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In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, according to Reuters, which cites people close to the deal. The deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million worth
Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’ Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert. The head of product at Hugging Face called Manus “the most impressive AI tool I’ve ever tried.” AI policy researcher Dean Ball described
Japan’s service robot market projected to triple in five years Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to supplement their workforce, according to Bloomberg. Research firm Fuji Keizai projects the country’s service robot market to nearly triple by 2030, to ¥400
Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obligation’ to pursue de-extinction tech The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at SXSW that the company has no plans to create a real-life
Tammy Nam joins AI-powered ad startup Creatopy as CEO Creatopy, a startup that uses AI to automate the creation of digital ads, has brought on a new CEO: Tammy Nam. Nam was previously COO and CMO at photo-editing startup PicsArt, and before that the CEO of video streamer Viki. She
Apple’s smart home hub reportedly delayed by Siri challenges Apple announced this week that the “more personalized” version of Siri that it promised last year has been delayed — and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, that’s also postponed the launch of the company’s planned smart home hub. In a statement,
Greek fintech Viva Wallet seeks end to long-running JP Morgan legal battle Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/viva-wallet-jpmorgan-injunction-news/
Encrypted nudes app Linq raises $1.1m to stamp out revenge porn Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nudes-encrypted-app-linq-revenge-porn/
New DOJ proposal still calls for Google to divest Chrome, but allows for AI investments The US Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser Chrome, according to a Friday court filing. The DOJ first proposed that Google should sell Chrome last year, under then-President
Google scrubs mentions of ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’ from responsible AI team webpage Google has quietly updated the webpage for its Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology (RAI-HCT) team, the team charged with conducting research into AI safety, fairness, and explainability, to scrub mentions of “diversity” and “equity.” A previous version