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Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference

Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance — a substantial increase over its predecessor.

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Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities. 

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Nvidia invests $2B to help debt-ridden CoreWeave add 5GW of AI compute

CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia’s products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture.

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SpaceX eyes mid-March for first test of upgraded Starship rocket

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket’s booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.

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Nvidia’s new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago

Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users.

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Apple’s new AirTag is louder and can be found across longer distances

Apple’s new AirTag is louder and supports better finding at longer distances.

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Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out

British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.

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This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine

The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls “the muscle on the ground.”

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Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.

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ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.

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