Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Celestial AI, which develops optical tech for linking together processors and memory modules, raised a $175M Series C led by US Innovative Technology Fund  —  Celestial AI Inc., a startup that develops optical technology for linking together processors and memory modules, has secured $175 million in Series C funding. Source link

WhatsApp has begun rolling out a change to the app’s interface on Android, that will make it much easier to use the popular chat application with one hand. The company first introduced a bottom-tabbed design to beta testers of its Android app earlier this year — the iOS version of the app already has tabs at

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital  —  When entrepreneur Stephen Chen’s mom began approaching retirement age, she was forced to borrow money from Chen — and Chen’s brother — to make ends meet. Source link

Amazon kicked off the Great Indian Festival 2023 in India on October 8 for all users. The annual sale offers discounts on mobile phones and accessories from brands including iQoo, OnePlus, Samsung, Realme and Xiaomi. The Samsung Galaxy M14 5G, iQoo Z6 Lite 5G, Redmi Note 12, OnePlus Nord CE 3 5G, and other smartphones

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations  —  Anthropic’s Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May ’23.  —  On Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude 3 … Source link

Amazon’s Great Indian Festival started on October 7 for its Prime users in India and was open to other users a day later. Coincidentally, it started at the same time as Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sale. During the sale, a wide range of products include various large home electronic items like washing machines, air conditioners,

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top  —  Times change, and so must benchmarks.  Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale 2023 has entered its second week and the sale event centred around the holiday season is currently offering discounts and deals on laptops, making it an ideal time to purchase a new laptop or upgrade from an older model. You can consider a laptop like the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google adds a tool that lets US users swipe left or right to rate apparel and accessories to get style recommendations on mobile browsers and Google app  —  Google is rolling out a new update that makes it easier for users to find personalized shopping results, the company announced on Wednesday.

WhatsApp is rolling out support for passkeys on Android, allowing users to securely log back in to their accounts using biometric authentication or their device PIN. Previously, WhatsApp would require users to log in to their account using a one-time password (OTP) and an optional six-digit PIN for two-factor authentication. With the addition of passkeys