One of the most intense cosmic shockwaves has been observed in Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies located approximately 290 million light-years from Earth. The event was triggered by the galaxy NGC 7318b colliding with four neighbouring galaxies at an estimated velocity of two million mph (3.2 million kmph). The collision produced a shock front […]
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps publishers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised a $26M Series A at a $100M valuation — As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic … Source link
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Saturday that global collaboration and cooperation in technology will continue, even if the incoming U.S. administration imposes stricter export controls on advanced computing products. President-elect Donald Trump, in his first term in office, imposed a series of restrictions on the sale of U.S. technology to China citing national security
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Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever — Investors see Trump victory as a positive with threat of TikTok ban looming in U.S. — TikTok parent ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion … Source link
Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive “less personalised ads,” the tech giant announced on Tuesday, in an effort to allay regulators’ mounting concerns. The Menlo Park, California-based company said it is implementing these changes in response to demands from EU regulators. Over the coming weeks, people in
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: PointFive, which helps companies track usage across multiple clouds, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, after raising a $16M seed in June 2024 — Enterprise spend on cloud services continues to go up, up, up — to the tune of $675 billion this year — thanks … Source
Microsoft introduced a new multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Magnetic-One on Monday. The tech giant called it a high-performing system that can activate multiple AI agents to complete complex tasks via web browsers on locally on a device. It is based on a new framework that allows an AI model to access multiple modalities
Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG’s office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG — – Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations — Firm in early talks with California attorney general’s office Source link
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and several other company executives hosted an ask-me-anything (AMA) session on Thursday. The session was hosted on the social networking platform Reddit and users were told to ask questions about the AI firm’s products such as ChatGPT or general queries about artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI). During the
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli / Financial Times: An interview with EssilorLuxottica CEO Francesco Milleri on the Meta partnership, smart glasses replacing smartphones, and more, as the firm is valued at €100B — Eyewear giant chief Francesco Milleri says wearable technology developed with Meta will fuel growth Source link