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AI chip startup Groq acquires Definitive Intelligence to scale its cloud platform
Groq Inc., a well-funded maker of artificial intelligence inference chips, has acquired fellow startup Definitive Intelligence Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The companies announced the transaction today. The deal will help Groq enhance the capabilities of its newest offering, a cloud platform called GroqCloud that provides on-demand access to its AI chips. Groq was founded ...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged breach of contract
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its Chief Executive Sam Altman for allegedly failing to uphold an agreement inked at the time of the artificial intelligence group’s launch. Musk, who was part of OpenAI’s founding team, filed the lawsuit on Thursday with the San Francisco Superior Court. The Tesla Inc. CEO is seeking a ruling ...
Researchers find security flaw in multiple smart doorbells
Researchers have found a security vulnerability in several popular smart doorbells that could allow bad actors to access footage from the devices. The researchers, who work at the nonprofit organization Consumer Reports, published their findings today. The vulnerability was discovered in doorbells sold by a Shenzhen-based company called Eken under the Eken and Tuck brands. ...
Intel launches standalone FPGA business and previews upcoming chips
Intel Corp. today launched its standalone FPGA business, which will sell reconfigurable chips for systems ranging from cell towers to robots. The business traces its roots to a chipmaker called Altera Corp. that was founded in 1983. Intel bought the company for $16.7 billion in 2015 and later merged it into its data center division. ...
Stack Overflow inks AI partnership with Google Cloud
Stack Overflow and Google LLC today announced a partnership that will make coding knowledge from the former company available through a chatbot interface. Stack Overflow, officially Stack Exchange Inc., operates a popular developer forum that had more than 100 million users as of June 2021. That month, technology investment firm Prosus NV acquired the company ...
Biden issues executive order protecting Americans’ data from countries of concern
U.S. President Joe Biden today signed an executive order that will block the bulk transfer of Americans’ personal data to countries of concern. The White House announced the move today. Engadget reported that the countries of concern at the focus of the executive order are Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela. The executive order ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls inaccurate Gemini responses ‘unacceptable,’ promises fix
Google LLC Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai has told employees that the company will make “structural changes” to address the errors in Gemini’s image generation feature. Pichai detailed the plan in an internal memo distributed late Tuesday, Semafor reported today. The executive also called the error, which caused Gemini to generate inaccurate images of racially diverse ...
SambaNova debuts ‘composition of experts’ AI model with 1T+ parameters
Well-funded chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. today introduced Samba-1, a generative artificial intelligence model that features more than 1 trillion parameters. Parameters are configuration settings that determine how a neural network goes about crunching data. The more such settings an AI system possesses, the broader the range of tasks it can perform. Samba-1 is described ...
Apple reportedly scraps ‘Project Titan’ electric car project
Apple Inc. has reportedly canceled Project Titan, a long-running internal initiative through which it hoped to develop an electric car. Bloomberg reported the decision today, citing an internal memo. It’s believed that the Apple business unit responsible for Project Titan had nearly 2,000 employees. Many of the staffers who worked on the project will reportedly ...
Thoughtworks shares plunge 28%+ on fourth-quarter earnings miss
Shares of Thoughtworks Holding Inc. dropped more than 28% today after the technology consultancy posted fourth-quarter results that missed analyst expectations. Chicago-based Thoughtworks helps enterprises modernize their information technology infrastructure. Its professionals can optimize a company’s database environment, build new applications and take on other software projects. Thoughtworks also helps enterprises maintain their existing software: ...