Topic: ai companies
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Distributed Storage Startup Challenges Cloud Giants
The AI boom is driving demand for specialized computing providers, but most businesses still rely on major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure for storage, which are not optimized for distributed AI workloads. Tigris Data is addressing this gap by building a decentralized ...
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OpenAI & Oracle Strike $300B "Project Stargate" Cloud Deal
OpenAI and Oracle have entered a $300 billion cloud computing agreement over five years to support next-generation AI infrastructure. The partnership, known as "Project Stargate," involves building data centers with 4.5 gigawatts of power and aligns with OpenAI's projected $12.7 billion revenue t...
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RSS Co-Creator Unveils New AI Data Licensing Protocol
The AI industry faces significant legal challenges over copyright and data usage for training models, highlighted by a major settlement and numerous lawsuits. Real Simple Licensing (RSL) is a new framework developed to streamline data licensing between AI companies and content creators, supported...
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Anthropic Backs California's AI Safety Bill SB 53
Anthropic supports California's SB 53, which would impose transparency and safety obligations on major AI developers, despite opposition from some tech groups. The bill mandates that leading AI firms establish safety protocols, disclose security assessments, and protect whistleblowers, focusing o...
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Bank of England: AI Stock Bubble Echoes Dotcom Peak
The Bank of England and prominent figures like Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos are warning that the AI stock surge may be forming a market bubble, risking a sharp downturn due to overinflated valuations. Current U.S. stock valuations resemble those of the dotcom bubble era, with AI companies holding an...
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Claude's New Skills Boost Workplace Productivity
Anthropic's new Skills feature customizes Claude AI for specific workplace tasks by allowing organizations to create folders with instructions and resources, enhancing productivity across various platforms. The tool aims to improve Claude's performance as an AI agent in specialized environments, ...
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Can AI Monetize Brainrot?
The U.S. government shutdown is causing indefinite delays for startups that depend on federal processing for permits, visas, or approvals, threatening their survival. Many artificial intelligence companies are struggling to find sustainable and scalable business models despite their technological...
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Shamillah Bankiya on the State of Europe's Venture Market
Shamillah Bankiya, a partner at Dawn Capital, highlights Europe's dynamic venture market growth, including increased American investor interest and globally successful startups in AI and fintech. She points out structural challenges such as fragmented European stock exchanges and stringent regula...
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AI Giants Bet Big on World Models as LLM Progress Slows
Leading tech firms like Google DeepMind, Meta, and Nvidia are shifting focus to advanced world models that interpret physical environments, moving beyond text to incorporate video and sensor data for more capable AI. This strategic pivot is driven by diminishing returns in large language model im...
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Think Like a YC Partner? This Game Tests Your Skills
YC Arena's YC Partner Simulator is an interactive game where players evaluate real startup pitches and compare their accept/reject decisions with Y Combinator's actual choices, highlighting the difficulty of predicting success. The game reveals the subjective and often luck-influenced nature of s...
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Apple Sued for Using Pirated Books to Train AI
Apple is being sued by authors for allegedly training its AI systems on the Books3 dataset, which contains pirated books, without permission or compensation. The lawsuit, seeking class-action status, aims to stop Apple from using such materials and to secure financial damages for copyright infrin...
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Uber Drivers Are Now Training AI for Extra Cash
Uber is introducing an optional program in the U.S. that allows drivers and couriers to earn extra income by completing digital tasks designed to train AI models, expanding beyond traditional services. Participants can perform tasks like recording videos or uploading photos for payment based on c...
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Intel's Bold Bid to Regain Chip Supremacy
Intel's Fab 52 facility in Arizona is now operational, producing its first chips using the advanced 18A process technology and marking a key step in the company's strategy to regain semiconductor market leadership. The facility features a highly automated and ultra-clean environment, with strict ...
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AI Companies Now Face a New Web Payment System
The Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard is a new framework that allows web publishers to specify and enforce compensation terms when their content is used for training AI systems, with support from major platforms like Reddit and Yahoo. RSL builds on the robots.txt protocol by adding financial...
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Silicon Valley's Most Powerful Alliance Just Got Stronger
The court ruling allows Google to continue its default search payments to Apple, preserving a key revenue stream and reinforcing their long-standing partnership. Judge Mehta acknowledged the arrangement benefits Google but argued ending it could harm Apple and innovation, noting emerging AI compe...
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Get Paid $30/Day to Record Calls for AI: Is It Worth It?
Neon - Money Talks is a free app that pays users for recording their phone conversations, which are then sold as anonymized data to AI companies for training language models. The app records only calls made through it, with a tiered payment system offering up to 30 cents per minute, and includes ...
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Reddit Seeks Lucrative AI Deals with Google and OpenAI
Reddit is negotiating more lucrative AI data deals with companies like Google and OpenAI, seeking greater financial compensation and strategic user growth. The platform is pushing for a dynamic pricing model where payment is tied to how significantly its content influences AI-generated responses....
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Google's AI Video Tool Upgrades Editing and Audio Features
Google's Flow AI video platform has been upgraded with Veo 3.1, enhancing realism and offering creators advanced control over lighting and shadows to better match visual prompts. New AI-generated audio features include tools for creating videos with sound from reference images, transitioning betw...
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US Agencies Now Approved to Use Meta's Llama AI
Federal agencies are now approved to use Meta's Llama AI models for tasks like data processing and automation, as part of a government-wide push to accelerate AI adoption. A key benefit of Llama is its open-source nature, allowing agencies to host it on their own servers to maintain strict contro...
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