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AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company
Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming a company called Arena Intelligence Inc., reports Bloomberg.
In a blog post published Thursday, Chatbot Arena…
TSMC denies it’s talking to Intel about chip-making joint venture
A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Daniel Ceng…
xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details from past…
Former CISA chief Krebs leaves SentinelOne after Trump exec order
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen…
Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads
Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small…
Spotify restores service after Wednesday outage
The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 4, 2023.Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersSpotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector.The company posted an…
Chip equipment giant flags tariff uncertainty
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday missed order expectations and said that uncertainty from new U.S. trade restrictions may affect demand for its critical chipmaking machines.ASML…
Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps
Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.
Called Grok Studio, the feature was announced on X late Tuesday. It’s available for both free and…
Nvidia says it will record $5.5 billion charge for H20 GPUs to China
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address during the Nvidia GTC 2025 at SAP Center on March 18, 2025 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesNvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about…
Lucid Gravity First Drive: An electric SUV that doesn’t make compromises
Lucid has spent years working on its second EV — a plush van-like SUV designed to be the category killer that could take market share from the likes of other luxury EV and internal combustion people haulers like the Rivian R1S, Cadillac…
U.S. is unable to replace rare earths supply from China, warns CSIS
Workers transporting soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, Oct. 31, 2010.Stringer | ReutersAs China imposes export controls on rare earth elements, the U.S. would be unable to…
South Korea announces over $23 billion for chip sector as Trump tariffs on semiconductor imports…
Visitors look at the display of SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chips at the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korea announced Tuesday a…
RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active…
Meta acquisitions were ‘buy-or-bury scheme’
Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook "panicked" when making the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as smartphone use took off."It saw companies like Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing…
Bill Gates-backed Arnergy to expand solar access in Nigeria with $18M as demand surges
Demand for solar energy in power-starved Nigeria has soared in the last decade thanks to worsening grid reliability and rising fuel costs. That’s drawn investor interest to Arnergy, a cleantech startup meeting that need. The company…
Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in Europe, UK
The PlayStation DualSense controller and PlayStation 5 console.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesSony hiked the price of its flagship PlayStation 5 console in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, citing a "challenging economic…
Here’s how much a ‘Made in the USA’ iPhone would cost
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during a "First Tool-In" ceremony at the TSMC facility under construction in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.Caitlin O'Hara | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhen President…
Access to future AI models in OpenAI’s API may require a verified ID
OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models, according to a support page published to the company’s website last week.
The verification process, called…