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The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry’s biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was “not consistently candid in his communications with the board.” Now, via witnes

Apple’s rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are “actively using” prototypes that are in the design validation test stage, which is one step before the product

Elon Musk’s plans to get into the AI chip manufacturing business are going to be costly. As the New York Times and CNBC report, SpaceX is planning to invest at least $55 billion into its “Terafab” chip plant in Austin, Texas. That’s according to the details of a public hearing no

Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. On Thursday, a federal court in Oakland, California, hear

The disbelief was palpable when Mozilla’s CTO last month declared that AI-assisted vulnerability detection meant “zero-days are numbered” and “defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.” After all, it looked like part of an all-too-familiar pattern: Cherry-pick a handful

AI will help build the energy it needs. That’s the case U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck made Thursday morning at the SCSP AI+ Expo. The 30-minute fireside chat, moderated by SCSP president Ylli Baj

AMD announces MI350P PCIe AI accelerator card with 144GB of HBM3E — roughly 40% faster in FP16 and FP8 theoretical compute compared to Nvidia's H200 NVL competitor AMD now has the fastest AI accelerator card on the market that fits in a traditional PCIe slot. AMD has launched a n

Will dating app malaise finally kill off the swipe? For Bumble, at least, that seems to be the case. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd confirmed that Bumble will get rid of swiping, the defining feature of 2010s dating apps. “We are going to be

The high-stakes trial in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will conclude its second week of proceedings on Thursday. Musk's attorneys called several witnesses to the stand over the course of the week, including OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Shivon Zilis, who

Tome, a book-tracking app and book lovers community, is closing its doors. Built on the back of the sizable and influential BookTok community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — the app offered readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations

Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is growing revenue at an astronomical rate — and doing something that few U.S. companies, startup or otherwise, would even contemplate: voluntarily promising annual 10% salary raises for all employees on their work anniversaries. In th

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercri

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones sent a warning signal on Thursday, arguing the U.S. is late to the game on artificial intelligence regulation. "We need to do it tomorrow," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday. "We're late already. We should have already done it

Build an AI Tool, Land a Job: Data Center Operator Launches Hiring Contest The winner of DataVita’s OpenClaw Challenge will receive a permanent AI data center role and £35,000 starting salary. A Scottish data center operator is replacing resumes with an AI building competition, w

Prediction market startup Kalshi announced on Thursday a $1 billion Series F round, valuing the company at $22 billion. That’s double the $11 billion valuation Kalshi nabbed just five months ago after raising a $1 billion Series E. This latest round was led by Coatue, with partic

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designated as a “Trusted Contact” will be notified if OpenAI detects that a person may h

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Michael Gerstenhaber VP, Product Management, Cloud AI Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet, is now generally

The head of Jeff Bezos’ family office has left the board of directors of Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by the Amazon founder, according to numerous state filings reviewed by TechCrunch. Melinda Lewison, who leads investments at Bezos Expeditions, appears to have

White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion The proposed review process would give the government first access to frontier AI models. The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executi

Arista Rides AI Scale Out Networks, Moves Into Scale Across, And Awaits Scale Up Like so many other IT suppliers to the tech titans, it will not be long before AI networking will be the largest part of the business at Arista Networks. In fact, if the company can get more supplies

AMD has announced the Instinct MI350P, a PCIe accelerator aimed at enterprises that want on-premises AI inference without rebuilding their data center. The card is a dual-slot, full-height, full-length design built for standard air-cooled servers. It is also the first time in nea

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When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software. The model was so powerful at sniffing out software vulnerabilities, the lab claimed, that it had discovered thousands of high-severity bugs that would need to b

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How BASF manages thousands of supply chain decisions with AlphaEvolve’s agentic algorithms Benjamin Priese Senior Digital SC Manager, BASF Agricultural Solutions Anant Nawalgaria Group AI Product Manager & Engineer, Google The agricultural and crop protection supply chain is one

New Bigtable in-memory tier for sub-millisecond read latency Anton Gething Senior Product Manager Bigtable Sudarshan Kadambi Engineering Manager, Bigtable In the high-stakes world of digital infrastructure, speed isn't just a metric — it’s currency. At Google Cloud Next ‘26 we an

Artificial Intelligence Secure short-term GPU capacity for ML workloads with EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and SageMaker training plans As companies of various sizes adopt graphic processing units (GPU)-based machine learning (ML) training, fine-tuning and inference workloads, the d

Artificial Intelligence Overcoming reward signal challenges: Verifiable rewards-based reinforcement learning with GRPO on SageMaker AI Training large language models requires accurate feedback signals, but traditional reinforcement learning (RL) often struggles with reward signal

Alongside taking the wraps off the new Fitbit Air, a Whoop-esque fitness band, Google on Thursday said it is also rebranding its Fitbit app as Google Health and launching an AI-powered health coach as a subscription service. The Health app will become a central part of Google’s f

Lian Li’s new DK07 Wood motorized standing desk doubles as a dual-PC chassis with support for E-ATX systems and massive cooling setups — five new wood-finished models are available now Got wood? PC case and accessories manufacturer Lian Li has announced a new variant for its DK07

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