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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab
Sunshine, the consumer AI startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in 2018, has seen brighter days.The small startup is shutting down, and its assets are being sold to a new entity incorporated by Mayer called Dazzle, according to an email viewed by WIRED. Mayer sent the email to…
Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models.“We believe will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to…
Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
Louisiana planning authorities have voted to rush through approval for three natural gas turbines to power Meta’s massive new data center in Richland Parish. When it’s done, the 4-million-square-foot facility will require more than 2 gigawatts of energy to run.On August 20, Louisiana’s Public Service Commission voted four to one…
Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market
Though REX and Osprey did not launch the dogecoin ETF under the new ruleset, instead taking an alternative route involving separate legal provisions to ensure it won the race to market, analysts expect the SEC’s new listing standards to tee up a proliferation of crypto ETFs in the US. Under…
A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software
Still, developers say that bringing code from Nvidia’s CUDA to ROCm isn’t a smooth process, which means they typically focus on building for just one chip vendor.“ROCm is amazing, it’s open source, but it runs on one vendor’s hardware,” Lattner told the crowd at AMD’s Advancing AI event in June.…
Amazon Will Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle FTC Suit That Alleged ‘Dark Patterns’ in Prime Sign-Ups
In the six-year time frame established in the settlement, anyone who “unsuccessfully attempted” to cancel their Prime subscription online is eligible to get paid up to $51 from Amazon. People who signed up for Prime during that same period can also get up to $51 if they signed up through…
Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab
Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is now reporting to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum who has overseen the buzzy AI effort since July, according to multiple sources.…
Donald Trump Is Saying There’s a TikTok Deal. China Isn’t
US efforts to ban TikTok started during Trump’s first term in 2020. Months before he left office, Trump threatened to ban TikTok and another Chinese app WeChat. The Biden administration rescinded Trump’s executive orders on the topic but continued to scrutinize TikTok. The US congress eventually passed the Protecting Americans…
YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by…
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that…
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