Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.

Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking

Vocci’s lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions

The AI Inference Revolution Is Here
The AI Inference Revolution Is Here

Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly a…

Monako Glass turns smart glasses into the strangest new coding workstation yet

Monako Glass puts Linux and AI coding-agent support into smart glasses, but its future depends on whether it can make developer work easier without pretending to replace a laptop.

I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Like other AI wearables, Amazon’s Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive “universal” AI interface

Brett Adcock’s new AI startup is now valued at $6 billion by its investors.

Nothing’s AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds

The glasses will reportedly feature cameras, microphones and speakers, and will connect to a smartphone and the cloud to process AI queries.

How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End
How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End

If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. And nowhere is that more true than in the market for computer memory. Demand, and profitability, for the type of DRAM used to feed GPUs and other accelerators in …