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Meta Invests Nearly $15 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab

Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

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Scale AI plans to promote strategy chief Droege to CEO as founder Wang heads for Meta

With Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang headed to Meta for high-profile role in artificial intelligence, the startup is promoting its strategy head.

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The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.

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After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M

Lately, Felicis, like most VCs, has been all over AI. Its portfolio now includes, for example, Browser Use, Poolside, Runway, and Supabase.

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Bluesky backlash misses the point

Not only is Bluesky more than just a Twitter/X alternative, it’s just one app in a wider social ecosystem built on open technology.

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The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster

It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That’s basically what it feels like right now on the new standalone Meta AI app, where … Continue reading

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AMD reveals next-generation AI chips with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

The MI400 chips will be able to be assembled into a full server rack called Helios.

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Google cloud and other internet services are reporting outages

A number of cloud services were suffering from outages on Thursday.

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Coinbase beefs up subscription plan by offering it with American Express credit card

Coinbase on Thursday introduced its first branded credit card in partnership with American Express.

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A lot of the internet is down right now

Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. It appears that a Google Cloud outage may be at the root of these other service … Continue reading

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