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Meta recovering from outage that took Facebook, Instagram and Threads offline
Meta Platforms Inc. experienced an outage this morning that made Facebook, Instagram and Threads inaccessible worldwide for about two hours. The first user reports of downtime started emerging around 10 a.m. EST. Meta confirmed the outage shortly thereafter, stating in a note on its status page that “we are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. ...
Baseten nabs $40M for its cloud-based AI inference platform
Baseten Labs Inc., a startup making it easier for developers to run artificial intelligence models in production, today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round. IVP and Spark Capital led the investment with participation from several existing backers. According to Forbes, the Series B raise values Baseten at more than $200 million. ...
EU fines Apple €1.84B over App Store’s anti-steering rules
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, today issued a €1.84 billion fine to Apple Inc. over the App Store’s so-called anti-steering rules. Officials have also ordered the iPhone maker to change the provisions in question. In a blog post responding to the development, Apple stated that it plans to make the changes within ...
Anthropic debuts Claude 3 model series with ‘near-human’ capabilities in some areas
Anthropic PBC today introduced a new family of large language models, the Claude 3 series, that it says can outperform GPT-4 and Google LLC’s Gemini Ultra. The series includes three models that vary in their sophistication and price. The most advanced LLM, Claude 3 Opus, is touted as having “near-human levels of comprehension and fluency ...
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 ...