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Meta Platforms bought semiconductor startup Rivos last year to accelerate development of in-house chips and reduce its reliance on Nvidia as it pours cash into data centers for its AI ambitions.
Now six months since the acquisition closed, Meta is struggling to make it work, beset by problems that illustrate the social media giantâs bigger challenges in actually building a chip business, according to 11 current and former employees who have worked on the chip efforts. They described months of uncertainty o
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more âș
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Sony has launched the newest member of its compact cinema camera series in the form of the FX5. In another timeline, the FX5 may have just been an update to the Sony FX3 that launched in 2021, but in the current market it will be launching at a higher price, while the FX3 continues to be on sale. The FX5 launches with enough new toys to make the current and... Read more âș
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The iconic Impala from Chevrolet had quite a run, but there are cars that sold better. You may recognize a few of these makes and models. Read more âș
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The first MacBook Neo refresh may address two of the original modelâs biggest performance limitations through a faster chip and additional memory. Read more âș
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Egyptian developer ZedAxis has demonstrated his $5 ad-blocking dongle in a YouTube video, with the device said to be capable of blocking over 500,000 domains Read more âș
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Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the lead negotiators on the bill, told CoinDesk she was "pleased" that the updated bill was ready for release. Read more âș
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On Wednesday, the Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration. Read more âș
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More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley Read more âș
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more âș
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more âș
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more âș
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"General Motors has been pulling a Tim Cook and boosting its software and subscription business," reports Business Insider. During the automaker's Tuesday earnings call, executives said they're increasingly leaning on software subscriptions like OnStar and Super Cruise to generate high-margin recurring revenue long after customers buy their vehicles. GM says OnStar brought in about $800 million in the second quarter, while Super Cruise revenue grew about 70% year over year.... Read more âș
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The Martian has some interesting tech, including motorized recline and lumbar support, but these add complexity and drive up the price. Read more âș
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Did you click 'decline' on that website cookie banner? Discover the massive new class action lawsuit accusing Toyota of spying on its customers. Read more âș
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Russia painted fake Tu-95s on the tarmac and built 17 shelters to protect the real ones. Ukraine's drones flew 800km and split an actual bomber in half anyway. Read more âș
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This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot, accusing them of stealing intellectual property from the likes of Anthropic and other U.S. AI developers. The administrationâs concerns arenât just rhetoric, though. The Bureau of Industry and Security, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is formally investigating whether Chinese firms like Moonshot, which last week released... Read more âș
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Google booked a huge paper gain from startup investments likely including SpaceX and Anthropic. Read more âș
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Apple is working on a 12th-generation iPad, and plans to update the most affordable tablet in the âiPadâ in 2027. It's not going to be a major update, but if you're planning a purchase, you might want to wait for the newest model. Design There are no rumors of an updated design for the 12th-generation âiPadâ, so it will likely have the same 11-inch edge-to-edge display with Touch ID Side... Read more âș
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Nvidia on Wednesday released a new small, open-source model for âphysicalâ AI that operates in the real world, including for robots. The model, Cosmos 3 Edge, is just 4 billion parameters and can run on a customerâs own computer rather than in a data center. It can act as both a so-called vision ... Read more âș
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Are the Collison brothers looking to spice up their life? According to Reuters and other news outlets, the Collisonsâ payments firm, Stripe, has teamed up with private equity firm Advent to make a $53 billion acquisition offer for PayPal. While the aging payments firm has lost the plot in recent years, this is not exactly a generous offer. Though itâs pitched well above PayPalâs recent rock-bottom price, itâs below where... Read more âș
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company said on Thursday it will invest an additional $100 billion in the U.S., deepening its pledge to manufacture the worldâs most advanced chips in Arizona as demand for AI infrastructure surges. The expansion will add at least four chip plants and ... Read more âș
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Thinking Machines Lab, co-founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced its first AI model called Inkling, while giving a nod to Chinese open-source models. Thinking Machines said in a blog post that Inklingâs architecture design âlargely followsâ DeepSeekâs V3 model, which was ... Read more âș
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Nvidia is working with a recently established Japanese tech consortium to help the country build new computing facilities with its most advanced Rubin chips to develop homegrown AI models. Noetra, a consortium backed by the Japanese government as well as Sony Group, SoftBank, NEC and Honda ... Read more âș
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Uber has agreed to buy all of German food-delivery firm Delivery Hero in a deal that values the company at $14.8 billion. But Uber wonât have to pay all of that as it already owns about 25%, including a big stake bought in May. The acquisition sharply expands Uberâs food-delivery presence ... Read more âș
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Many enterprise software startups that raised money at steep valuations between 2020 and 2022 face diminishing options. Venture capitalists who previously sank funds into these startups have shifted much of their money toward AI. Stocks in public enterprise software companies have fallen sharply. When the startupsâ backers push for cash returns, the most likely exit is sale. To find the companies facing the most pressure to sell themselves, The Information... Read more âș
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It feels like thereâs almost never enough time to get everything done in the run-up to a big event. If your companyâs annual conference is coming up, that means you have a golden opportunity to connect with some of your most important prospects face-to-face. But it likely also means that you need to finish up a booth design, rehearse a keynote speech, or troubleshoot a lapel mic emergency. Gemini can... Read more âș
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As a father to two young kids, Guanlan Dai sees a lot of similarities between AI agents and precocious children. Just as parents might childproof their house and avoid giving their kids access to credit cards, so too must developers limit the important files AI agents can access and how much the agents can spend in one go, he said.Now, Dai, a former Cloudflare technical lead and founding engineer at... Read more âș
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Earlier this week, I wrote about startups moving some of their workloads from Amazon Web Services and other traditional cloud providers to young challengers such as Nebius. Thatâs in part because startups are having trouble getting the Nvidia chips they need on AWS, sometimes because those chips are only available in too expensive packages.Capacity can be so scarce that an Nvidia representative told one small AI startup it should rent... Read more âș
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