OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a not…

Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and Davi…

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpasse…

Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead
Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead

Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked whether the gains could be channelled into reviving “Met…

NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI

NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING, and Cipio Partners also participated. The compa…

His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades
His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades

The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge …

Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP. Researchers found three ways it doesn’t
Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP. Researchers found three ways it doesn’t

Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP address. Researchers have found three ways it does not. The paid feature, part of an iCloud+ subscription, masks your real IP address while you browse in Safari. But three flaws in WebKit, Apple’s brows…

Revolut is valued at $115bn. Its founder’s new share deal targets $500bn
Revolut is valued at $115bn. Its founder’s new share deal targets $500bn

Nik Storonsky wants a bigger slice of Revolut, and he has picked an ambitious price. The cofounder and chief executive is in talks over a new share award, the Financial Times reported. It would grow his stake if the fintech reaches a $500 billion valua…

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund lost most of its value. Now it’s back with $400M.
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund lost most of its value. Now it’s back with $400M.

One of the most talked-about funds in AI is wagering again, barely a week after it nearly blew up. Situational Awareness, the firm founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner, has returned to investing with a $400M bet. The return is remarkable given what just ha…

Google’s $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife
Google’s $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife

Google’s biggest bet in India is meeting resistance on the ground. Its $15bn data-centre project in Visakhapatnam has run into mounting opposition over water use and the wildlife living beside it. The project is enormous by any measure. Built with Gaut…