fight off drones. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg's biggest bet on Meta AI will ride on the back of a fellow dropout who has dazzled Silicon Valley over the last decade. Read more ›
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Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the company’s core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday. The move comes as Google’s search business faces unprecedented threats from ChatGPT and following its loss in a U.S. antitrust case that could hurt the company’s ability to distribute its search product. Nick Fox, who runs the knowledge... Read more ›
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Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion, two people familiar with the matter said. The unusual deal will be structured so Meta will send the cash to Scale’s existing shareholders and place the startup’s CEO, Alexandr Wang, in a top position inside Meta, the people said. The deal, which hasn’t yet been finalized, appears to be a rich one for... Read more ›
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Databricks will soon host Google’s Gemini models as part of an expansion of a four-year-old strategic partnership between the companies that will be announced later today, Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, said in an exclusive interview at the company’s customer conference. The ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United Arab Emirates’ MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40 billion financing led by SoftBank, according to two people familiar with the fundraise. The investors could put in at least hundreds of millions of dollars each, they said. An investment in OpenAI by Saudi Arabia’s $900 billion–plus wealth fund would underscore... Read more ›
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Dozens of investment funds that bet on mature startups before the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in early 2022 got creamed. Not Sands Capital, which began investing in public stocks 33 years ago but decided to get into startup investing in 2014. The reason: The firm’s biggest late-stage private tech fund paused making investments in new startups in August 2021, after its managers felt founders were seeking valuations that were... Read more ›
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If all goes as planned in August, a startup called Starcloud from Redmond, Wash., will load a rocket bound for space with a refrigerator-sized satellite, the first to contain an Nvidia H100 chip. Normally, that chip is at the heart of the sprawling data centers back on Earth that run the latest artificial intelligence models. Compared to existing data centers, the Starcloud satellite will be almost comically under-powered: It may... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned to an unlikely person for advice: Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, whose startup did the relatively low-grade work of hiring human experts to improve artificial intelligence... Read more ›
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Another year, another viral tweet argues against “learning to code.” The latest one comes with cherry-picked data implying that art history majors outperform computer scientists in labor markets. Yet the underlying data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York prove the opposite. Art history grads have low unemployment—just 3%—because they are actually underemployed: 47% work in low-wage jobs that require no college degree and earn almost half the median... Read more ›
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Nvidia recently debuted a cloud service enabling artificial intelligence developers to rent server chips directly from the chip designer, part of its push into the cloud market dominated by Amazon and Microsoft. In doing so, Nvidia is encroaching on the turf of CoreWeave and dozens of other up-and-coming firms that sell the same type of service. Nvidia executives told the firms they could make their AI servers available to customers... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Why Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos are sky-high on space data centers• The Arena: Online gambling’s toxic content problem • Opinion: AI has only made coding skills even more essential, Hadi Partovi argues• Plus, our Recommendations: Massachusett’s major wager; Aristotle’s pastime; and a pair of twisty sistersBillionaire divorces can get nasty. Just ask Stevie Cohen or Ken Griffin. And certainly Elon Musk... Read more ›
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