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xAI raised a $6B Series B from Valor, Vy Capital, a16z, Sequoia, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, and others, Elon Musk says at a pre-money valuation of $18B — xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion. — xAI is pleased to announce...
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| Axios: |
Elon Musk says all of the $6B in xAI's Series B is new money rather than shares “given” to investors in Musk's takeover of Twitter — - That said, there's plenty of overlap in the investor list, and it's unclear if the original Twitter/X backers also received additional equity in xAI … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A closer look at Apple's AI strategy: Project Greymatter, local and cloud LLM data processing, Siri, sealing a chatbot partnership deal with OpenAI, and more — Though Apple's first set of modern AI features won't be as impressive as rival offerings, the company is betting that its massive customer base can give it an edge.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Researchers find that GPT-4 can outperform human analysts in predicting the direction of future corporate earnings even when given only financial statements — Researchers from the University of Chicago have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can conduct financial statement analysis …
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| Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times: |
Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on the state of Hollywood, shifting US tastes, programming strategy, ads, corporate activism, YouTube, live events, AI, and more — Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times — If you're anything like me, you probably spent some large portion of this week sitting on your couch watching Netflix.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity's responses to some real-life questions and everyday tasks: Perplexity ranked first overall — We tested OpenAI's ChatGPT against Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini, along with Perplexity and Anthropic's Claude. Here's how they ranked.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Data.ai: of the top 20 education apps in the US App Store, five are AI agents that help with school assignments, the two most popular of which are Chinese-owned — Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone …
More: Tech in Asia. Mastodon: @BrideOfLinux@mastodon …. LinkedIn: Abhishek Sharma and Randy Wilkins
Forums: r/technology and r/singularity
| Reuters: |
China set up a new ~$47.5B state-backed investment fund on May 24 as the third and largest phase of its Big Fund to boost the country's semiconductor industry — China has set up a new state-backed investment fund with registered capital of 344 billion yuan ($47.5 billion) to boost the country's semiconductor industry.| Louise Matsakis / Big Technology: |
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US — In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the UK's $5.5B gaming industry, as private equity firm EQT makes a £2.2B offer for Keyword Studios, and other developers shore up their balance sheets — Developers shore up their balance sheets after a difficult few years — Pass the controller.
LinkedIn: Patrick O'Donnell
| TIME: |
LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human …
More: DigiTimes. Threads: @ianbetteridge, @carnage4life, and @sethcjayson. Mastodon: @technocounselor …
Bluesky: @motomatters.bsky.social and @zitron.bsky.social
X: @gergelyorosz, @ylecun, @mattrosoff, @vsikka, @ericlandgrebe, @psychosort, @eshear, @eshear, @ylecun, @landay, @dioscuri, @jonasmtzgr, @oshanjarow, @hamandcheese, @chrszegedy, @idavidrein, @sean_a_mcclure, @mealreplacer, @drfeifei, and @dioscuri. LinkedIn: Ross Dawson. Forums: r/technology
| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank's outlay for AI investments has more than doubled to $8.9B in the 12 months since Masayoshi Son said the firm was ready to go on the “counteroffensive” — Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching financesSponsor Posts
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