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 […]
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 […]
