Ex-Google execs’ Ahead Health raises $6M to catch cancer, heart disease years early with AI
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Diseases are often caught late, data is scattered across systems, and advanced diagnostics remain expensive and hard to…
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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
The Associated Press / npr - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible…
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Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws
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OpenAI buys tiny health records startup Torch for, reportedly, $100M
Julie Bort / techcrunch - AI health records startup Torch will be using its tech for OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health, according to co-founder Ilya Abyzov.
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Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products
Kalley Huang / nytimes - Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.
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Jensen Huang claims that 'god AI' is a myth — Nvidia chief says 'doomer narrative' is 'extremely hurtful'
tomshardware - Nvidia's Jensen Huang says negative narratives around AI are "extremely hurtful," and that science fiction speculation isn't connected to reality.
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Meta Platforms creates new organization to lead its AI infrastructure buildout
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new infrastructure division called Meta Compute that will be tasked with overseeing its aggressive data center buildout for artificial intelligence. Reuters reported that Meta plans to deploy new infrastructure that will…
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Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division
BeauHD / slashdot - Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest. Reuters reports: The cuts to Reality Labs, which has roughly 15,000 employees, could be announced as soon as Tuesday and are set to …
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Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in AI Drug Laboratory With Eli Lilly
Ian KingMadison Muller / bloomberg - Nvidia Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over five years in a new laboratory with Eli Lilly & Co., aiming to speed up the use of artificial intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry.
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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent
Simon Willison / simonwillison - New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a "research preview" that they describe as "Claude Code for the rest of your work". It's currently available only to Max subscribers ($100 or $200 per month plans) as part of the updated Claude Desktop macOS appl…
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Alphabet breaks through $4 trillion market value barrier
Berry Zwets / techzine - Alphabet reached a market value of $4 trillion (€3.4 trillion) on Monday. Google’s parent company surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019, making it the second-most-valuable company in the world. Only Nvidia is currently worth more. Alphabet’s share…
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Apple Confirms Google Gemini Will Power Next-Generation Siri This Year
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - In a statement shared with CNBC today, Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year."After careful evaluation, we determined that Google's technology provides the most capable f…
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Torq Raises $140M Series D Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Torq, a NYC-based agentic AI security operations provider, raised $140M in Series D funding, at $1.2 Billion valuation. The round was led by Merlin Ventures, with participation from all existing investors, including Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capi…
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Zepo Intelligence secures $15M to safeguard workspaces from AI risks
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Zepo Intelligence, the company redefining human-centric security, hasclosed a $15 million seed funding round, with participation from Kibo Ventures,eCAPITAL, and TIN Capital.Traditional cybersecurity ...
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If you’re over 65 and can still do these 8 things without reminders, your cognitive health is remarkable
Sarah Mitchell / siliconcanals - While most people over 65 rely on countless reminders and notes to get through their day, those who can effortlessly manage these eight specific daily tasks are demonstrating cognitive abilities that neuroscientists consider extraordinary for their age.
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AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them
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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches
Terrence O’Brien / theverge - Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According…
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Walmart and Google bet on AI agents to reshape how people shop online
Siamak Masnavi / coindesk - The retail giant said a new Gemini integration reflects a broader shift from search-based shopping to AI systems that can act on a customer’s behalf.
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Nvidia’s Blackwell gaming GPUs go through blower-style transformation to fuel AI data centers — RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5060 Ti blower GPUs up for purchase in China
tomshardware - China's underground GPU operations have birthed a few more spectacles, new Nvidia RTX 50-series SKUs with blower-style coolers, aimed at data centers and server farms. Listed on Taobao, the RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, 5060 Ti & more are all priced higher than thei…
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China's Open-Source AI Models Might Be Outpacing American Companies In Cost
slashgear - While companies like Google and OpenAI grab all the headlines, open-source Chinese AI models are getting faster, cheaper, and just as effective.
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