google on thursday Issued The latest version of Gemini Pro, its powerful LLM. The model, 3.1, is currently available as a preview and will be released generally soon, the company said. Google’s new model could be one of the most powerful LLMs ever. Onlookers have noted that the Gemini 3.1 Pro appears to be a…
If you work in tech, wired is new main story It’s not really going to shatter your worldview, but it’s still a really great read. Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to explore a subculture that’s been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men…
SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a 9.2 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant on the Ohio-Kentucky border. report From Bloomberg. If completed, it would be the largest power plant in the US, capable of powering approximately 7.5 million homes. With a price tag of $33 billion, the project will be more expensive than…
OpenAI is close to a deal to raise more than $100 billion at a valuation of more than $850 billion. Bloomberg report, Citing sources familiar with the matter. The deal comes as the ChatGPT-maker is burning through cash as it moves towards profitability. In this regard, OpenAI has said that it will soon launch Advertisement…
What would have been a moment of united commitment to global technological innovation in the present times India AI Impact Summit What proved to be a rather awkward one: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of solidarity, all the executives on stage…
Faced with tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs and greater pressure to show real momentum quickly, startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever before using AI. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and the Foundation model make it easy to get started, but once startups move beyond free credits and into actual cloud bills…
The data breach affecting blockchain-based lending giant Figma has affected nearly one million customers, according to a security researcher. last week, Chitra confirms data breach Hackers were allowed to steal a “limited number of files” from its systems. The company did not disclose what type of data was stolen nor did it say how many…
Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission. Bug, first reported bleeping computerCopilot Chat was allowed to read and outline the contents of emails since January, even though customers had data loss prevention policies in place to prevent their sensitive information from being included…
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today That he will join the firm as a general partner. This news is a huge deal, especially since Altman has been running his own VC firm, Alt Capital, since at least 2024. The fund raised a $150 million Fund I in early 2024 and then, last September, $274 million…
Thrive Capital recently raised $10 billion for a new fund – its largest fund raised to date and almost double the size of its previous fund. Of this, $1 billion is dedicated to early-stage investments, while the rest is for growth-stage investments, according to a Announcement from the firm. Thrive told Bloomberg this was its…
