General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, a technology investment firm. It could be the first deal to offer inference-specific chips as collateral: chips built to run already trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in the first
While the rest of the AI industry is quick to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of AMI Labs, Yann LeCun’s global model startup, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all. “We never used the
Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment in Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla CEO Jon McNeill’s DVx Ventures. The startup, founded in 2021, has spent the last few years trying to disrupt the vehicle inspection process by making it possible to properly assess damage to a
You may have heard that OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that, along with this “command center for agency work,” OpenAI also launched a ChatGPT basketball. “This basketball comes from the Pause. Play. Prompt. campaign, a physical reminder that creativity doesn’t just live
“Your data is private. Period,” period tracker Stardust says on its website. As new research from Mozilla found, some users may find that claim overstated. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health information with third-party analytics company RudderStack. This data
Police in the United Kingdom said Thursday that the imprisonment of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport for London (TfL), the government body that oversees the UK capital’s public transport
