A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’s request to throw the case out. Apple won part of its expedited discovery on Tuesday, and was refused part of…
The Detroit Smart Parking Lab is working with startups and other companies to advance mobility.
A senior Microsoft cloud boss has asked team leaders to find ways to cut costs by at least 20%, The Information reported, citing people who know about the plans. We have not independently verified the report, and Microsoft disputes it. “Azure leadershi…
Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. The memorandum covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research o…
Bumble has agreed to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings in an all-cash deal valuing the dating app at about $1.3 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Ithaca will pay $6.05 per Bumble Class A share, about 138% more than the stock’s closing price on Octob…
Anthropic’s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei set out in July, when he wrote that open-weight models without dangerous…
Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that streamed games will become a $38B market by 2035 and that the dedicated console will stop being a mass-market product. The case depends on surplus GPU capacity pushing compute prices down late this decade, which ha…
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety rese…
Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety. Anthropic has asked th…