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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends
Rillet, a two-year-old startup building what it calls the first truly AI-native accounting platform, has raised a $100 million Series ...
Brad Lightcap, a Top OpenAI Executive, Steps Down
Brad Lightcap, a longtime OpenAI executive, said on Tuesday that he was leaving the company after eight years to start ...
Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up
Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist, and three other artificial intelligence researchers are leaving the company to form their own start-up, ...
Google Names Demis Hassabis to New AI Role in a Leadership Shake-up
Google shook up its artificial intelligence leadership on Wednesday, moving Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-prize winning head of its Google DeepMind ...
How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
When Ernest Mwebaze, a tech developer in Uganda, was building an artificial intelligence system last year tailored for his country’s ...
Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing
Michael Burry, the investor made famous in “The Big Short,” has warned about an artificial intelligence bubble. So has Dean ...
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
Several of Anthropic’s state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models recently broke into the systems of three outside organizations, the start-up said on ...
Chinese Start-Up Moonshot Details New A.I. Model
The Chinese start-up Moonshot publicly released the details of its latest artificial intelligence model on Monday, showing the world how ...
Blockbuster I.P.O.s Are Creating New Millionaires. Philanthropies Want a Cut.
As a series of blockbuster I.P.O.s mint a new crop of the ultrawealthy, nonprofits are scrambling to figure out how ...
Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.
For years, a philosophical divide over how artificial intelligence software should be created has split Silicon Valley technologists.This week, that ...
Jensen Huang says open models should be embraced, not banned as Washington weighs restrictions
Jensen Huang is urging Washington to stop worrying about China’s open-source AI just as an all-out panic has broken out ...
Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
Meta is in talks to lease computing power from its artificial intelligence data centers to Anthropic in a deal that ...
Europe Wants to Break Free From American and Chinese Technology. But How?
The French government said this year that it would replace Zoom and other American videoconference software with a French-developed alternative. ...
Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones
At a secret location in southern Germany, the manager of a drone factory owned by Helsing SE — Europe’s most ...
Asia’s founders are decamping to the U.S. as the region suffers a protracted venture funding slump
Yoevan Khemlani had already begun building his AI company in Singapore when he realized that all his customers were looking ...
New York Times and Other Publishers Ask Court to Penalize OpenAI
The New York Times, The New York Daily News and 15 other media organizations said in a federal court filing ...
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warns the U.S. university system is falling behind China’s
As competition between the U.S. and China intensifies in artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey believes the ...
Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Other Old Internet Brands, Is Going Public
America Online merged with Time Warner in 2001 in a deal worth $165 billion. This year, what remains of AOL ...
In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
“I thought when I’d make $200k I would be able to basically not worry about money at all,” she said, ...
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