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Report: DOGE staffers ‘effectively shut down’ CFPB
The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has reportedly curtailed the activities of a federal agency that regulates financial services companies. Bloomberg reported the development today, citing sources familiar with the matter. The agency that has drawn DOGE’s attention is the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB. It was set up in 2011 to ...
France announces €109B investment to boost AI ecosystem
French President Emmanuel Macron today announced an investment initiative that will inject €109 billion, or $112 billion, into the country’s artificial intelligence ecosystem. Macron (pictured) detailed the plan on occasion of the AI Action Summit being held this week in Paris. The two-day artificial intelligence event is expected to draw hundreds of government officials, academics ...
Report: UK ordered Apple to implement backdoor in iCloud encryption system
U.K. officials have ordered Apple Inc. to implement a backdoor in its iCloud file storage service, the Washington Post reported today. The backdoor would enable the government to access Apple users’ encrypted files. If implemented, it would affect consumers in not only the U.K. but also all the other markets where iCloud is available. Under ...
Ilya Sutskever’s SSI reportedly raising new funding at $20B+ valuation
Safe Superintelligence Inc., a high-profile artificial intelligence startup started by a team that includes former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, is reportedly seeking to raise new capital at a valuation of at least $20 billion. Reuters today cited sources as saying that the company is in talks with both new and existing investors. SSI’s existing ...
DOGE reportedly seeking to develop ‘GSAi’ government chatbot
The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is reportedly working on a chatbot dubbed GSAi to make federal workers more productive. Wired on Thursday cited sources as saying that the chatbot is being developed for the U.S General Services Administration. The GSA is an agency with about 12,000 employees that manages federal buildings and ...
US lawmakers introduce bill to ban DeepSeek on federal devices
U.S. lawmakers today introduced a bill that would prohibit federal employees from using DeepSeek’s app on government devices. The proposed legislation is known as the No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act. According to Ars Technica, it would ban DeepSeek within 60 days of going into effect. The bill was written by U.S. representatives Josh Gottheimer ...
TrueFoundry nabs $19M for its AI model management platform
TrueFoundry Inc., a startup with a platform for managing artificial intelligence workloads, today announced that it has raised $19 million in funding. Intel Capital led the Series A round. Eniac Ventures, Surge and Jump Capital chipped in as well. TrueFoundry says that its institutional backers were joined by several angel investors, including former Cohesity Inc. ...
New LLM developed for under $50 outperforms OpenAI’s o1-preview
Researchers have developed a large language model that can perform some tasks better than OpenAI’s o1-preview at a tiny fraction of the cost. The researchers, from Stanford and the University of Washington, first detailed their model in a paper published last Friday. TechCrunch reported on the project today. The algorithm, named s1-32B, is available on GitHub. ...
DevAI raises $6M to automate infrastructure management with AI agents
DevAI Solutions Inc., an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Cisco Systems Inc. executives, today announced that it has raised $6 million in funding. The oversubscribed seed round was led by Emergence Capital. The venture capital firm has previously backed major enterprise tech firms such as Box Inc. and Salesforce Inc. DevAI says that the ...
Mirantis open-sources k0rdent Kubernetes management platform
Mirantis Inc. today introduced k0rdent, an open-source platform designed to help enterprises manage their Kubernetes clusters. The company has released the tool’s code on GitHub. Google LLC created Kubernetes to ease the task of managing containerized applications. The platform automatically recovers from infrastructure outages, distributed workloads across servers and performs related tasks. But managing Kubernetes ...