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How to turn off AI in your Google Docs
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of...
AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases
It’s been called RAMageddon: AI’s insatiable demand for hardware has caused a worldwide shortage of memory chips. Now outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook is warning its customers that your next Mac, iPhone, or iPad could be more expensive thanks to surging memory and storage...
AWS enters the context layer race with a graph that learns from agents, not manual curation
Building a context layer between enterprise data stores and AI agents is bespoke work, with no standard service to automate or maintain the graphs over time. Amazon is making a direct play to change that.Amazon on Wednesday entered the space, announcing a series of...
Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming; now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on consumer and prosumer technology, he has built a portfolio spanning entertainment,...
Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors
Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in the largest IPO ever. SpaceX announced the appointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday....
After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive
Snap’s long-awaited AR glasses, Specs, didn’t have the best debut. The company’s stock hasn’t been on the healthiest trajectory lately. It’s dropped 30% over the past year. Following Specs’ launch, it sank more than 5% — falling from $5.86 a share on Tuesday to a low...
NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI
Loading the player… Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some...
FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement
A new lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a showcase of how hard it’s become to police the app stores for scammy apps. The suit alleges that a company known as Genesis Tech defrauded consumers and routed revenues overseas through the use of...
World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
At the G7 Summit on Wednesday, world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concerns that the U.S. could cut off their countries’ access to top American AI models at any time. Macron warned G7 leaders and top AI...
Frontier AI models don’t just delete document content — they rewrite it, and the errors are nearly impossible to catch
As large language models become more capable, users are tempted to delegate knowledge tasks where models process documents on their behalf and provide the finished results. But how far can you trust the model to stay faithful to the content of your documents when it...
Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center
Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they are sitting on...
Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are
With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some...
This is what some the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives
Malware research group vx-underground, which says it has the largest collection of malware source code, said in a post on X that its archive of data amounts to about 30 terabytes. A reply by Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, an online service that scans files...
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand
Fervo Energy, the geothermal energy startup, saw its market valuation surpass $10 billion in its public market debut, an increase driven by demand for AI data centers — and the energy that can power them. Fervo had raised $1.89 billion in an upsized initial public...
X launches a History tab for bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles
X is turning itself into more of a “save-it-for-later” app with the launch of a new History tab that collects your bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles all in one place for easy access. Initially available on iOS, X head of product, Nikita Bier, describes the new...
Instagram’s new ‘Instants’ feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal
Instagram announced on Wednesday that it’s globally launching “Instants,” a new feature for sharing authentic, disappearing photos after testing it with select users. The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their Close Friends or mutual followers that...
Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M
Rivian’s spinoff company Mind Robotics has raised another $400 million, just two months after raising $500 million, as it works to develop industrial robotics that can further automate factory operations. The funding round, first reported by the Wall Street Journal,...
Who trusts Sam Altman?
In May 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was sworn in and testifying before Congress about the regulation of artificial intelligence. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana heard his ideas about licensing advanced models and asked if Altman might be qualified to run a...
Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world models that could be used to operate physical robotics or model objects in physical space. Unlike large language models, there isn’t an easy source of data for those models,...
Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies. To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business, a new suite of services designed for customers who less resemble Walmart and Starbucks and more resemble the local hardware store or...
Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia
Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories. In a statement sent to media...
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iPhone 8 Vs. Samsung Galaxy S8
2017 has been a year of big smartphone war which seems to be unending. The major tussle has been between two leading mobile phone manufacturers in the world- Apple and Samsung. Samsung's Galaxy 8 has taken head on with Apple's iPhone 8 with both devices winning a...
Electric Vehicles Are About to Hit the Mainstream, Thanks to Tesla
Electric vehicles have been part of the public psyche for a long time now. In fact, electric vehicles originate from the 1830s, when inventors began experimenting with different applications on trains and carriages. It has taken a long time for these concepts to find...
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