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 ›
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One of the earliest AI Agenda newsletters in August 2023 made the bear case for large language model developers. Over the last year-and-a-half, our predictions from that day seemed to largely come true, as model makers like OpenAI moved more into applications and cheap AI releases from DeepSeek and others threatened the margins of those selling AI models to developers.So why then, has the flood of new model makers with... Read more ›
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DeepSeek’s sudden rise to artificial intelligence stardom has created a dilemma for the Chinese startup: whether to raise money. A two-year-old offshoot of a Chinese quantitative hedge fund, DeepSeek so far has not raised outside funding, partly to avoid pressure from investors to commercialize its products too quickly. But since its AI chatbot app shot to fame a few weeks ago, the need for more AI chips and servers to... Read more ›
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HP said Tuesday that it would pay $116 million for Humane, capping a difficult run for the startup, whose AI-powered pin failed to gain traction since it was released last year. HP said the acquisition, expected to close at the end of this month, will help the company integrate AI into its ... Read more ›
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So much for the idea that the U.S. doesn’t have enough home-grown competitors in artificial intelligence. OpenAI’s former chief technology officer, Mira Murati, confirmed one of the AI world’s worst-kept secrets on Tuesday by revealing the name and team behind her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab. That news came a day after Bloomberg reported that Murati’s former colleague at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, was raising money for his startup at the... Read more ›
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Field AI, a two-year-old startup that makes artificial intelligence models to power robots, is in talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2 billion valuation, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraising discussions. That would quadruple the startup’s valuation last summer when investors including Nvidia valued it at $500 million. The talks are the latest sign of intensifying investor interest in startups that are developing... Read more ›
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The question “What did Ilya see?” became an oft-repeated meme asking why OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, cast a dramatic vote to oust Sam Altman in the short-lived ouster of the CEO 15 months ago. A significant fundraising that would value Sutskever’s new startup, Safe Superintelligence, at more than $30 billion turns that question on its head. The new money would make the company one of the 12 most valuable... Read more ›
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It’s been one month since TikTok briefly went offline in the U.S., and internal company comments and external data offer a picture of how the situation has impacted the short-form video app’s business. By some accounts, TikTok is doing pretty well.  American Users & Creators Read more ›
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Nike is launching a new brand of women’s athletic apparel in partnership with Skims, the Kim Kardashian-founded shapewear and apparel maker, Nike said Tuesday. The new brand will include women’s apparel, footwear and accessories and marks the first collaboration between Nike and an outside ... Read more ›
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Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer at OpenAI, announced her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, in a blog post on Tuesday. The company will focus on AI research and product-building, with an emphasis on publishing research widely. It will aim to build AI that can understand and ... Read more ›
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Thousands of probationary employees across the Department of Health and Human Services received termination notices over the weekend, part of the mass cuts imposed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The firings began Friday, the day after Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed by the ... Read more ›
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A clip recently surfaced on Reddit showing OpenAI executives demonstrating a new ChatGPT feature in Japan. The video showed how ChatGPT’s “deep research” mode, part of a $200-a-month Pro subscription, could automatically sort through sales leads and determine which ones are worth contacting. It determines that by searching the web for data like a company’s revenue. ChatGPT would then email those companies’ representatives to set up a meeting.The rise of... Read more ›
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Even after a shakeout that’s lasted two years, consolidation is still coming for logistics startups. Forto, a Germany-based freight forwarding company that has raised more than $600 million from investors including SoftBank, has been working with investment bank Moelis & Co. to explore options including a potential merger or sale, according to a person involved in the discussions. Forto is the closest venture-backed rival to U.S.-based Flexport, which has been... Read more ›
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Amazon has shut down Inspire, a TikTok-style shopping feed inside its mobile app that it launched in 2022, according to messages to users and a company spokesperson. Users accessed the Inspire feed through a lightbulb-shaped icon in the navigation tab at the bottom of the Amazon app. The feed ... Read more ›
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The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said on X that the reasoning version of Grok 3 performs around the level of... Read more ›
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Google scored a rare hit with an artificial intelligence–powered product last fall: NotebookLM, which helps people summarize documents, even generating podcasts from its results. The podcast feature drew a glowing review from The Wall Street Journal. After the product’s release, CEO Sundar Pichai praised the “small, dedicated team that built NotebookLM, an incredibly popular product that has so much promise.” But the path to launch wasn’t quite so smooth as... Read more ›
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A longtime Google researcher has joined TikTok owner ByteDance to help lead the Chinese company’s artificial intelligence research and development, in one of the Chinese tech giant’s most significant external hires of AI talent to date, according to two ByteDance employees with knowledge of the matter. Wu Yonghui, a 17-year Google veteran who was a vice president and one of the key researchers in charge of the U.S. company’s Gemini... Read more ›
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Safe Superintelligence, the startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise $1 billion in a round led by Greenoaks Capital Partners that would value the startup at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported. Sutskever founded the startup last year after leaving ... Read more ›
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Spotify is having a moment. The music-streaming pioneer recorded its first-ever annual profit in 2024, as a diversification into audiobooks and other new features brought in new subscribers and price hikes boosted revenues. So far this year, Spotify’s stock price has rocketed 43%, making it one of the best-performing tech stocks. But the surge in the paying-subscriber business hasn’t extended to the company’s relatively small advertising business, which Spotify had... Read more ›
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South Korea has suspended downloads of DeepSeek’s mobile app in the country, citing concerns about the way the app collects personal information. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said Monday it had removed the DeepSeek app from local app stores since Saturday, pending an ... Read more ›
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WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging and social networking app in China, has started integrating DeepSeek’s open-source artificial intelligence model into its search function. Tencent said in a statement that it recently began testing a feature in Weixin, the domestic Chinese version ... Read more ›
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