The Trump administration is trying to look for alternatives to Elon Muskâs SpaceX for its âGolden Domeâ missile defense project, Reuters reported Wednesday. U.S. officials have spoken with other companies including Amazon, which is launching satellites for its Project Kuiper satellite internet ... Read more âș
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Ever since researchers began noticing a slowdown in improvements to large language models using traditional training methods, theyâve shifted to reinforcement learning, a technique that rewards a model for accomplishing certain goals and penalizes it for other behaviors, as we covered last week.That typically means human experts giving feedback on model outputs or showing a model examples of tough questions and answers in fields like software engineering, biology and medicineâessentially,... Read more âș
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Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the companyâs artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Appleâs technical progress in AI while also harnessing the help of outside researchers to improve the models. Still, it also would have revealed to the public how dramatically the performance of the models dropped when Apple shrunk them to fit on iPhones, compared... Read more âș
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OpenAI and Oracle said Tuesday that they agreed to develop an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity in the U.S., increasing their earlier agreement ninefold. The deal comes as other artificial intelligence developers including xAI and Meta Platforms tout their plans for big clusters ... Read more âș
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Will Microsoft dock Satya Nadellaâs pay again this year? The software giant faced the latest in a seemingly endless string of security breaches over the weekend, when it told customers that hackers were exploiting a flaw in its SharePoint file-sharing software. According to a statement by cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, the fact that SharePoint is integrated with Microsoftâs other services, such as Office, Teams and Outlook, makes the hack... Read more âș
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A joint venture between OpenAI and SoftBank to develop $500 billion worth of data centers for artificial intelligence is off to a slow start. The companies have scaled back their initial plans due to disagreements and may only develop a small data center by the end of the year, according to the ... Read more âș
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Fidji Simo, the former Instacart CEO and former OpenAI board member, will take up her previously announced post as CEO of OpenAIâs Applications on Aug. 18, she said in a post on X on Monday. In an accompanying blog post, Simo shared her thoughts on the promise of AI, including its potential to ... Read more âș
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CoreWeave said Monday it would raise $1.5 billion in debt, two months after it raised $2 billion to help refinance existing debt. The artificial-intelligence chip rental company has soared more than 200% in trading since its March initial public offering, when it came to the stock market ... Read more âș
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Blackstone withdrew from a consortium of investors looking to invest in TikTokâs U.S. operations, Reuters reported. The move comes amid ongoing uncertainty around the timing of a deal and multiple delays from the Trump administration via executive orders. A Blackstone spokesperson did not ... Read more âș
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Crypto custody firm BitGo said on Monday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, the latest crypto company rushing to go public as investors embrace digital asset-focused companies. Founded in 2013, BitGo is one of the largest U.S.-based firms that offer custody services to ... Read more âș
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Microsoft warned customers over the weekend that hackers were exploiting a previously undiscovered security flaw in its SharePoint file-sharing software and urged them to update their software to fix the vulnerability. The flaw impacts versions of SharePoint that customers run locally on their ... Read more âș
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Iâm back from the International Conference on Machine Learning in Vancouver, one of the biggest annual meetups for artificial intelligence researchers. And this year, the conference underscored all the ways in which large language models are still falling short of everyoneâs expectations, despite the immense progress that got us to this point.Researchers even called into question some of the most promising techniques that have gained popularity over the last year,... Read more âș
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Figma set a tentative pricing range for its initial public offering of between $25 and $28 a share, which on a fully diluted basis translates to between $14.6 billion and $16.4 billion. Thatâs below the $20 billion at which Adobe was proposing to buy Figma, back in 2022, a deal that was ... Read more âș
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After two blockbuster tech initial public offerings, investors are positively drooling over Figmaâs upcoming listing. The design software company is expected to launch into a surprisingly hot market for tech offerings led by CoreWeave and Circle, which are up more than 200% and 600%, respectively, since they started trading. Figma boasts blazing-fast sales growth: 46% in the first quarter, outshining the rest of the software industry. It has grown into... Read more âș
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Elon Musk says his xAI will launch an AI targeted at children that will be called âBaby Grok.â He offered no further details about the product, which he announced in a Saturday evening post on X. Muskâs xAI has quickly become a top contender in the AI race, while its signature product, ... Read more âș
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After Elon Musk left Washington and ignited a feud with President Donald Trump last month, the Trump administration reviewed the governmentâs contracts with Muskâs SpaceX and thought about cutting some of them. In the end, it didnâtâafter deciding they were too vital to the Defense Department ... Read more âș
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President Donald Trump is suing The Wall Street Journal over a story published by the newspaper about birthday letters sent to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Trump was one of several people who sent Epstein a letter, the Journal reports. Trump denies sending the letter. The attack on the ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Flying taxis near reality thanks to an unexpected boost from Toyotaâą The Top 5: A tech mogulâs guide to summer fashion, Sun Valley style ⹠Plus, our Recommendations: âFlesh and Code,â âThe CIA Book Clubâ and âSu Majestad.âSilicon Valley has many flaws. A prominent one: an industrywide aversion to good, catchy names. Too many lowercase letters. Too few vowels. Sometimes a name... Read more âș
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President Donald Trumpâs recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customersâmostly big tech firms like ByteDance and Alibabaâinto a frenzy to snap up chips before the U.S. administration changes its mind again. Nvidiaâs message: not so fast. The AI chip giant has told its customers it has only limited stocks of the H20 chipsâthe most powerful AI chip it... Read more âș
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What do you get when you mix plenty of the worldâs most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway camp setup in Idaho? Well, for years, the Sun Valley Conference, hosted by Allen & Co., the ultrasecretive investment bank, was a place to hobnob and perhaps strike a deal. Itâs something else now: an honest-to-goodness fashion event, with more and more attendees clearly putting considerable effort into what they put on each... Read more âș
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