Accelerated Understanding Inc, co-founded by Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, unveiled an AI model that can process 5 trillion data points in a single prompt, about 5 million times more than Anthr…
A new satirical management game, Data Centre Slumlord, casts players as the CEO of Geriatric Grid Holdings, a hyperscale AI infrastructure company, and challenges them to build data centres while mana…
Nvidia Corp. is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI Inc. at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, a more than 50% jump from the $20 billion valuation the AI search startup finalized about a year ago, acc…
Nvidia is in active discussions to invest in Perplexity, an AI search startup, in a deal that would value the company above $30 billion, according to The Information and Reuters. Perplexity's annualiz…
Nvidia is in discussions with Perplexity AI about a licensing agreement that could value the AI search startup at over $30 billion, a roughly 57x jump from its approximately $520 million Series B valu…
A growing number of clients are seeking help to fix 'vibe-coded' apps, according to Konstantin Klyagin, founder of Redwerk and QAwerk, who said his company has been offering 'vibe code cleanup' since …
Amazon announced plans to significantly ramp up its Prime Air drone delivery service, aiming for airborne deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year. The drones can transpo…
A new analysis by Thomas Ferguson, Servaas Storm, and Jie Chen at the Institute for New Economic Thinking finds that U.S. workers' share of national income hit one of its lowest levels on record, with…
Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos, plans to build a data center in Pecos County, Texas, powered by 35 natural gas turbines generating 7.65 GW, which would release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually,…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees during an internal townhall that AI productivity gains should be reinvested into building more products for the company's billions of users, not taken as extra …
A Gizmodo explainer distinguishes surveillance pricing from dynamic pricing, surge pricing, and algorithmic pricing, noting that New York has passed a law requiring disclosure when prices are set by a…
A $1 trillion capital investment by Big Tech companies since the start of the artificial-intelligence boom has been directed into data centers, chips, and energy systems, despite AI not being profitab…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice to build the now-$159 billion payments company, told Gen Z at Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a poor intu…
Jeff Bezos filed to sell 15 million Amazon shares worth approximately $4.07 billion on August 4, one day after Amazon crossed the $3 trillion market capitalization threshold on August 3, becoming the …
Jeff Bezos, through his investment firm Bezos Expeditions, has backed Cambridge-based AI startup CuspAI in a $450 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates, v…
Amazon.com, which recently surpassed Walmart Inc. for the No. 1 spot on the Fortune 500 and Global 500, is pouring unprecedented sums into artificial intelligence, but founder Jeff Bezos says the comp…
CuspAI, a Cambridge-based startup founded in 2024, closed a $450 million Series B funding round on July 20, bringing its valuation to $2.6 billion and total funding past $580 million, with backing fro…
OpenAI chief economist Ronnie Chatterji said copying the careers of successful people is bad advice because their paths are shaped by specific economic moments and often omit struggles. Speaking on th…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI safety executive, resigned Tuesday citing seven months of recurring illness worsened by startup stress. In a note shared on X, she wro…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenged Elon Musk to pledge his entire $1 trillion fortune to charity by 2036, and Musk replied on X, "I am actually going to do something along these l…