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OpenAI closes a $40B funding round, the most ever raised by a private tech company, at a $300B post-money valuation; SoftBank led the round with $30B — OpenAI on Monday announced it had closed what amounts to the largest private tech funding round on record.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI's $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025's end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive — OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, said it has finalized a funding round that will bring in $40 billion …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's new GPT-4o-powered image generator is now available to all users; Sam Altman last week mentioned a limit of three images per day for free-tier users — OpenAI's new image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, is now available to all users, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months” — OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.” — That's according to a feedback form …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more — Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said the chipmaker will spin off assets that aren't central to its mission and create …
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft expands Copilot+ PC features like Live Captions and Cocreator, previously exclusive to models with Snapdragon chips, to models with AMD or Intel chips — Staggered feature releases make me ask “what even is a Copilot+ PC?” — Microsoft has a big update for Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel or AMD processors.
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X: @zacbowden, @pavandavuluri, @windowsblog, @sasamarinkovic, @dylanonchips, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @amdryzen, and @dylanonchips. LinkedIn: Mark Linton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signals withholding promised CHIPS Act grants as he pushes companies to substantially expand their US projects — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has signaled he could withhold promised Chips Act grants as he pushes companies in line … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent weeks, Meta executives including Mark Zuckerberg have pressed US trade officials to oppose an impending EU fine and cease-and-desist order — Facebook owner presses trade officials to push back against European law that could undermine its ad business
More: The Verge
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which gets support for eight more languages, and Ambient Music via Control Center — Apple today released iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the fourth major updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating system updates …
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LinkedIn: Eric Gourlaouen and Christopher B. Neubauer
Forums: r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher, r/iphone, r/apple, r/MacOS, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
| Bloomberg: |
Builder.ai lowers H2 2024 revenue estimates by ~25% after some sales channels “did not come through” and says a full audit report is expected by summer 2025 — The London-based company, which has raised more than $450 million, dropped its revenue estimates for the second half … | Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
USPTO suspended xAI's Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to “Grok” — Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.
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| Financial Times: |
The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's flagship AI agency, plans to focus on defense, environment, and health, after staff criticized its leadership in December — Chief of Britain's flagship AI agency says ‘big strategic’ shift is needed — Britain's flagship artificial intelligence agency … | Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Microsoft closes its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai, opened in May 2019, reflecting a broader pullback from China amid geopolitical tensions with the US — The IoT & AI Insider Lab in the Zhangjiang hi-tech zone likely closed in January or February, nearby workers say| Financial Times: |
Current and former Google DeepMind scientists say a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy at Google's AI arm have made it harder to publish AI research — Google's AI arm led by Demis Hassabis makes it harder for its researchers to publish studies in major change in approach
X: @tanarrowz and @aiamblichus
| Lam Le / Rest of World: |
A look at Shanghai municipal government-backed SpaceSail, a satellite internet company that has launched ~90 satellites so far and plans to have 15,000 by 2030 — The Shanghai satellite company is launching deals in countries where Starlink, X or Tesla are creating friction.
More: Benzinga, GSMArena.com, TechCabal, Wall Street Pit, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
LightSource, whose software helps companies manage their procurement process, costs, and vendor relationships, raised $33M led by Bain Capital and Lightspeed — With President Donald Trump set to impose sweeping tariffs on a wide swath of U.S. trading partners this week, corporate America is awash in uncertainty.| Washington Post: |
Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is unsettling Silicon Valley's immigrant tech community, as tech companies tell employees on visas not to leave the US — Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is rattling the immigrant tech community in Silicon Valley long viewed as one of the key pillars of U.S. innovation.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics to move data in chips via light, unveils an interposer and chiplet for AI chips; the startup has raised $850M so far — Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips.
More: SiliconANGLE
| Megan Specia / New York Times: |
How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools — In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a “Smartphone Free Childhood” campaign is going viral.Sponsor Posts
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