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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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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…
Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
My evidence that we're onto something is we've seen a handful of content deals, and the company that has gotten the best deal by far is Reddit. We know from their public filings that last year they got close to $140 million a year from Google and OpenAI.Hmm.If you compare…
Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here
Michael Calore: Yeah. That's a whole other topic.Kylie Robison: Yes, it is. Will, what do you recommend?Will Knight: I'm going to recommend what I think is a genuinely useful home robot. I have a cat, Leono. He's very nice but will bring in various animals, dead or alive, into our…
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