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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks chip restrictions with Trump, blasts state-by-state AI regulations
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday and that the two men discussed chip export restrictions, as lawmakers consider a proposal to limit exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to nations like China. “I’ve said it repeatedly that we support export controls, and that we should ensure that American […]
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OpenAI to acquire Neptune, a startup that helps with AI model training
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan February 3, 2025. Kim Kyung-hoon | Reuters OpenAI has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Neptune, a startup that builds monitoring and de-bugging tools that artificial intelligence companies use as they train models. Neptune and OpenAI have collaborated on […]
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Waymo expanding to Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis with manual test drives
Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Uber Technologies Inc. Waymo on Wednesday said humans will begin test driving the Alphabet-owned company’s robotaxi vehicles in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The three cities represent the latest additions to Waymo’s quickly growing list of cities where the Google sister company is […]
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Security startup Verkada hits $5.8 billion valuation in latest funding round led by CapitalG
Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada. Courtesy: Verkada Security technology startup Verkada has reached a $5.8 billion valuation after a new funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s venture capital arm, announced Wednesday. “I think Google saw the opportunity with us in the application of AI and everything we’re driving to apply AI to the physical security […]
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ChatGPT outage: OpenAI’s chatbot is down for some users
OpenAI’s EMEA startups head Laura Modiano spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday, 8 October. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is down for some users. The company said it is “currently experiencing issues,” including “increased ChatGPT error rates,” according to an update on OpenAI’s status page. “We have applied […]
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OpenAI is under pressure as Google, Anthropic gain ground
Sam Altman is feeling the pressure. The OpenAI CEO sent a memo to his staffers on Monday outlining a “code red” effort to improve its chatbot ChatGPT, according to multiple reports. Altman said OpenAI will be pulling back on investments in areas like health, shopping and advertising as it works to prioritize ChatGPT, the reports […]
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Digital Asset Treasuries are crypto’s latest hype — and maybe its next bubble
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The term Digital Asset Treasury companies, known as DATs or DATCOs, has emerged as one of the biggest buzzwords in the digital currency industry this year, providing investors with a novel way to play crypto — but with new risks. A DAT is effectively a publicly-listed entity that holds […]
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A ‘seismic’ Nvidia shift, AI chip shortages and how it’s threatening to hike gadget prices
The logo of an Apple Store is seen reflected on the glass exterior of a Samsung flagship store in Shanghai, China Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. Wang Gang | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images The cost of your smartphone might rise, analysts are warning, as the AI boom clogs up supply chains and […]
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Meta’s Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week
Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Instagram will require U.S.-based employees to work five days a week in an office, Meta confirmed on Monday. The new return-to-office policy will take effect on Feb. 2 and […]
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Shopify outage: Shopping platform goes down for some users during Cyber Monday
Thomas Trutschel | Getty Images Shopify was hit with an outage on Cyber Monday, leaving some businesses unable to manage transactions during one of the biggest shopping days of the year. In an update to its status page, the Canadian e-commerce company said select merchants were experiencing issues logging into Shopify, while others were unable […]
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