MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B round led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund created by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company aims for its processors to be 10 times better in LLM training and performance than Nvidia’s GPUs. … Read more
Late last year, New York Assemblyman Alex Bores became the target of a pro-AI super PAC campaign to derail his bid in Congress. The Leading the Future group is armed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Bores’ answer … Read more
Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, has confirmed that there has been a data breach. On Friday, Figure spokeswoman Alethea Jadick told TechCrunch in a statement that the breach occurred when an employee was tricked into using a social engineering attack that allowed hackers to steal a “limited number of files.” The statement said the … Read more
Since first introducing Apple Intelligence in 2024, Apple has been promising a new and improved top-notch AI-powered Siri. Since then, the release date for this new era of Siri has been constantly pushed back. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we may have to wait even longer. While the new Siri was … Read more
Apple CarPlay users may soon be able to talk to their favorite AI chatbot. According to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, Apple is reportedly working on how to support AI chatbot applications within CarPlay. Apple CarPlay is an application that runs on the iPhone and communicates wirelessly with the vehicle’s infotainment system. It projects some apps … Read more
On Thursday, WordPress launched a new Claude connector that allows site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data they want to share, and access can also be revoked if the user chooses. Notably, Claude has read-only access, which means he won’t be able to change anything in … Read more
As Intel continues to struggle to turn itself around, its CEO has promised that the company will start making a new type of chip that rival Nvidia has taken a liking to. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced at the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday that the company will begin manufacturing graphics processing units (GPUs). These … Read more