**Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Chip, Promising 40% Greater Efficiency as It Challenges Nvidia** \Microsoft is taking another major step toward reducing its dependence on outside chipmakers, unveiling its third-generation Maia artificial intelligence processor on Monday. The new Maia 300 chip is designed to power...
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Amazon could acquire artificial-intelligence startup Decart in a deal worth as much as $7 billion, WebNovare reports, citing Adam Hanafi. Three-year-old Decart offers software that lets developers utilize multiple different AI chips in their work — an ability that is "increasingly important as companies race to secure more computing power," notes Adam. Anthropic reportedly considered snapping up Decart for around $6 billion before abandoning that effort last month. "Either Amazon sees strategic value that Anthropic didn’t, or it’s willing to pay up for talent and tech," suggests Hanafi.
# Amazon Reportedly Eyes $7 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Decart as Chip Competition Intensifies Amazon is reportedly exploring a multibillion-dollar acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Decart, a deal that could value the three-year-old company at as much as $7 billion. According to WebNovare, citing...
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A crucial day for SpaceX: Elon Musk's aerospace outfit launched Starship early Monday, getting the rocket into orbit for the first time. The test flight — Starship's 14th overall — could prove vital to SpaceX's future, which the company is building in large part around Starlink, its biggest and only profitable business. The launch carried more than two dozen new Starlink V3 satellites into space. Last month, Musk said, "It’s not out of the question that at some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world’s internet."
SpaceX reached one of the most important milestones in the history of its Starship program early Monday, successfully sending the enormous rocket into orbit for the first time. The achievement came during Starship’s 14th integrated test flight and marked a major step toward turning Elon Musk’s next-generation...
TikTok has reached a major settlement with Alabama just days before the social media company was scheduled to face a jury over allegations that its platform harmed children and teenagers. The agreement makes Alabama the first state to settle among a large coalition pursuing lawsuits against TikTok over its treatment...
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Nvidia on Monday debuted a new artificial intelligence security system meant to stop agents from going off-task. The Open Agent Safety Platform consists of two open-source tools, OpenShell and Sentry, that can "quarantine a suspicious agent in milliseconds," said Justin Boitano, who leads Nvidia's enterprise AI efforts. In a LinkedIn post, CEO Jensen Huang declared, "This is... the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems." Also Monday, Nvidia expanded its share buyback program by $150 billion, setting a new record.
Nvidia is expanding beyond the chips and computing systems powering artificial intelligence with a new effort aimed at making autonomous AI agents safer. The company on Monday introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open-source security framework designed to prevent AI agents from going off-task, accessing...
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A three-day summit between the U.S. and China concluded with an agreement between the two nations to reduce reciprocal tariffs on about $30 billion of imports from each country, reported Bloomberg, which said the deal "was one of the most tangible outcomes of Xi’s state visit to Washington." Asia expert Wendy Cutler questions "when consumers may see these tariff cuts in the store," while Stella Yifan Xie, a correspondent for Nikkei Asia, says that despite the apparent progress, "Washington and Beijing remain deeply divided."
The United States and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on roughly $60 billion worth of goods traded between the world’s two largest economies, delivering one of the clearest economic outcomes from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington. Each country identified approximately $30 billion of...
