TMtechmemeFiling: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (Casey Newton/Platformer)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (Bloomberg)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMETR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (METR)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% (The Information)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (Wall Street Journal)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOkta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's "collection, retention, and dissemination of the data" from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (Andrew Solender/Axios)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (Business Insider)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTrump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)industry29 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSalesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)industry29 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above a $104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)industry29 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBrazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate (Reuters)industry29 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeInternal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person "AI responsibility" team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)industry29 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAWS plans to add 2M Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs to its data center fleet in 2027 and 2028, in addition to 1M GPUs announced in March (Bloomberg)industry29 days ago▲ 24Read story→