Ricursive Intelligence nabs $300M to speed up chip design with AI

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Ricursive Intelligence Inc., a startup that plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up chip development, has raised $300 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation. Lightspeed led the Series A investment. Recursive disclosed in its funding announc…

cnbc - Meta Platforms is set to test new subscription models across its apps, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in the coming months.

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AI-powered perks boost premium features exclusively.

Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets

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Premium Subscriptions Coming to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

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Meta premium subscriptions are coming, here’s what you’ll actually pay for

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Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp will test premium subscriptions

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Meta plan to bundle AI tools into premium subscriptions accross its apps

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Meta tests subscriptions—free core remains intact.

Meta is testing paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

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Meta Confirms Testing of Premium Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp Subscriptions

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Meta to test premium subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

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Looking for More Paid Social Media Features? Meta Is Reportedly Testing Tons

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Facebook and Instagram might get paid subscription tiers soon

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Meta to test premium subs on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp

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Meta is ready to test subscriptions version of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

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Meta to trial premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

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Meta to test premium subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

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Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

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Meta is rolling out premium subscriptions that pair AI tools with ad-free access, pushing advanced features behind a paywall while most users remain in its ad-supported model.

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Meta reportedly plans premium subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. • Core apps remain free • Paid tiers unlock extra productivity, creativity and expanded AI features • App-specific perks, separate from Meta Verified #Meta #Instagram #F

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Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees

BeauHD / slashdot - Google is adding Gemini-powered "Suggested times" to Google Calendar, automatically scanning attendees' calendars to surface the best meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The feature also streamlines rescheduling with one-click …

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Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees

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Google's Gemini AI Will Now Generate Meeting Suggestions in Your Calendar. How It Works

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Gemini in Google Calendar now helps you find the best meeting time for all attendees

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‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief

ft - Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful AI in years to come

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Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes

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Anthropic CEO confronts AI's dangers

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Anthropic's CEO Just Published a 38-Page Warning About AI. You Should Read It.

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Anthropic CEO warns humanity may not be ready for advanced AI

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Anthropic CEO Says AI Progress Is Outpacing Society’s Ability to Control It

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‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief

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Anthropic CEO Worries Humanity May Not be ‘Mature’ Enough for Advanced AI

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Anthropic's CEO has a stark warning about AI

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Anthropic brings Asana, Figma, Slack, and more tools directly into Claude as interactive apps

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Anthropic is integrating popular work tools like Asana, Figma, and Slack as interactive apps directly into Claude. The expansion builds on the open Model Context Protocol.The article Anthropic brings Asana, Figma, Slack, and more tools directly into Claud…

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Claude powers workplace productivity with seamless app integration.

Claude AI Now Lets You Use Slack, Figma, and Canva Within the Chat

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Claude becomes a unified interface for workplace apps

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Anthropic introduces interactive workplace apps directly within Claude

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Anthropic Brings Apps to Claude

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Your Claude chats just got more powerful with interactive app support

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Claude Swallows Your Workplace Apps. The Tab-Switching Era Ends.

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Anthropic brings Asana, Figma, Slack, and more tools directly into Claude as interactive apps

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Claude now offers deeper integrations with apps like Canva and Slack

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Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools

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MCP protocol enhancements drive interactive on-screen app tools.

[AINews] Anthropic launches the MCP Apps open spec, in Claude.ai

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Anthropic integrates interactive MCP apps into Claude

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Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps

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MCP Apps, the Model Context Protocol's first official extension, turns AI responses into interactive interfaces

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MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva

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Claude AI Now Lets You Use Slack, Figma, and Canva Within the Chat

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Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.

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Microsoft unveils new proprietary AI chip Maia 200

Berry Zwets / techzine - Microsoft introduces Maia 200, an AI chip that the company claims is significantly faster than competing products. The accelerator is specifically designed to run large AI models and offers 30 percent better performance per dollar. The chip is manufacture…

#ai #cloud #hardware #ml #chips #tsmc #microsoft #datacenter #azure #semiconductor

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SK hynix becomes sole supplier of HBM for Microsoft AI chips: sources

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Microsoft Introduces Maia 200, Its Most Powerful AI Chip Yet

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Microsoft reveals second generation of its AI chip in effort to bolster cloud business

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Microsoft vs Rivals: Head-to-head comparisons

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google

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Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power

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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Stock: Maia 200 Takes on Nvidia A New AI Chip War Begins

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Microsoft introduces newest in-house AI chip — Maia 200 is faster than other bespoke Nvidia competitors, built on TSMC 3nm with 216GB of HBM3e

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Microsoft's Maia 200 AI chip claims performance lead over Amazon and Google

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Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google

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Technical specs and performance details

Microsoft unveils Maia 200 chip to supercharge AI inference

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Microsoft’s next-gen Maia 200 chip promises massive performance boost for AI workloads

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Microsoft Announces its Maia 200 AI Accelerator for Datacenters

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(PR) Microsoft Introduces Its Newest AI Accelerator: Maia 200

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Microsoft unveils new proprietary AI chip Maia 200

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Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference - The Official Microsoft Blog

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Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference

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Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference.

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Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in CoreWeave in AI-Factory Collaboration

Elias Schisgall / wsj - The companies said they would build AI factories on Nvidia’s computing-platform technology.

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Building 5GW AI data centers with $2B commitment (14)
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Advanced CPUs and GPUs boost CoreWeave's edge

Nvidia pumps another $2 billion into CoreWeave and announces standalone availability of Vera CPU — chipmaker increases stake in its customer to 9%

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NVIDIA’s “Dearest” Neocloud, CoreWeave, to Get Early Access to Next-Gen Vera CPUs in a New Deal as Jensen Hints at a Push to Dominate the CPU Market

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Building 5GW AI data centers with $2B commitment

Nvidia inks $2B in CoreWeave to build 5GW of AI factories

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Nvidia invests $2B in CoreWeave for 5GW AI capacity

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Nvidia buys $2B worth of CoreWeave’s stock to accelerate AI factory buildout

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NVIDIA (NVDA) Stock: AI Empire Expands CoreWeave Tapped for the Next Gen Infrastructure

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(PR) NVIDIA & CoreWeave's Strengthened Collab to Accelerate Buildout of AI Factories

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Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in CoreWeave Amid Data Center Project

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CoreWeave Secures $2 Billion For AI Infrastructure Expansion

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NVIDIA Seeks to Solidify AI Dominance with $2 Billion CoreWeave Stake

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NVIDIA Invests $2B in CoreWeave for AI Data Center Expansion

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Nvidia invests $2B to help debt-ridden CoreWeave add 5GW of AI compute

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Nvidia pours $2 billion into Coreweave

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Nvidia invests $2 billion in CoreWeave to expand data centers

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Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in CoreWeave in AI-Factory Collaboration

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Nvidia invests $2bn in CoreWeave in new data centre push

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CEO insights and market impacts fuel industry analysis

2 takeaways from Nvidia CEO's CNBC interview — and Jim Cramer's advice on the stock

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Here are the winners and losers (so far) in bitcoin mining from Nvidia's $2B CoreWeave investment

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Stocks surge as $2B deal sparks investor enthusiasm

CoreWeave (CRWV) Stock: Surges Nearly 10% After Nvidia $2B Investment Boost

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CRWV stock price: Why Coreweave is getting a big boost from Nvidia today

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CoreWeave (CRWV) Stock Jumps 11% on $2 Billion Nvidia Investment

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CoreWeave stock jumps 8% as Nvidia invests $2 billion to expand AI data center capacity

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Coreweave stock gains 9% on fresh $2 billion Nvidia investment

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CoreWeave spikes after Nvidia buys an additional $2 billion of the neocloud’s shares

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Nvidia is generating a record amount of free cash flow while spending record amounts on buybacks and capex. Why not buy some more CoreWeave, as a treat? $NVDA $CRWV sherwood.news/markets/core...

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Synthesia raises $200M at $4B valuation to build worker skills using AI avatars

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - London-based Synthesia Ltd., an artificial intelligence video avatar platform, today announced that it has raised $200 million in a late-stage funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $4 billion. Founded in 2017, Synthesia offers a platform that gener…

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Synthesia Raises $400 Million for AI Avatar Platform

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AI video unicorn Synthesia lands $200M to build AI agents for employee upskilling

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British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.

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Synthesia Secures $200M Funding at $4B Valuation

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Synthesia $4bn valuation confirmed after Google-led Series E

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Synthesia doubles valuation to $4BN in 12 months, following $200M funding round

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Nvidia-Backed AI Startup Synthesia Raises Funding at $4 Billion Valuation

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Nvidia and Alphabet VC arms back AI startup Synthesia at $4 billion valuation

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Synthesia hits $4bn valuation with $200m round led by Google Ventures

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UK AI start-up Synthesia hits $4bn valuation

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Synthesia raises $200M at $4B valuation to build worker skills using AI avatars

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Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out

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Your browser already runs hostile code. Could it sandbox AI agents too?

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Google's Paul Kinlan argues browsers' 30-year security model could sandbox AI agents without container overhead. Here's how Co-do proves the concept.

#ai #cybersecurity #ml #dataprivacy #google #browsers #aiethics #genai #internet #safety

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

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Your browser already runs hostile code. Could it sandbox AI agents too?

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The browser is the sandbox

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the browser is the sandbox

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Orbital raises $60M Series B to automate real estate law with AI

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Orbital, an AI platformfor real estate law, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round tosupport continued growth in the US and UK. The round was led by Brighton Park Capital andincluded parti...