Nvidia is said to be developing new, more powerful AI chips for sale in China
The world’s most valuable chipmakers are far from giving up their desire to keep China as a major growth market. Nvidia appears to be putting together a new AI chip aimed at selling in China, citing an anonymous source. The new chip, codenamed B30A, will be stronger than the H20 GPUs the company is currently […]
Figure IPO submission mark Mike Cagney returns to the open market
Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lender seven years ago, applied for an IPO for Nasdaq’s Class A common stock. GoldmanSachs, Jefferies and Bofa Securities serve as key BookRunners. The number of stocks and price ranges offered has not yet been determined. The figure states that it reported profits of $191 million over the six months ended […]
AI Crawler Firecrawl has raised $14.5 million, but is considering hiring an agent as an employee
Firecrawl co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment investors were leading Series A. He was at a coffee meeting with Abhishek Sharma of Nexus Venture Partner at Blue Bottle (his favorite VC Hunt) in San Francisco. While explaining the future of the company, he was gestured so animatedly that his chair was turned […]
Spotify’s latest features allow you to add your own transitions to your playlist
Spotify introduces new features that allow subscribers to create more professional and personalized playlists. On Tuesday, the company launched a custom transition feature. This allows you to automatically add transitions between tracks in your playlist, or use preset options such as Fade, Rise, Blend to customize your own transitions using other options. To use the […]
8 Sleep raises $100 million to expand AI-powered sleep technology
One in three US adults are regularly sleep deprived, driving the demand for tools that can monitor, analyze and enhance rest. Established in 2014, eight Sleep offers AI-powered Sleep Tech products that promise to turn beds into preventive medical devices. The New York-based startup announced Tuesday it has raised a fresh $100 million round from […]
Allianz Life Data Breach Impact 1.1 million customers
A July data breaches at US insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the identity of 1.1 million customers, according to the data breach notification site. Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers had stolen the “majority” of their 1.4 million customers and employees from their cloud store’s customer […]
Texas Attorney General accuses meta of misleading children’s characters, mental health claims
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studios and characters, according to a press release issued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas children from deceptive and exploitative techniques,” Paxton is quoted as saying. “Under the guise of a source of emotional support, […]
Hank Green’s Focus Friends App Climbs to App Store Chart – It’s very cute
You need to keep focused. You cannot open Tiktok, Instagram, or a small phone game you want to play. If it fails, the knitting project will rely on its ability to maintain focus, making anthropomorphic beans very sad. This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank […]
Subsack writers can now direct readers to iOS (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions
Substack, the newsletter subscription platform, will begin taking advantage of the US app store options that allow users to purchase outside of Apple’s in-app purchase system. This feature is permitted by a change to the App Store rules in May as a result of an anti-trust lawsuit against the tech giant by Epic Games. Since […]
Why Paradigm built spreadsheets using AI agents for every cell
Anna Monaco has been building AI agents even before the term “AI agent.” After building a number of chatbots, she began looking for other types of interfaces that would make sense to AI agents and landed on a spreadsheet. “I had this personal pattern, but I realized that many other people have this pattern. This […]