Alexander Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, wrote in a memo to employees on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab. report From Axios. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is accurate. As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other companies race to build the most powerful…
Langchain raises $125 million at $1.25 billion valuation, company announced On Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was Raising fresh money at a valuation of at least $1 billionAs we previously reported, the deal was led by IVP. New investors CapitalG and Sapphire…
In March, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy organization disbanded its energy policy team, cutting dozens of staff. Now, some of them have founded a new organization, the nonprofit clean economy project, Similar for decisive energyThe organization is betting that clean energy can beat fossil fuels on cost, if not today, then in the near future. According…
President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a deal on Monday that will invest billions of dollars in critical minerals projects. The US and Australia together will contribute $3 billion to the projects in the next six months. The governments said the total project pipeline is worth $8.5 billion. As part of…
open evidenceA tool that doctors and nurses have compared to ChatGPT for medicine is planning to announce a $200 million raise at a $6 billion valuation, New York Times report, The fresh funding comes three months after the startup raised $210 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion, evidence of intense investor interest in industry-specific…
Spotify is introducing a new feature that will let users follow venues to get updates and details on concerts happening there. The venues you follow are saved to your library, and you can browse them to view the events calendar, information and announcements about scheduled concerts. Users can also filter upcoming shows at locations by…
An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has affected large parts of the web, including websites, banks and some government services. Amazon said Monday morning that the outage had been “fully mitigated” and that most services were returning to normal after a long period of hours during which much of the Internet…
Home goods maker Kohler recently unveiled a new device called Decoda — a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of the inside. CNET report Decoda analyzes these images to provide updates on your gut’s health and hydration, and potentially detect blood. It comes with a rechargeable battery, a…
“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” This is what Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann Lecan said It has been told The setback comes after OpenAI researchers trumpeted GPT-5’s reported math successes. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind couple“It’s shameful.” decoder reports In a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil announced that “GPT-5 found solutions to 10…
A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction to stop Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group from targeting users of the messaging app. Additionally, the judge dramatically reduced the fine that NSO Group would have to pay to Meta. Earlier this year, a jury decided that the cyberintelligence company must Pay…
