ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia
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Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award
Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It’s now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field has won two men the highest honor in…
AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games
Facing defeat in chess, the latest generation of AI reasoning models sometimes cheat without being instructed to do so. The finding suggests that the next wave of AI models could…
Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order
Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption.…
QuestionAI
QuestionAI represents the next evolution in question-answering technology, bridging the gap between vast information repositories and human curiosity. Unlike traditional search engines that return lists of potentially relevant links, QuestionAI…
What Happens When No One Believes in the Rules Anymore?
A Book Review of Sean West’s ‘Unruly: Fighting Back When Politics, AI, and Law Upend the Rules of Business’, by Bridget McCormack, President, Chief Executive …
Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling
Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks…
From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.…
First Speakers + Sponsors Announced – Legal Innovators California, June 11 + 12
We are delighted to announce the first wave of speakers and sponsors for the Legal Innovators California conference in San Francisco, taking place on June 11 …
CoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & Biases
Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 billion on the transaction. Weights &…