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Report: Apple’s M5 chips will use TSMC’s N3P process and 2.5D packaging technologies
Apple Inc.’s upcoming M5 line of Mac chips will be made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s three-nanometer N3P process, 9to5Mac reported today. The publication attributed the information to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a track record of successfully predicting product launches from the company. It’s believed some of the upcoming M5 chips will also use ...
Xerox to acquire rival printer maker Lexmark for $1.53B
Xerox Holdings Corp. today announced plans to buy Lexmark International Inc., one of its main competitors in the printer market, for $1.53 billion. The company plans to finance the deal with a combination of cash and debt financing. It’s buying Lexmark from Ninestar Corp., PAG Asia Capital and Shanghai Shouda Investment Centre. Founded more than a ...
Researchers open-source Genesis simulation platform for training robots
A research group on Thursday released Genesis, an artificial intelligence simulation engine designed to ease robot development. The group included more than 50 researchers from about a dozen universities. Nvidia Corp. contributed as well along with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, an industrial-academic AI institute staffed by MIT and IBM Corp. experts. Robots often rely ...
OpenAI details o3 reasoning model with record-breaking benchmark scores
OpenAI today detailed o3, its new flagship large language model for reasoning tasks. The model’s introduction caps off a 12-day product announcement series that started with the launch of a new ChatGPT plan. ChatGPT Pro, as the $200 per month subscription is called, features a predecessor of the new o3 LLM. OpenAI also released its ...
Anysphere reportedly raises $100M for its AI-driven Cursor code editor
Anysphere Inc., a startup with a popular code editor powered by artificial intelligence, has raised $100 million in fresh funding. TechCrunch reported the investment on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Anysphere is now reportedly worth $2.4 billion, up from $400 million four months ago. The new cash infusion was led by Thrive Capital with ...
AI-powered 3D modeling startup Backflip closes $30M round
Backflip Inc., a startup helping engineers create 3D models faster, today announced that it has closed a $30 million early-stage funding round. NEA and Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A raise. They were joined by a Who’s Who of angel investors: Microsoft Corp. Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, Android founder Rich Miner and Ashish Vaswani, ...
Google debuts reasoning-optimized Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model
Google LLC today released a new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, that’s optimized for reasoning tasks. The company says the algorithm can tackle problems across fields such as programming, physics and math. It’s based on another Google model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, that debuted earlier this month. The latter algorithm is positioned as ...
AI world model startup Decart reels in $32M
Artificial intelligence developer Decart.AI Inc. today announced that it has closed a $32 million early-stage funding round led by Benchmark. The Series A investment also included the participation of Sequoia Capital and Zeev Ventures, which provided the startup with $21 million in seed financing just a few weeks earlier. The latest cash infusion reportedly boosted ...
Overture makes its open-source transportation dataset generally available
The Overture Maps Foundation, a consortium backed by several major tech firms, today made its transportation dataset generally available. The dataset contains information about more than 53 million miles of roads worldwide. The consortium envisions companies using it to power ride-sharing apps, logistics software, navigation tools and a range of other services. The Overture Maps ...
Supreme Court to hear arguments on looming TikTok ban
The U.S. Supreme Court will review a law that requires TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. to sell the app or face a ban. The Justices will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan. 10, according to an order released today. The legislation requiring ByteDance to offload TikTok or face a ban is set to take ...