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France’s answer to Stargate: Macron announces AI investment
French President Emmanuel Macron greets journalists after meetings with guests at the Elysee Palace before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Yara NardYara Nardi |…
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
Google Maps officially updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Monday.
Among many other executive orders, President Donald Trump decreed on the day of his inauguration that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed…
Google Calendar removes start of Black History, Women’s History months
The Google Calendar logo is displayed on a tablet.Igor Golovniov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesGoogle's popular online and mobile calendars no longer include reference to the first day of Black History Month or Women's…
AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal merges startups Harness, Traceable
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of startup Harness.HarnessJyoti Bansal knows about weird acquisitions.Eight years ago, his software company, AppDynamics, was on the doorstep of a blockbuster IPO. A day before the offering, Cisco swooped…
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns policymakers not to let sci-fi sensationalism shape AI rules
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford researcher who also founded World Labs, was invited to the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday to give the opening speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit which is taking place this week.
While she…
Amazon scrubs DEI mention from its annual report
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022.David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmazon has removed any references to diversity and inclusion from its most recent…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology…
Deepseek’s AI model ‘the best work’ out of China: Google Deepmind CEO
Google DeepMind co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis gives a conference during the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024.Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty…
Trump delays ending of de minimis trade exemption targeting China
Employees package and sort express parcels at an e-commerce company on Nov. 1, 2024, around the Double 11 Shopping Festival in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump signed an…
Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook
Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report,…
Affirm shares soar 22% on revenue beat, surprise profit during holiday
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho.Drew Angerer | Getty…
Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over.
Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S.…
Doximity shares pop 36% on revenue beat, rosy guidance
Piotr Swat | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesDoximity shares closed up 36% on Friday, a day after the company reported fiscal third-quarter results that beat Wall Street's expectations for revenue and guidance.Doximity is a digital platform…
Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried about competitor DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that took Silicon Valley by storm with its R1 model. And his concerns could be more serious than the typical ones raised about DeepSeek sending…
Hims & Hers faces lawmaker scrutiny over ‘misleading’ Super Bowl ad
Hims & Hers is facing scrutiny from lawmakers over an advertisement for its weight loss offerings that's slated to run during the Super Bowl on Sunday.Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., wrote a letter to the U.S.…
Anduril in talks to raise money at $28 billion valuation
Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is planning to raise up to $2.5 billion in the…
Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge
Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons.
“I’m very glad that Google has changed its stance,” Ng said during an on-stage…
Pinterest shares rocket 19% on strong revenue and user growth
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPinterest shares surged 19% after beating Wall Street's fourth-quarter sales estimates and showing robust user growth from a year ago.The image-sharing company reported revenues of $1.15 billion,…