Tag: funding

  • The Register: France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/08/uae_france_dc_ai/ Source: The Register Title: France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet Feedly Summary: Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-gigawatt AI datacenter campus dedicated to advancing development of artificial intelligence.… AI…

  • The Register: SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft’s $13B look quaint

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/softbank_invests_40b_openai/ Source: The Register Title: SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft’s $13B look quaint Feedly Summary: Some of that cash is reportedly headed for $500B Stargate dream The AI investment landscape is shifting once again, with SoftBank reportedly finalizing a $40 billion stake in OpenAI – pushing its valuation to around $300…

  • Slashdot: Google To Spend $75 Billion on AI Push

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1156248/google-to-spend-75-billion-on-ai-push?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google To Spend $75 Billion on AI Push Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alphabet’s significant increase in capital expenditures aimed at enhancing its AI infrastructure underscores a competitive arms race among major tech companies like Microsoft and Meta. This trend highlights the growing significance of investing…

  • The Register: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/los_alamos_lab_to_research/ Source: The Register Title: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies Feedly Summary: Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leading a project to transform how chips are designed and manufactured, to make them more energy efficient and able to…

  • Hacker News: S1: The $6 R1 Competitor?

    Source URL: https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1 Source: Hacker News Title: S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel AI model that demonstrates significant performance scalability while being cost-effective, leveraging concepts like inference-time scaling and entropix. It highlights the implications of such advancements for AI research, including geopolitics…

  • The Register: Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/cyberattack_on_nhs_hospitals_sees/ Source: The Register Title: Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets Feedly Summary: Healthcare chiefs say impact will persist for months NHS execs admit that last year’s cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to “significantly" impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for…

  • Hacker News: Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

    Source URL: https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release Source: Hacker News Title: Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The OpenEuroLLM project is an innovative initiative involving collaboration among Europe’s leading AI companies and research institutions to develop open-source language models. This project aims to improve Europe’s AI…

  • Slashdot: Air Force Documents On Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/03/2018259/air-force-documents-on-gen-ai-test-are-just-whole-pages-of-redactions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Air Force Documents On Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) funding of generative AI services through a contract with Ask Sage. It highlights concerns over transparency due to extensive…

  • The Register: What does it mean to build in security from the ground up?

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/02/security_design_choices/ Source: The Register Title: What does it mean to build in security from the ground up? Feedly Summary: As if secure design is the only bullet point in a list of software engineering best practices Systems Approach As my Systems Approach co-author Bruce Davie and I think through what it means to…

  • The Register: Trump admin’s purge of US cyber advisory boards was ‘foolish,’ says ex-Navy admiral

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/gutting_us_cyber_advisory_boards/ Source: The Register Title: Trump admin’s purge of US cyber advisory boards was ‘foolish,’ says ex-Navy admiral Feedly Summary: ‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’ interview Gutting the Cyber Safety Review Board as it was investigating how China’s Salt Typhoon breached American government and…