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OpenAI is expected to build a data center in India that will use more than 1 gigawatt of power. The ChatGPT developer is searching for local companies with which it can partner on the project, Bloomberg reported today. OpenAI will need the …
US makes it harder for chipmakers to run fabs in China amid new Alibaba processor reports
The U.S. Commerce Department is making it more difficult for chipmakers to operate their fabs in China, Reuters reported today. The move affects Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory suppliers. The latter company makes much of …
FriendliAI raises $20M in funding to accelerate AI inference workloads
FriendliAI Corp., a startup that helps developers speed up their artificial intelligence models, has raised $20 million in funding. Capstone Partners led the seed extension round. FriendliAI detailed in its announcement of the raise on Thursday that Sierra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, KDB …
Autodesk’s stock jumps 9%+ on strong earnings results
Shares of Autodesk Inc. jumped more than 9% in after-hours trading today after it posted second-quarter results that topped expectations across the board and it also raised its full-year guidance. Autodesk’s flagship product is an application called AutoCAD that engineers use to design …
OpenAI and Microsoft debut new voice models
OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. today introduced two artificial intelligence models optimized to generate speech. OpenAI’s new algorithm, gpt-realtime, is described as its most capable voice model. The AI produces more natural sounding speech than the ChatGPT developer’s earlier entries into the category. …
Maisa AI reels in $25M for its AI agent development platform
Maisa AI Inc., a startup with a platform for building artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $25 million in seed funding. Early Spotify Technology SA backer Creandum led the investment. It was joined by Forgepoint Capital International, NFX and …
Uniphore buys Orby AI and Autonom8 to extend its automation capabilities
Uniphore Technologies Inc. has bought Orby AI Inc. and Autonom8 Inc., two startups that develop software for automating repetitive business tasks. The company announced the deals today without disclosing the financial terms. Uniphore was valued at $2.5 billion following its most recent …
Report: Vercel is raising new funding at $9B valuation amid AI growth
Front-end development startup Vercel Inc. is reportedly raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding. Sources told Bloomberg today that Accel is leading the investment. The cash infusion is expected to value Vercel at about $9 billion, nearly triple what it …
Salesloft breach compromises ‘numerous’ Salesforce environments
Hackers have used a chatbot developed by Salesloft Inc. to access a large number of Salesforce environments and download their contents. Salesloft and Google LLC disclosed the breach last Thursday. The search giant determined that the threat actor behind the hacking campaign, …
Whistleblower says DOGE copied Social Security data to insecure cloud environment
A senior official at the U.S. Social Security Administration today filed a whistleblower complaint over DOGE’s access to agency data. The official, SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges, is represented by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project. The whistleblower complaint is addressed to …