Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100 GPUs for Reels, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, the metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more — Caeser Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more — Mark Zuckerberg on: — Llama 3
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 — The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot's seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) …
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022 — Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today.
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year — - Microsoft's data-center capacity jumped in recent quarters, a leaked internal presentation shows.
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel — Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …
Sheena Vasani / The Verge:
TikTok starts rolling out TikTok Notes, its Instagram rival for sharing photo and text content, for limited testing in Australia and Canada on Android and iOS — TikTok has started rolling out its Instagram rival, TikTok Notes, to select Android and iOS users “for download and limited testing in Australia and Canada.”
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Data Protection Board says large online platforms like Meta should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising — Meta Platforms (META.O) and other large online platforms should give users an option to use their services …
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
Bellwether, a new group inside Alphabet's X innovation lab, plans to offer AI tools to the US National Guard to analyze images of disaster areas in summer 2024 — The National Guard will soon use the tech giant's image-recognition AI to scan images of disaster zones and help prioritize its response
FinSMEs:
Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers an AI-powered virtual CISO service for managed service providers, raised a $20M Series A led by Canaan — Cynomi, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based vCISO platform provider for MSPs and MSSPs, raised $20M in funding. — The round was led by Canaan, with Flint Capital …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The Linux Foundation announces the Open Platform for Enterprise AI, to foster the development of open, multi-provider, and composable generative AI systems — Can generative AI designed for the enterprise (for example, AI that autocompletes reports, spreadsheet formulas and so on) ever be interoperable?