IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more
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Flock Cameras Are Dividing U.S. Cities. Here’s What to Know About Them.
Flock Safety’s automated license plate-reading cameras, used by thousands of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., have drawn intense criticism from civil liberties groups.
Wall St. Wants Another Half-Trillion Dollars for the A.I. Boom
Six giant investment firms announced a $500 billion effort to raise money for customers of Nvidia to pay for computing power.
Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn’t filling empty Democratic seat
The Federal Communications Commission has been shorthanded throughout Tweety McTreason’s second term, but it’s about to get a new commissioner. Unsurprisingly, Trump is breaking a
New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate
Imagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records
Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales
His Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon
Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on
Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to
His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company
A co-founder of xAI is going all in on building open-source artificial intelligence so that “anyone can control and shape A.I. for their own needs.”
How Social Media Sparked a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in
Nick Blair seeks $200m for pre-launch defence-tech startup Pyra
Nick Blair, a son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, is trying to raise around $200m for a defence-tech startup that has not yet
HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks
HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and
AI finds so many Windows flaws, Microsoft can’t keep up. Should you worry?
Be careful what you wish for. That’s what Microsoft found out recently when it discovered that AI — rather than making Windows more secure by
Meta’s local AI model prompts enterprises to rethink hardware-software cost trade-off
Meta rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU on Monday, offering a way
Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance
A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios