February 17, 2025news Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia’s PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake (Financial Times) Read More »
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 17, 2025news Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in Chinese approval for FSD, despite an earlier sign it would come in Q2; China is weighing using it in US negotiations (Financial Times) Read More »
February 17, 2025news Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from $190M in 2023 (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg) Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from […]
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 17, 2025news X appears to be blocking Signal’s “Signal.me” links in DMs, posts, and profile pages, giving error messages and showing a warning page for users clicking them (Matt Binder/disruptionist) Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE. Read More »
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 Departmentâs Bureau of the Fiscal Service said DOGEâs Tom Krause is âcurrentlyâ the […]
