The biggest breach of US government data is under way
Operatives working for Elon Musk have gained unprecedented access to a swath of U.S. government departments — including agencies responsible for managing data on millions of federal employees and a system that handles $6 trillion...
Startups face the recurring dilemma of whether to partner
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This first week of February was busy on...
Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections
A number of startups are racing to make vehicle inspections faster, easier, and cheaper. Self Inspection, a startup based in San Diego, thinks it has them all beat with its AI-powered service — and now...
Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029
France’s public investment bank announced that it plans to invest as much as €10 billion (around $10.3 billion at current exchange rates) in the artificial intelligence ecosystem in France. This announcement comes a few days...
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models,...
Amazon deletes ‘inclusion and diversity’ language in latest filing
Amazon is the latest tech company to remove references to “inclusion and diversity” from its 10-K report. The filing has removed reference to diversity and inclusion as it pertains to the workplace.
In its 2023 10-K form, the...
VC Mike Ghaffary is looking for the job-creating AI startup that doesn’t yet exist
Silicon Valley is madly building AI agents to augment human labor. If such agents work as intended, a whole swath of jobs could become extinct – or close to it. AI agents are poised to...
German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal...
Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to support the study of systemic risks — such as...
Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI
Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products powering various capabilities in Microsoft software and services,...
Laurene Powell-Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round
Nuclear startup X-Energy has added $200 million to an existing $500 million Series C round.
The small module reactor specialist previously announced a deal with Amazon in October, which included an investment and development agreements to...
