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)industry5 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)industry5 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)industry5 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)industry5 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)industry5 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)industry5 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)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeX adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSelf-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (Joann Muller/Axios)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDelos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeArcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
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→