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Japanese chip fab startup Rapidus reportedly seeking $700M investment
Rapidus Corp., a startup building a two-nanometer chip fab in Japan, is reportedly seeking new funding to support its construction efforts. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the Tokyo-based company is looking to raise 100 billion yen, or about $700 million, from investors. Rapid reportedly hopes to secure four-fifths of the sum from its ...
YouTube deletes Tenet Media’s channel following US indictment over Russian disinformation
YouTube has deleted the channel of Tenet Media, a right-wing content production company that recent media reports have linked to a Russian influence operation. A spokesperson for the Google LLC unit told The Washington Post today that the move is part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.” YouTube has also taken down four ...
UK tentatively finds that Google’s display ad unit violates competition rules
The UK’s antitrust watchdog has tentatively found that Google LLC’s business practices in the display advertising market are anticompetitive. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, published its findings today. In conjunction, the watchdog sent Google a statement of objections over the business practices that were found to violate antitrust rules. Such a statement can ...
Intel reportedly weighing options for Mobileye stake, networking unit
Intel Corp. is reportedly considering offloading a part of its stake in Mobileye, a major chip supplier to the auto sector. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the company could sell shares of Mobileye, formally Mobile Global Inc., via public markets or directly to a third party. Intel is also said to be “exploring ...
Cadet Blizzard hacking group linked to unit of Russia’s GRU
A hacking group known as Cadet Blizzard has been revealed to associated with a unit of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. A group of government agencies from the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada, Ukraine and a number of other countries disclosed the discovery today. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment against five ...
US, UK, EU and others sign landmark AI safety treaty
More than a dozen countries have signed a treaty designed to ensure that artificial intelligence models are used in a safe manner. The development was announced today at an event in Vilnius, Lithuania. The treaty in question is known as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the ...
Nvidia joins $160M investment into data center builder Applied Digital
Applied Digital Corp., a Nasdaq-listed company that builds data centers for cloud providers and other organizations, has raised $160 million through a private placement. A private placement is a transaction in which shares are issued directly to investors rather than via a stock exchange. Applied Digital said in today’s announcement of the deal that it ...
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 ...