Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation technology
Roblox announced Thursday it will launch new safeguards for people aged 13 to 18. The company introduces “trusted connections” to allow these users to connect more freely with people they know, along with age estimation techniques, more privacy tools and insights from teenage parents. Roblox has been firing in recent years about how to deal […]
Openai and human researchers condemn “reckless” safety culture at Elon Musk’s Xai
AI safety researchers from Openai, humanity and other organizations have made public comments about Xai’s “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture, a billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. Criticism follows a week-long scandal at Xai that masked the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot Grok spewed anti-Semitic comments, repeatedly calling them […]
GM teams up with Redwood Materials to power data center with EV batteries
GM has sent new and old EV batteries to Redwood Materials and has since reused the pack for stationary energy storage, the companies announced today. GM’s Second Life Battery has already gone through the Redwood process and has entered the 12-megawatt microgrid at its Sparks, Nevada headquarters. The electricity from that installation will flow to […]
GMC Hummer Ev surpassed Tesla Cybertruck’s last quarter
Tesla Cybertruck sales plummeted from last year’s peak. According to new data from Cox Automotive, Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks in the second quarter. Both were beaten by Ford’s F-150 Lightning, becoming the best-selling electric truck in the US in the first quarter, beating CyberTruck. But even Ford’s offering is struggling. The 5,842 lightning bolts […]
Nvidia’s H20 chip sales resume related to rare earth element trade talk
The rare earth element appears to lie behind Nvidia’s attitude towards China. After announcing plans to essentially withdraw from the Chinese market in June, the giant reversal course of semiconductor chips and AI said it has submitted an application to reopen H20 AI chip sales to China. US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on […]
Faraday’s future faces potential SEC enforcement measures after three years of investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has written to future founders of Faraday, President Jia Yueting and Jerry Wang, warning that they could soon face enforcement action from the agency as a result of a three-year fraud investigation. The letter, known as the “Wells Notice,” says a regulatory filing issued Wednesday that committee staff have […]
Transit software launches via IPO sensitive files
Via, the transit software startup, which attracted attention for its on-demand shuttle service for consumers, said it had filed confidentiality for its initial public offering. Via has been able to put forward plans for IPOs for years. The company confidentially filed its IPO in 2021, but never took the following official and regulatory measures to […]
Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures gathers new funds and backs Fintech slowdowns
Rex Salisbury, the solo Grand Prix behind Cambrian Venture, fondly recalls his time in love with FinTech. The year was 2015. He recently quit his job as an investment banker to dabble in engineering at a San Francisco mortgage startup. “That’s when companies like Stripe, Plaid, Credit Karma and WealthFront started to expand,” he told […]
UK retail giant cooperative confirms that hackers have stole all 6.5 million customer records
The CEO of the UK retail conglomerate said the hackers stole personal data from all of the company’s customers during the April cyberattack, according to the cooperative co-op on Wednesday. Co-op Group CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq told BBC News that hackers had copied a member list of 6.5 million members, but the co-op shut down the […]
Meta reportedly has acquired two more famous Openai researchers
Openai researcher Jason Wei reports Wired citing two sources familiar with the issue as he joined Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyun, will win Jung and will also be able to participate in the Meta. Sources told Wired that both researchers’ internal Openai slack profiles are currently deactivated. Wei and Chung will be […]