Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a
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China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim
China’s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into
Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work
Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation for Ubuntu
Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they
Warp Launches Factories to Let Engineering Teams Build Their Own Cloud Software Factories
▶️ Warp has introduced Factories, infrastructure for running your own cloud software factory with fleets of agents.▶️ Agents handle triage, specs, implementation, and review; humans
Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads
Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two
Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in
Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.
The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Trump’s space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land
A new national space transportation policy signed by President Tweety McTreason on Thursday calls for the development of more spaceports to support more than 1,000
Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
Most of what we know about the Earth’s interior comes from observing seismic waves. These travel at somewhat different speeds depending on the details of
TikTok Settles With U.S. Over Child Privacy Concerns for $400 Million
The Justice Department resolved a lawsuit that accused the social media company of illegally gathering children’s information.
OpenAI adds an AI safety layer to detect misuse without retaining enterprise data
OpenAI is adding a new safety capability that allows enterprises to detect misuse of its AI systems across multiple interactions without retaining prompts or responses
4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature
For the longest time, the tech industry’s unofficial motto was “if the product is free, you are the product.” Most of us just accepted it.
Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself
Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs