February 17, 2025news

Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3 (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be […]

February 14, 2025news

Source: xAI is canvassing potential investors, including Sequoia Capital and a16z, for a roughly $10B funding round that would value the company at about $75B (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

Source: xAI is canvassing potential investors, including Sequoia Capital and a16z, for a roughly $10B funding round that would value the company […]

February 14, 2025news

Sources: Dell nears a $5B deal to provide servers with Nvidia’s GB200 chips for xAI’s supercomputer project in Memphis (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Sources: Dell nears a $5B deal to provide servers with Nvidia’s GB200 chips for xAI’s supercomputer project in Memphis (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) Read […]

February 14, 2025news

DOGE’s Tom Krause, the US Treasury’s new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

An email sent to workers at the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service said DOGE’s Tom Krause is “currently” the […]

February 14, 2025news

Sources: Meta plans major investment in AI

Sources: Meta plans major investment in AI-powered humanoid robots, with an initial focus on household chores, and has formed a new team […]

February 14, 2025news

Ubisoft reports revenue for the nine months ending December 31, 2024, down 31.4% YoY to €990M, net booking down 34.8% to €944M, but remains optimistic about Q4 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)

Ubisoft has released its financial results for the nine months ending December 31, 2024, reporting significant declines… Read More »

February 14, 2025news

Sources: President Xi will chair a symposium on February 17 to boost private sector sentiment, with Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other tech executives set to attend (Reuters)

Sources: President Xi will chair a symposium on February 17 to boost private sector sentiment, with Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other […]

February 14, 2025news

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg’s overtures to President Trump have unsettled employees and are part of an effort to shift antitrust scrutiny off Meta and onto Apple (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s actions to curry favor with the president have rattled employees, but people familiar with his efforts say there’s […]

February 14, 2025news

Sources: the White House plans to renegotiate some Chips Act awards after reassessing requirements, and has signaled delays to some upcoming disbursements (Reuters)

Sources: the White House plans to renegotiate some Chips Act awards after reassessing requirements, and has signaled delays to some upcoming disbursements […]

February 13, 2025news

Sources: Italian spyware maker SIO created malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other apps; a researcher says they were likely used in Italy (Lorenzo Franceschi

Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, […]