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Cloud Computing
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced plans to build its largest artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana, marking a $10 billion investment. The facility is expected to transform Richland Parish, a rural area with high poverty rates, creating 500 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs. The project includes
Media
Perplexity, an AI-driven search engine, is growing its publisher program by partnering with major news outlets, including the LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and several others. The program allows publishers to share ad revenue and track content performance using provided metrics, provided they remain in the program. New Partners
Military & Defense
OpenAI has entered into a partnership with defense technology company Anduril Industries to integrate its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into Anduril's counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS). This collaboration aims to enhance the detection, assessment, and real-time response to aerial threats, marking a significant shift in OpenAI's engagement
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AWS has announced a major enhancement to its SageMaker platform at the annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. SageMaker, AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) and generative AI models, is now integrating a curated set of third-party AI applications. This move aims
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has announced an exciting "12 Days of OpenAI" event, unveiling a new feature or model every weekday for the next two weeks. This event promises to showcase cutting-edge AI advancements, some of which have been hinted at in the past but remained unavailable
Media
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that you can now follow fediverse accounts directly on Threads. While the feature is limited in scope, it marks another step in Threads’ journey toward full interoperability with the fediverse, a decentralized social network ecosystem. View on Threads How It Works The integration allows
Media
BuzzFeed, once valued at nearly $2 billion, is now scrambling to address a $124 million debt crisis that could determine the company’s future. This pivotal moment may force the digital media pioneer to sell key assets, including its popular interview series "Hot Ones." The Debt Deadline Today
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Google has introduced Veo, a generative AI video model now available in private preview via Google's Vertex AI platform. Unveiled in May 2024, Veo enables businesses to create high-quality 1080p videos from text or image prompts, offering various visual and cinematic styles. While the preview doesn't
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled a new AI supercomputer, "Ultracluster," powered by its custom Trainium2 chips, aiming to challenge industry leader Nvidia. This initiative includes the "Ultraserver," designed to connect 64 Trainium2 chips, offering enhanced performance and cost efficiency for AI model training. AWS'
Energy
Meta Platforms Inc. is actively seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers to supply between 1 and 4 gigawatts of nuclear-generated electricity for its U.S. data centers, aiming for operational capacity by the early 2030s. This initiative aligns with Meta's commitment to environmental sustainability and addresses the escalating
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As 2024 comes to a close, Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, a $4.5 billion AI startup, has unveiled bold predictions for the artificial intelligence industry in 2025. Known for his insightful forecasts, Delangue anticipates major public protests against AI, disruptive market changes, and groundbreaking advancements in technology. Here’
Business Insights
On Monday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger unexpectedly announced his retirement after serving less than four years. While officially framed as a retirement, reports indicate that the company’s board of directors forced him out, citing dissatisfaction with the speed of Intel’s recovery efforts. This leadership shake-up leaves Intel at