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Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit — Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
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| The Hill: |
In response to Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI bid, Sam Altman says on X “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”; Musk replies “swindler” — OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman appeared to shut down a reported offer from an investor group led …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market” — - “OpenAI is not for sale. … - Altman said the board has not determined a valuation for OpenAI's operations yet … | CNBC: |
Investors behind the $97.4B OpenAI bid include xAI, Baron Capital, Valor, Atreides, Vy Capital, Joe Lonsdale's 8VC, and an investment vehicle led by Ari Emanuel — Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in offering to buy control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, CNBC confirmed.
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Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship” — U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Europeans on Tuesday that what he called their excessive regulation … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive — At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
At the AI Action Summit in Paris, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc plans to mobilize €200B to invest in AI to catch the US and China — The announcement underscores efforts from the EU to position itself as a key player in the AI race
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| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
The US and the UK did not join France, China, India, and other countries in signing an international AI agreement in Paris, without explaining their reasons — The UK and US have not signed an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI) at a global summit in Paris.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google Calendar removes Pride month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and other events, saying it wasn't “scalable or sustainable” to keep them — Google says it switched to only showing default entries for public holidays and national observances last year.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names — Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users.
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| Gloria Li / Financial Times: |
Chinese EV maker BYD unveils a “God's Eye” self-driving system and aims to install it on its entire lineup, including its ~$9,600 Seagull hatchback — Tesla rival will equip hatchback on sale for less than $10,000 with features usually found only on upscale vehicles| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Supercell reports 2024 revenue up 77% YoY to almost $3B from its six titles and EBITDA up ~77% to $900M+; Squad Busters made $100M+ in revenue — Supercell Oy, the Finnish video-game company behind such hits as Brawl Stars and Clash of Clans, is delivering big gains …
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture — Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its AI research assistant tier with higher usage limits, to Google One AI Premium subscribers, and debuts a 50% student discount — Google has expanded NotebookLM Plus, a paid version of its AI-based note-taking and research assistant, to individual users subscribed …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
How TSMC and Taiwan are rushing to avoid Trump's tariffs, as TSMC's board meets in Arizona for the first time; Trump has said TSMC “stole” the US' chip business — US president's complaints threaten top chipmaker's business model and east Asian country's security
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| Rishi Kant / Reuters: |
Boston-based QuEra Computing, which is developing neutral-atom quantum computing to help scale systems, raised $230M+ from Google's Quantum AI unit and others — QuEra Computing said on Tuesday the neutral-atom quantum firm has completed a funding round in excess of $230 million …
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