China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
Anna Lagos / Wired: China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind
Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $50M Series B (Alex Scott/Chemical & Engineering News)
Alex Scott / Chemical & Engineering News: Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised
Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in
OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI’s Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and
A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital’s investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO in November 2023 (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)
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Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger “Sponsored” label at the top
A federal jury finds that Samsung owes Collision Communications nearly $445.5M in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standards (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
Blake Brittain / Reuters: A federal jury finds that Samsung owes Collision Communications nearly $445.5M in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G,
Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand
OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model (@openai)
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Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round (Rafaela Lindeberg/Bloomberg)
Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M
