The global memory chip shortage sparked by the AI boom has prompted companies including Google and Nvidia to spend more effort on alternatives that could ease the supply crunch. One of them is a technology that allows servers to share memory across a data center.The technology, Compute Express Link, or CXL, is seven years old but was slow to take off until recently, in part because it slows down data... Read more âș
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Amazon raised $37 billion in bonds, the company confirmed in a securities filing on Wednesday, buttressing its balance sheet as it ramps up its investment in AI. the bonds range from two year notes to 50 year notes. The debt-raising comes just four months after Amazon raised $15 billion in ... Read more âș
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With OpenAI suddenly scaling back on chatbot checkouts, its foray into shopping hinges on convincing retailers to set up shop with dedicated apps within ChatGPTâand getting people to buy stuff there. It faces hurdles on both fronts. ChatGPT apps have been around for just a few monthsâavailable for around 100 consumer firms, including Uber and Instacartâbut shoppers may not know they exist or how to access them. Right now, ChatGPT... Read more âș
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A cybersecurity agency in China issued a warning about the security risks of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agent builder that has become wildly popular in the country. OpenClawâs fragile security configuration could allow attackers to gain full control of the system, said the National Computer ... Read more âș
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Tencent Holdings is secretly building a new AI agent for its hugely popular WeChat messaging app, in hopes of leapfrogging rivals like Alibaba Group and ByteDance in the race to dominate Chinaâs domestic AI market, The Information reported. The new agent would connect with the millions of ... Read more âș
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OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort. The strategy shift could increase the chatbotâs usage as well as its costs. The move comes about five months after OpenAI released a Sora mobile app, which lets people quickly create videos of themselves and other people or animals doing mesmerizing or humorous acts. The appâs look and feel mimics... Read more âș
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Growth equity firm Glade Brook says it has closed over $1 billion in new funds, nearly double the last fund. The firm invests in AI, space, defense tech, internet and fintech startups, including SpaceX, Stripe and Ramp. The new fund raise is the latest by an investor that can point to ... Read more âș
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Oracle managed to calm some frayed nerves on Wall Street on Tuesday. The cloud and software firm, which has become a focal point for investorsâ anxiety about AI-related spending, reported slightly better than projected revenue for its February quarter. More importantly, for the second time in two quarters, it raised its revenue projection for next fiscal year, which starts in June. Oracle now projects revenue in fiscal 2027 to rise... Read more âș
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Is investing in consumer startups back? Well, itâs back from the dead.When we broke the news of fashion e-tailer Quinceâs $10 billion valuation last week, I thought maybe I was back in 2021. It wasnât long ago that direct-to-consumer brands like Warby Parker and Daily Harvest and more were raking in investment dollars. But following some startupsâ disappointing public debuts and low-priced acquisitions, venture funding for consumer startups almost came... Read more âș
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Ravi Gupta, a partner at Sequoia Capital, and John Hegeman, former chief revenue officer at Meta, are raising at least $1 billion for their new venture called Ithaca Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway-style holding firm that will find acquisition targets and drive growth in part by using artificial ... Read more âș
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Microsoft on Tuesday backed Anthropicâs federal court request to temporarily block the Pentagon from cutting business ties with the AI firm, arguing that the Pentagonâs action could harm Microsoftâs business and the broader tech sector. In a filing Tuesday, Microsoft told a federal judge it ... Read more âș
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Oracle shares rose 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the firm raised its projected revenue for the fiscal year that starts in June by about 8% to $90 billion. The disclosure, which Oracle made as part of its quarterly earnings report, may allay some concerns about the enterprise firmâs ... Read more âș
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Salesforce plans to sell between $20 billion and $25 billion in bonds as soon as this week, to help fund its recently-announced $50 billion stock buyback, Bloomberg reported. The bond offering, coming as Amazon was also in the market trying to raise twice as much, shows how a flood of tech ... Read more âș
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Microsoft appears to be betting that its tried-and-true subscription pricing model for software is here to stay, even in the era of AI agents that run 24/7, and that customers will be OK with ever-higher prices.Microsoft on Monday announced a new AI subscription bundle that combines Office 365 and with 365 Copilot, a suite of AI tools for automating tasks in Office apps, for business customers for the first time.... Read more âș
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Google is providing its Gemini âAgent Designerâ to the Department of Defense for unclassified work, Google announced on Tuesday. The feature, which will be part of the Pentagonâs AI platform GenAI.mil, will allow DOD employees to create AI agents to automate administrative tasks like drafting ... Read more âș
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A judge ordered Perplexity to temporarily stop accessing Amazonâs website, a victory in the e-commerce giantâs lawsuit against the AI search startup. Amazon sued Perplexity in November, arguing Perplexity was fraudulently accessing its site through its AI browser Comet in order to make purchases ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms hired the creators of Moltbook, a social network designed for AI agents, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, who will join its AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the company said. Meta also bought Moltbook itself. Meta said it hopes the integration of the Moltbook team into ... Read more âș
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Microsoft is facing a new cluster of antitrust probes over whether it has illegally monopolized the cloud and software markets. As it gears up for battle, itâs been reorganizing the top ranks of its legal and policy department. Over the past year, Microsoft has shifted at least four executives into new roles within the legal teams under President Brad Smith that handle its response to antitrust regulations. Our new org... Read more âș
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Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab, the model developer co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday to deploy at least one gigawatt of servers powered by Nvidiaâs forthcoming Vera Rubin chips, according to a blog post. The ... Read more âș
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OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars on the promise of artificial intelligence that can make new discoveries in fields like medicine, biology and physics. And yet, weâre nowhere close to that. (You might recall this awkward moment from last fall when a ChatGPT-generated math âdiscoveryâ was debunked.) The reason, according to Markus Buehler, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor, is simple: large language models underpinning... Read more âș
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