Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B
At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it just raise $143 million.
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Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions
The startup also announced a $5M ‘rescue fund’ to help credit unions ditch legacy software for its AI-native platform.
The dictionary sues OpenAI
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.
Encyclopedia Britannica is suing OpenAI for allegedly ‘memorizing’ its content with ChatGPT
On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it used their copyrighted content to train its AI, then generated responses that were “substantially similar” to their content, as previously reported by Reuters. According to Britannica, OpenAI repeatedly copied its content without permission, stating, “GPT-4 itself has ‘memorized’ much […]
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage
Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. You’ll hear Jim refer […]
How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect
GTC is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically announces new products, partnerships, and its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI.
This is not a fly uploaded to a computer
Last week, a few posts about a so-called virtual “embodied fly” tore through X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn’t seem to understand what it was they were excited about. The videos came from San Francisco-based Eon Systems, which says it’s working toward “digital human intelligence” and claims it wants to […]
OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic
OpenAI’s delayed “adult mode” for ChatGPT is expected to support saucy text conversations at launch, but not the chatbot’s ability to generate images, voice, or video. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, an unnamed OpenAI spokesperson described content that will be provided by the upcoming feature as smut rather than pornography, allowing ChatGPT users to […]
Google, Accel India accelerator choses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’
Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were “wrappers” as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.
ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator
The company is reportedly delaying the launch as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues.