Tuesday, June 11, 2024

UAE-based Tenderd, which uses AI to help reduce emissions, raised $30M led by Danish firm A.P. Moller, following a Peter Thiel-backed $5.8M seed in 2019 (Fahad Abuljadayel/Bloomberg)

Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg:
UAE-based Tenderd, which uses AI to help reduce emissions, raised $30M led by Danish firm A.P. Moller, following a Peter Thiel-backed $5.8M seed in 2019  —  - Oil giant set up Wa'ed Ventures to invest in tech startups  — Tenderd says Aramco, Maersk are potential new customers



Apple's OpenAI partnership took up just two minutes of its one hour and 45 minute WWDC keynote, as the company focused on its own Apple Intelligence products (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Nick Turner / Bloomberg:
Apple's OpenAI partnership took up just two minutes of its one hour and 45 minute WWDC keynote, as the company focused on its own Apple Intelligence products  —  Apple's keynote presentation at its Worldwide Developers Conference lasted more than an hour and 45 minutes, but only about two minutes were devoted to OpenAI's ChatGPT.



Raspberry Pi jumps by up to 39% on its London trading debut, hitting a £542M market cap, after pricing shares at £2.80, and expects to ship 8.4M PCs in 2024 (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Raspberry Pi jumps by up to 39% on its London trading debut, hitting a £542M market cap, after pricing shares at £2.80, and expects to ship 8.4M PCs in 2024  —  Listing set to give creator of low-cost computers a market valuation above £542mn



Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)

Rina Chandran / Rest of World : Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” app...