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Appeals court ruling kills off efforts to restore FCC net neutrality rules
A U.S. appeals court today ruled the Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules first implemented by former President Barack Obama. The ruling ends a decade-plus-long effort by Democrats to gain more oversight over the internet. In today’s ruling, the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Meta plans to flood social media with AI-generated users and content
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to flood Facebook and other social media platforms with artificial intelligence-powered user profiles, one of its top executives has said. Over the last year, Meta has been developing and promoting various new AI tools across Facebook, Instagram and other sites. It has rolled out AI chatbots in the Messenger app, and in ...
Encode and the ‘godfather of AI’ join Elon Musk’s bid to block OpenAI’s for-profit switch
Encode, a nonprofit organization that co-sponsored California’s failed SB 1047 AI safety legislation, is joining forces with Elon Musk to oppose OpenAI’s plan to repivot as a fully for-profit company. The youth-led advocacy group that represents people in dozens of countries said today it’s filing an amicus brief in support of SpaceX Corp.’s and Tesla ...
TikTok parent ByteDance plans to spend $7B on cloud-based GPUs this year to fuel its AI ambitions
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. reportedly has a plan to get around tough U.S. restrictions on the export of advanced computer chips to China. The company is said to be planning to spend a whopping $7 billion on Nvidia Corp.’s most powerful graphics processing units to fuel the development of cutting edge artificial intelligence models. ...
Alibaba Cloud announces aggressive LLM price cuts in bid to dominate China’s AI market
Alibaba Cloud said Tuesday that it’s slashing the price of access to its most advanced large language models by up to 85% in a bid to generate more interest from Chinese businesses. The move was announced via WeChat and first reported by the South China Morning Post. According to that report, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen-VL-Max model ...
Employer.com acquires troubled bookkeeping startup Bench, ending chaos for customers
Just days after shocking and angering some customers over the manner of its sudden shutdown, the accounting software startup Bench Accounting Inc. says it’s now being acquired by Employer.com Inc. The acquisition was announced in blog posts on both companies’ websites today, with Bench telling customers that their service will “continue seamlessly with the platform you’ve always ...
Mexico to launch emergency app for citizens facing deportation from US
Mexican officials say they’re developing a new emergency mobile application that’s meant to aid citizens in the U.S. who fear imminent detention by immigration authorities. The app, which was announced by Mexico Foreign Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente, will go live before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump moves back into the White House later this ...
US proposes tougher cybersecurity rules for healthcare organizations
Healthcare providers in the United States might be forced to beef up their cybersecurity practices in the wake of new proposals made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It proposes new measures that would require healthcare services providers to implement multifactor authentication and encryption on patient data, in order to safeguard such ...
StruxHub raises $4M to streamline construction operations management
Construction operations software startup StruxHub Inc. said today it has closed on a $4 million seed funding round led by Brick and Mortar Ventures. Others, including FJ Labs, Holcim and a host of angel investors, also participated in the raise. StruxHub has created a seamless, all in one management platform that aims to streamline the ...
Leaks reveal beefed-up specifications for Nvidia’s next-gen GB300 AI server
Details of Nvidia Corp.’s next generation artificial intelligence server, the GB300 platform, have been leaked by Chinese media, and it’s expected to deliver some big improvements in terms of memory, performance, connectivity and cooling. The world’s most valuable chipmaker is expected to announce the GB300 AI server at its annual GTC event, slated to take ...