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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 giant’s 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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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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Anthropic says the jailbreak that prompted the contentious foreign-access ban worked on other AI models, as well. Read more ›
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CMOs at large companies are challenged to build an operating model with AI, says Denise Persson, CMO at Snowflake. Read more ›
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As enterprise AI systems scale to handle complex workflows, practitioners face the challenge of routing subtasks to the right tools and skills. Agents can have hundreds of tools and skills and get confused on which one to use for each step of a workflow.To address this challenge, researchers at Alibaba developed SkillWeaver, a framework that creates an execution graph for a given task and chooses the right skills for each... Read more ›
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If you're in the mood to go all out on someone who's deserving, our editors have selected our favorite luxury gifts that are a cut above the rest. Read more ›
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“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer. Read more ›
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Sony's plan to stop manufacturing physical PlayStation game discs by 2028 sparked online jokes and concerns about digital media and ownership. Read more ›
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Nuclear power is one of the more efficient means of generating power, and data centers require a lot of it, so how many reactors would it take? Read more ›
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AI voice startup ElevenLabs is exploring a secondary share sale that could value the company at about $22 billion, less than six months after raising $500 million at half that valuation. The proposed deal would give employees a chance to ... Read more ›
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Two of the biggest US carriers are battling for your business. We run down all the specs and features of their plans. Read more ›
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The island nation draws 1.2 million tourists a year — predominantly from Europe, and predominantly on all-inclusive packages. A World Cup run won't change that overnight, but it may bring awareness to Americans who struggle to place the island nation on a map. Read more ›
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Meta has quietly launched Pocket, a new AI-powered app that lets users create, play, and share mini-games simply by describing them in plain English. Read more ›
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Gay dating app Goose is accused of using AI-generated models to send promotions to gay men. Read more ›
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July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is […] Read more ›
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Plex's $750 Lifetime Pass price is now live, and our reader polls suggest buyers may be few and far between. Read more ›
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Каждый бэкенд-разработчик рано или поздно сталкивается с ситуацией, когда база данных MySQL внезапно ложится при резком пиковом наплыве пользователей. Классическая ошибка на старте - создавать новое независимое соединение с СУБД на каждый чих приложения, выполнять один короткий запрос и закрывать коннект. Когда на сайт одновременно залетают сотни людей, сервер моментально упирается в системный лимит max_connections и падает с ошибкой OperationalError: (1040, 'Too many connections'), попутно забивая всю дост Read more ›
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Citigroup wants to tackle the murky ownership problems that have proliferated among private tech firms as more special purpose vehicles have popped up promising to connect investors with the hottest startups. The bank this month said it is launching a new service that lets investors trade private company shares on a blockchain. It’s initially limited to foreign investors—it will expand to the U.S. later. And Citi needs the companies to... Read more ›
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Remember back to last December, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order designed to “remove barriers to United States AI leadership”? Trump said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s “attempt to paralyze this industry” and planned a “minimally burdensome national standard” for regulation. It’s a different story now.Today, The Information reported that in response to a request from the Trump administration, OpenAI was releasing its latest model only... Read more ›
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Samsung Group, the South Korean tech giant, plans to unveil an investment package of more than 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) next week, a record pledge aimed at chips, AI data centers, batteries and display, according to the Maeil Business Newspaper. The investments, amounting to half of ... Read more ›
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Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle. It had relied entirely on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth and never raised outside money. That changed in the middle of this month, when DeepSeek completed a $7.4 billion fundraising that valued the startup at more than $50 billion, the biggest ever first-time fundraising by a Chinese startup. The... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s recent bond sale is weakening in the secondary market, with investors now demanding a significantly bigger yield premium versus U.S. treasuries from when the offering priced on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported on Friday. A large dealer was quoting SpaceX’s 2056 bonds at as much as 0.28% ... Read more ›
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One after the other, four men jumped onto a stage at the front of a darkened, crowded hall one recent evening in central Beijing. Each of them was fired up. The subject: superadvanced batteries. One of these batteries, a man said, was perfect to power ultra-cheap electric vehicles and another for ultraexpensive ones. A third could almost completely charge a car in 11 minutes, while a fourth could do so... Read more ›
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When people ask me what I've learned about leadership from reporting on tech companies for 20 years, I always say the same thing: that the most successful CEOs are more pragmatic than zealous. Tech CEOs are notorious for using visionary language and tying it to their personal beliefs about improving the world. They brandish mission statements about organizing all the world’s information and make us believe that their products are... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Friday launched GPT-5.6, its most advanced AI models, to a small group of partners that have been cleared by the U.S. government to use the technology, according to the release blog post. The move confirms The Information’s Thursday report that OpenAI will release the new models in a ... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services is raising the price for its AI workload rental service by 20%, the company said on Friday, in what appears to be another example of how the global compute crunch is increasing costs throughout the tech supply chain. AWS’s price increase affects its EC2 Capacity Blocks, which ... Read more ›
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Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses chief, Paul Meade, is leaving for OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. Meade, a vice president, will depart Apple by next week and join OpenAI’s hardware unit to work on its forthcoming line of devices, Bloomberg said. Meade has been at Apple since 2010 and in the ... Read more ›
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