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German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Germany Startup AI

Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago India

Police takes down Cryptomixer cryptocurrency mixing service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago Cryptocurrency

Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (www.washingtonpost.com)
18 days ago AI Brazil

HSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI HSBC

Amazon and Google Announce Resilient 'Multicloud' Networking Service Plus an Open API for Interoperability (tech.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Google Amazon

The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers; a trade group says there is a shortage of ~439K workers (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago AI

China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (www.reuters.com)
19 days ago China Central Bank

New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills (www.nytimes.com)
19 days ago New York

Linux Kernel 6.18 Officially Released (linux.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Linux

Russia Left Without Access to ISS Following Structure Collapse During Thursday's Launch (science.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Russia

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (www.cnet.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (www.nbcnews.com)
19 days ago China Startup AI

Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (www.ft.com)
19 days ago Intel

How OpenAI Reacted When Some ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Reality (slashdot.org)
19 days ago

'Crime Rings Enlist Hackers To Hijack Trucks' (yro.slashdot.org)
19 days ago

How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago China Africa Entrepreneur

Can AI Transform Space Propulsion? (science.slashdot.org)
19 days ago AI

Info to Decipher Secret Message in Kryptos Sculpture at CIA HQ Auctioned for Nearly $1M (it.slashdot.org)
19 days ago

Anthropic says over 60% of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing after Claude Code's rise in popularity (www.forbes.com)
19 days ago

Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (www.theinformation.com)
19 days ago AI

Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Credit Protection Nearing Record High (developers.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Morgan Stanley Oracle

What Happens When You Kick Millions of Teens Off Social Media? Australia's About to Find Out (tech.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Australia Social Media

An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
19 days ago Google AI Nvidia

Amazon Tells Its Engineers: Use Our AI Coding Tool 'Kiro' (developers.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Amazon AI

Is OpenAI Preparing to Bring Ads to ChatGPT? (slashdot.org)
19 days ago

South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Korea

AI Can Already Do the Work of 12% of America's Workforce, Researchers Find (it.slashdot.org)
19 days ago U.S. AI

How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (www.nytimes.com)
19 days ago Trump AI

Benedict Cumberbatch Films Two Bizarre Holiday Ads: for 'World of Tanks' and Amazon (games.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Amazon

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