U.K.-based cloud provider Nscale, whose announced customers include OpenAI and Microsoft, is in negotiations to acquire a massive AI data center site in West Virginia, The Information reported. Amazon, Meta and a cloud ally of Google have also expressed interest in the site. The site is ... Read more āŗ
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Bullish, the crypto exchange and owner of news publication CoinDesk, has confidentially filed paperwork for a US initial public offering in recent weeks, the Financial Times reported, joining the growing list of crypto IPOs after stablecoin issuer Circleās blockbuster debut. Jefferies will work ... Read more āŗ
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Food delivery firm DoorDash said on Wednesday it is buying advertising technology company Symbiosys for $175 million, a deal that will help restaurants and other advertisers on DoorDash place ads on external sites and apps. DoorDash also disclosed a breakout of its ad revenue, which it doesnāt ... Read more āŗ
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As competition intensifies in the nascent brain-computer interface market, Precision Neuroscience has tapped Neuralink co-founder Vanessa Tolosa to be senior vice president of research and development. The company also added Vivek Pinto, a former FDA device official, as director of medical ... Read more āŗ
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Elon Musk walked back some of his incendiary comments about President Donald Trump, suggesting a further mending of their relationship, which grew close during the campaign and Muskās time overseeing cost-cutting efforts in Washington but exploded last week into a war of words. āI regret some of ... Read more āŗ
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The cost of acqui-hiring talent keeps rising! Meta Platforms agreed to shell out close to $15 billion for a 49% stake in data-labeling startup Scale AI, whose CEO Alexandr Wang will be joining Meta in a senior position, my colleague Cory Weinberg reported yesterday.Ā I spoke with a number of Scale investors yesterday who shared their uncertainty about what the deal means for the companyās future.Just as important, though, are... Read more āŗ
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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 āŗ
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Ren Zhengfei, founder of Chinaās Huawei Technologies, said the U.S. āoverestimatesā his companyās chip design capabilities amid ongoing trade negotiations between the two countries. In a front-page interview published in the Peopleās Daily state newspaper on Tuesday, Ren said that Huaweiās ... Read more āŗ
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Slack, an instant-messaging service popular with businesses, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages even if their customers permit them to do so, according to a public disclosure from Slackās owner, Salesforce. The move, which hasnāt previously been reported, could hamper fast-growing artificial intelligence startups that have used such access to power their services, such as Glean. Read more āŗ
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Mark Zuckerberg seems confident! As we reported earlier today, Meta Platforms is on the cusp of taking a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8 billion and bringing the AI startupās CEO, Alexandr Wang, on board to lead a new AI lab. There are echoes in the MetaāScale AI talks of earlier deals between big tech companies and AI startups, including Googleās agreement with Character.AI and Microsoftās deal with Inflection.... Read more āŗ
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They are co-workers to be, they are both college dropouts-turned billionaire tech founders and they both have recently steered their public images toward wherever the political winds have blown. With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergās big investment in Alexandr Wangās Scale AI, the two men have something else in commonāthey both made billions for some of the same startup investors.Metaās planned nearly $15 billion investment in Scale AI, which we scooped... Read more āŗ
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Podcasting is booming, driven by the rise of video shows and podcastersā sway during last yearās presidential election. Thatās got me thinking about whether podcasting has become too saturated. Itās a question I posed to our podcasting panel at The Informationās Future of Influence event last week in Los Angeles.Ā Spotify doesnāt think so. The company saw a āmassive, massive reaccelerationā in podcasts last year, while this year is āgrowing... Read more āŗ
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Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the companyās core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday. The move comes as Googleās search business faces unprecedented threats from ChatGPT and following its loss in a U.S. antitrust case that could hurt the companyās ability to distribute its search product. Nick Fox, who runs the knowledge... Read more āŗ
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Tesla still has not given a public launch date for its robotaxi service in Austin, but an observer on Tuesday posted a video of a Model Y on city streets without a human driver behind the wheel, prompting some early celebrations from Teslaās workers and fanbase. āBeautifully simple design,ā CEO ... Read more āŗ
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Glean, a startup that develops search chatbots for businesses, has raisedĀ $150 million in Series F financing led by Wellington Management. Itās the latest sign of investorsā bullishness on enterprise search, a market in whichĀ Amazon Web Services, Google, Snowflake and others are also ... Read more āŗ
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Artificial intelligence may not be advanced enough to run a company yet. But CEOs of some firms are testing ways that AI can sub in for them.They're trying chatbots and video avatars to answer employee questions, schmooze with customers and talk during earnings calls.Ā Read more āŗ
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Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, announced on Tuesday that it would introduce a new generation of augmented reality glasses for sale to the public in 2026. The glasses, called Specs, will display content for wearers to see and offer apps from Snap, other companies and independent ... Read more āŗ
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French bank Societe Generale said it plans to launch a stablecoin that will be available on crypto exchanges and payment platforms, making it the first major bank globally to offer a dollar-pegged stablecoin accessible to retail users. The token, called USD CoinVertible, will be used for crypto ... Read more āŗ
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OpenAI is planning to rent artificial intelligence chip servers from Googleās cloud computing unit, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The move isnāt completely unexpected, given that OpenAI has been desperate to expand its compute capacity and has inked deals with several other cloud providers after ... Read more āŗ
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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 Scaleās existing shareholders and place the startupās CEO, Alexandr Wang, in a top position inside Meta, the people said. The deal, which hasnāt yet been finalized, appears to be a rich one for... Read more āŗ
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Annualized revenue at āAI nativeā companies selling artificial intelligence models or apps has passed $15 billion just two and a half years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, according to The Informationās Generative AI Database.While thatās not the same as $15 billion in actual revenue, itās still an unprecedented haul for such a short time period and means that, collectively, the companies generated about $1.25 billion of revenue in May alone.OpenAI is... Read more āŗ
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