Meta adds 100mW of solar power from US gear
Meta yesterday signed a deal with solar developer Silicon Ranch to develop a $100 million 100 megawatt solar farm in South Carolina. The new renewable installation will become the planned AI data center for Power Meta in the state, and is expected to cost $800 million. Both the data center and solar plants are expected […]
Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users with Elon Musk’s Xai Chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google search, Forbe reports. When a Grok user clicks the “Share” button in a conversation with a chatbot, a unique URL is created that users can use to share their conversations via email, text, or social media. According […]
New Zero-Day startup offers $20 million for a tool that can hack your smartphone
The new UAE-based startup offers up to $20 million for hacking tools that help governments break into any smartphone via text messaging. Launched this month, Advanced Security Solutions currently offers at least a portion of public prices across the zero-day market. Zero Day is a software flaw that is unknown to the developers affected at […]
YC backed garage raises $13.5 million to help firefighters buy equipment
Martin Hunt, a firefighter from the age of 15 and now 26, knew firsthand the pain of a small community with a tight budget to buy fire equipment. One day in 2023 he found himself chatting with one of his firefighters friends who asked if Hunt knew how to do better. “When we couldn’t find […]
y combinator alum sre.ai raises $7.2 million for devops ai agent
“It wasn’t one big light bulb. It was death by a thousand cuts,” Edward Alley said when asked if he had led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch Sre.ai. The company offers natural language AI agents that can run complex enterprise DEVOPS workflows such as continuous integration and testing. “Instead of sewing together […]
Finally, the concept now works without an internet connection
For years, one of the most annoying issues with using concepts has been that it is not possible to accomplish a lot offline due to cloud-first architecture. The company has finally solved the problem and added support for offline mode to the app. To absolutely no one’s surprise, the company on Tuesday said in a […]
Deal wins a lawsuit, but not rippling
A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed against Deel, the fighter who fought. And Deal described it as a “wavy” and “wavy support” lawsuit, but this is not the infamous lawsuit filed earlier this year by rivals with alleged corporate spying. “This lawsuit has nothing to do with rippling, we weren’t parties to […]
The Court of Appeal says the NLRB structure is unconstitutional in SpaceX’s victory
The federal court of appeals handed SpaceX a victory on Tuesday in a ruling that prevented the National Labor Relations Commission from prosecuting unfair labor practices against the company. The ruling by the Fifth District Court of Appeals, which suggests that the structure of the NLRB is likely to be unconstitutional, suggests that it may […]
Meta is waking up AI organizations again
On Friday, the information reported that META is preparing to demolish existing AI organizations and reorganize them into four new groups. Four days later, the change became official in an internal memo, as reported by Bloomberg and the New York Times. The change was announced by AI founder Alexandr Wang, who joined the Meta as […]
Databricks CEO says a fresh billion dollar will help him attack the new AI database market
Databricks has been confirmed by TechCrunch that it is in the process of closing a new round at a $100 billion valuation. The round was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal. Sources familiar with the deal only tell TechCrunch that the new round is around $1 billion and is being extremely oversubscribed. Databricks, best […]