‘Strapping a Rocket to Our Backs’: What Is Wiz? Here’s What to Know About Google’s Largest Acquisition Ever.
Wiz will be folded into Google Cloud. It’s the biggest deal of 2025 so far.
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Sequoia shutters D.C. office, lets go of policy team
Sequoia will shutter its D.C. office as well as part ways with the policy team there at the end of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news comes — and is somewhat in contrast — with the other prominent VC firms in Silicon Valley strengthening their ties with Capitol Hill and the new Trump administration. Andreessen […]
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OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks AI ‘reasoning’ models could’ve arrived decades ago
Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says “reasoning” AI models like OpenAI’s o1 could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers “known [the right] approach” and algorithms. “There were various reasons why this research direction was neglected,” Brown said during a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose on Wednesday. “I noticed […]
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Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel
Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition are unknown. The price tag is reportedly nine figures and exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, according to Wired. Gretel and its team of roughly 80 employees will be folded […]
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AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup
Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from its earliest days,” Aggarwal said in his post. “We built what might be the world’s […]
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How User-Generated Content Helps You Build Trust and Credibility
User-generated content is a powerful tool for building trust, establishing credibility and connecting with your audiences. Here’s how to leverage it effectively.
Day Trading Isn’t Just for Outsiders Anymore — Here’s Why It’s Now an Industry Norm
Major market trends are looking good for day traders.
‘We’re Going to Be Their Boss’: Don’t Worry, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Says Humans Won’t Let Superintelligent AI Get Out of Control
An OpenAI research paper estimated that superintelligence, or AI capable of complex reasoning and problem solving, could arrive within the next decade.
Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks
In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on Frontier AI Models, […]
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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse
Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, and others, allowing posts published on one app to be seen and engaged with by those on other […]
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