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Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
Five weird details from Anthropic’s IPO filing
Anthropic has finally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, a document designed to give investors a look under the hood of its…
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a…
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt…
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to…
Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund its AI buildout
AI summary Meta intends to raise as much as $95 billion by issuing new shares to pay for its AI infrastructure. The largest portion, $60 billion, is to come from gradual open-market sales of new Class C shares without voting rights, probably starting in early 2027 at the soonest, which keeps Mark Zuckerberg's control intact. Another $22.5 billion is to be raised through Class A common stock, plus $12.5 billion from depositary shares tied to preferred stock that turns into common stock by August 2029. Broadcom, AMD and Nvidia have shown non-binding interest in purchasing as much as $5 billion of Meta stock.
Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion
Tech firm announces two-part fundraising after Elon Musk warns hundreds of AI startups face collapse Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has…
Anthropic files for potentially record-breaking stock market valuation in key test for AI industry
Market debut of firm behind Claude chatbot will be one of largest in US history, a test of AI boom’s financial viability…
Uncertainty Evaluation to Support Safety of the Intended Functionality Analysis for Determining the Applicability of Performance Targets Across Triggering Conditions in ML-Based LiDAR Object Detection
For safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) analysis according to ISO 21448, a machine learning object detector for light…
Anthropic files for stock market IPO; Meta announces $95bn fundraising drive to pay for AI expansion – as it happened
Meta says share sale will support its “continued investment in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence”, as Elon Musk…
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial…
Solidigm pulled its IPO and neocloud credit spreads are blowing out ahead of hyperscaler earnings
Solidigm scrapped its IPO this week, and credit default swap spreads across neocloud companies have been widening while their…
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
People are starting to use AI for FB Marketplace listings and it’s making me mad
A leather couch was listed. Pristine condition. Little wrinkling. Showed up and the couch was so worn down. I wouldn’t have…
Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or…
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems…
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice…
Monetizing Intelligence: Advertising and Subscription Design on LLM Platforms
Large language model (LLM) platforms introducing advertising must decide how much capability ad revenue should fund and what…
Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps
Amazon Quick Sight layer maps now support Point and LineString geometry from the same GeoJSON workflow, so you can plot store…
New Tools for the Admins Who Build Communities on Forum
We're introducing new tools to Forum to make it easier for admins to manage Groups.
Acquisition for Spherical-Linear Bayesian Optimization on the Cube
Recent work demonstrated that executing Bayesian Optimization (BO) using simply a linear surrogate with a clever transformation…
OpenAI lowers valuation target, raises up to $30 billion
OpenAI is closing in on a new funding round of up to $30 billion but has lowered its valuation target to get there. The article…
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