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A statement Meng Wanzhou signed to make her own legal jeopardy go away can now be used against the company she helps run. A US judge in Brooklyn ruled on Tuesday that admissions made by Huawei’s chief financial officer, as part of the 2021 deal that let her walk free, are admissible in the criminal […]
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Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. The man widely credited as a principal architect of Google’s Gemini models and a co-author of the 2017 transformer paper that underpins virtually every modern large language model announced the move himself, on X: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working […]
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SK Hynix said on Thursday that it had begun shipping samples of HBM4E, its next generation of high-bandwidth memory for AI, to major customers. The number that matters is the one the chipmaker is leading with: a 12-layer stack reaching 48GB of capacity, running at up to 16Gbps per pin, with power efficiency improved by […]
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The conversation happened where these conversations usually happen, on the sidelines of a dinner. At the opening of the G7 summit in the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains on Monday, representatives of several member countries raised with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick the idea of a ‘trusted partners’ scheme that would let allied nations, or […]
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When the US government ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to its most capable models, and the company switched them off worldwide rather than try to comply selectively, it handed every advocate of home-grown AI a tidy piece of evidence. Sung Kim, chief executive of the South Korean startup Upstage, picked it up at a […]
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The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did something no piece of American paper had ever quite done before. […]
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The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google and Alphabet, gave the address at the university’s 135th commencement on Sunday 14 June, in Stanford Stadium, and chose […]
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France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a good deal of his own standing. The summit runs from 15 to 17 June, and the pitch is straightforward: position France as Europe’s AI powerhouse, running on the country’s plentiful nuclear electricity. […]
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Rivvun AI, a Seattle-based startup founded by former senior executives at contract management platform Icertis, has raised $7.55 million in an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Sitara Capital and 3one4 Capital. The company is building what it calls an autonomous AI execution layer that sits between enterprise systems and recovers money lost in the gap […]
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Hock Tan built Broadcom by buying things. So it carried some weight when the chief executive, who assembled one of the industry’s largest chip companies through a long run of acquisitions, said dealmaking has slipped down his list of priorities. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Tan said Broadcom is […]
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