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Analytics company Dataminr secures $85M to fund growth
Dataminr, a data analytics company that counts NATO and OpenAI among its customers, has raised $85 million in a combination of convertible financing and credit, Dataminr announced on Wednesday. It’s chump change for Dataminr, which closed a $475 million round at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021. But the company has seen its fair share […]
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Streamer Plex raises subscription price for the first time in a decade
Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase in a decade for its premium subscription service Plex Pass, which offers power users a variety of additional features, like offline access, themes, hardware transcoding, and other advanced settings. The service will now cost $6.99 per […]
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Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU
Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by EU Commission enforcers of the bloc’s flagship market contestability law, who have been investigating the company for months. The DMA applies to a handful of tech giants, Alphabet (Google’s parent) […]
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EPA was ‘arbitrary and capricious’ when it froze nonprofits’ Citibank accounts, judge finds
The judge also found that the nonprofits will “suffer imminent, irreparable harm” if they don’t gain access to their funding.
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Morgan Stanley Plans to Lay Off 2,000 Workers, Replacing Some with AI
‘Orchestrated a Scheme to Steal Millions’: Hollywood Filmmaker Allegedly Used Netflix’s Money to Make Lavish Purchases — Instead of a Sci-Fi Series
Researchers say they’ve discovered a new method of ‘scaling up’ AI, but there’s reason to be skeptical
Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”? That’s what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical. AI scaling laws, a bit of an informal concept, describe how the performance of AI models improves as the size of the datasets and computing resources used to train them increases. Until roughly a […]
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