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New Intel chip production process reportedly underperformed in Broadcom test as next-gen process shelved
Updated with Intel statement on process nodes: A new chip manufacturing process from Intel Corp. failed to meet Broadcom Inc.’s expectations in a recent evaluation, Reuters reported today. The development may mark a setback for Intel’s foundry business. The unit uses the company’s fabs to make processors for other organizations based on their own custom ...
AI nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches new research initiatives, venture arm
The Cosmos Institute, a new philanthropic organization, today detailed four initiatives through which it hopes to advance artificial intelligence research. The Cosmos Institute is a nonprofit focused on exploring how AI and philosophy can be combined in positive ways. Its founding fellows include Oxford University professor Philipp Koralus, former U.S. Defense Department technologist Brendan McCord ...
The never-ending AI funding boom: Ilya Sutskever’s SSI raises $1B+ as Nvidia invests in two startups
SSI, an artificial intelligence startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, has raised more than $1 billion in funding to support its research. The company disclosed the investment today. The announcement came against the backdrop of funding milestones from two other generative AI startups: enterprise chatbot provider You.com Inc. and language model maker Sakana AI ...
Root Signals raises $2.8M for its AI reliability monitoring platform
Root Signals Inc., a startup that helps companies monitor the reliability of their artificial intelligence models, has closed a $2.8 million investment to advance its growth plans. The funding round was announced today. Root Signal, which maintains offices in Palo Alto and Helsinki, said that Angular Ventures led the round with participation from Business Finland. ...
Clearview AI fined €30.5M in the Netherlands over its facial recognition database
The Netherlands’ privacy watchdog today fined Clearview AI Inc. €30.5 million, or about $33.7 million, over its controversial facial recognition database. The penalty is the latest in a series issued to the company by data protection regulators. Moreover, Clearview AI’s business practices were the focus of multiple lawsuits in the U.S. over the past few ...
Intel debuts efficiency-optimized Core Ultra 200V processors for laptops
Intel Corp. today introduced a new line of laptop processors touted as its most power-efficient to date. The Core Ultra 200V series, as the product family is called, comprises nine chips on launch. The flagship Core Ultra 9 288V can perform as many as 120 trillion computations per second. More notably, it does so with ...
Elon Musk’s xAI launches ‘Colossus’ AI training system with 100,000 Nvidia chips
Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. has completed the assembly of an artificial intelligence training system that features 100,000 graphics cards. Musk announced the milestone in a Monday post on X. The system, which xAI calls Colossus, came online over the weekend. The CEO launched xAI last year to compete with OpenAI, which he is currently suing for ...
Amazon hires founders of AI robotics startup Covariant
Amazon.com Inc. is hiring the three founders of Covariant, a well-funded startup that develops artificial intelligence software for warehouse robots. The company announced the move late Friday. Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen and Rocky Duan, who worked at OpenAI before launching Covariant, are moving to Amazon’s Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics Team. They will be joined by ...
HPE to pursue Autonomy damages claim against estate of Mike Lynch
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. plans to proceed with its civil lawsuit against the estate of British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch, multiple U.K. publications reported today. Lynch perished last month when the Bayesian, a superyacht on which he was staying, sank off Sicily during a storm. Six other people including his daughter Hannah also lost their ...
OpenAI could reportedly change its corporate structure
OpenAI is weighing the possibility of changing its corporate structure, multiple sources familiar with the matter told the Financial Times today. The move would reportedly be intended to help the company draw more investor interest. Earlier this week, multiple publications reported that OpenAI is in the process of raising a new funding round worth several ...