TMtechmemeCohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNoetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIn an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (Ina Fried/Axios)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeLawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding (Globe and Mail)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (Financial Times)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools (Reuters)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack wide appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion (The Information)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeModular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites (Adele Peters/Fast Company)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product (Bloomberg)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBillionaire-backed AI safety activists have significantly expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (Washington Post)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor (404 Media)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeiPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers (Allison Johnson/The Verge)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemePrediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins at manufacturing time (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019 (Bloomberg)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeInternal documents: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON is selling stolen foreign intelligence and using AI systems to make the data more accessible for police (Wall Street Journal)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAn in-depth look at loss-of-control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, the polarized reactions between the AI safety and cybersecurity communities, and more (AI as Normal Technology)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→