TMtechmemePitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined (Financial Times)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHuawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems (Reuters)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions (Amy Harder/Axios)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDocs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance packages worth $8.15M during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend (Bloomberg)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation (Financial Times)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M funding round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound its $2B buyout by Meta (Bloomberg)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHow AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (Cade Metz/New York Times)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIn an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (New York Times)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (Wall Street Journal)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring (Omar Abdel-Baqui/Wall Street Journal)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGenerac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, navigation works well, but design has compromises (Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSnap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an "anticipatory AI service" (Jay Peters/The Verge)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (Justin Papp/CNBC)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs (Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January (Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeReview of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→