Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases ‘personal superintelligence’
Meta plans to purchase potentially up to $100 billion worth of AMD chips, enough to drive roughly six gigawatts of data center power demand, the …
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Conduent data breach grows, affecting at least 25M people
The spillover from a ransomware attack on one of the largest government contractors in the United States keeps getting bigger: more than 25 million people …
Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according …
VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report
In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN appliances …
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing
On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and Mango AI, which works on improving ad …
Finnish quantum unicorn IQM set to go public
Finnish unicorn IQM today announced plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), valuing the company at approximately $1.8 billion. The move …
Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments
Xflow, an Indian fintech startup, has secured backing from both Stripe and PayPal Ventures in a $16.6 million funding round. The investment comes as the …
Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and other markets
After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced on Monday that it’s …
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune …
Google’s Cloud AI leads on the three frontiers of model capability
As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex AI, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI. It gives him …