The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no team
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what’s next is less clear. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
Categoria: AI
The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China, but how?
There’s a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush” marches on. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs
The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating — but many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence
The smartphone era created an attention crisis — slow tech is fixing it
“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention… They’re down for whatever helps them do that.” Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence