At its Build conference, Microsoft sought to show its key role in the AI industry, with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang making virtual appearances — Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang's appearances at Build event reflect software giant's grip on AI industry
London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro — Converge, a concrete sensor and AI startup, has closed $22 million in the second tranche of a Series A round, the company tells Axios.
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India — Much of Sarvam's criticism comes from comparing it to OpenAI or DeepSeek, while the problem the company is trying to solve is fundamentally different.
Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine — Grok has proved popular with X users. But a string of bizarre blunders has threatened to turn it into a punchline.
Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers — Venture capitalists have always focused on investing in companies that leverage technology to either disrupt established industries …
Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced between $6,500 and $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the H20 sold for, after US export curbs — Nvidia (NVDA.O) will launch a new artificial intelligence chipset for China at a significantly lower price than its recently restricted H20 model …
X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage globally, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday — Feeds aren't loading on X following a reported data center fire earlier in the week. … Elon Musk's X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage.
The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail in partnership with Shein, has struggled to gain traction after launching in February — Early data shows the partnership is off to a slow start, as Reliance's retail machine struggles to cement its place in a market dominated by Amazon and Walmart.
Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji set, which was last updated in 2013 and became one of the most influential in history after its debut in 1999 — This week, it was announced that Docomo's emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network's devices.
Apple raises trade-in prices for iPhones in China to spur demand in key market … Apple on Friday raised the amount of money people can get off their next iPhone in China by trading in their old device, rolling out further incentives to spur demand in a crucial market.
Vietnam orders ISPs to block Telegram over its failure to prevent illegal content and activities, including fraud, drug sales and suspected terrorism on the app — Vietnam authorities have instructed local telecoms and internet service providers to block the Telegram messaging app in the country …
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more — Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, the new Mario Kart, the Pikmin franchise, Switch 2, and more — “What's important is to be able to create something new.” — In May of 2015, Nintendo officially announced plans to partner …
Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, and nears $500M in ARR — Strava, whose valuation includes debt, says it acquired cycling app The Breakaway — Strava, the popular running and exercise app …
Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-worl...
