EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%
The appointments follow a record year of US applications, up 237% in twelve months. The team comprises Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who sold FrontPage to Microsoft. He invested early in Etched…
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Workers are being told to use AI, but not why to use it
That's one of the findings from a survey by Culture Amp for its How Employees Really Feel About AI at Work report. The majority (85%) of the 112,000 global respondents polled said their employer encourages "exploration…
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Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI
The briefers listed also comprise Yoshua Bengio, who is co-chair of the UN’s panel on AI, and Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face. Last week, an OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that Sam Altman is…
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Waze's route preview does what Google Maps can't: show me traffic before I leave
The app does an incredible job of getting me from point A to B, while also providing me with all the info I need about business hours, reviews, and more. But the one thing it's never been particularly great at is giving…
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Turning your old PC into a media server is easier than it sounds
The process is far easier than you may assume. In the span of an afternoon, you can have your own, private Netflix or Spotify alternative that lets you stream your media files to nearly any device in your home. Nearly…
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How do animals sense the Earth’s magnetic field?
But despite this evidence, there’s no consensus as to how animals actually sense the magnetic field. Magnetic cues appear to be used by animals in all sorts of circumstances , not simply for long-distance navigation.…
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Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
Since it was spun out of Australian cryptocurrency mining company Arkon Energy two years ago, Nscale has amassed over $103 billion worth of contracts, according to its IPO filing . But there’s a catch: Most of that…
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DoorDash agrees to pay $131.5M to settle New York City probe into delivery worker pay
The deal with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ends a dispute that began early in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. “Simply put, we screwed up,” DoorDash said in a post about the…
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I could lose my phone without losing any of my files thanks to this backup plan
It could happen today, next week, or on a random Tuesday. With that in mind, I keep everything on my phone backed up at all times. I back up regularly to both the cloud and external storage. The former is automatic and…
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Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
The longer-term target is 1 GW of capacity across the country, with Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 systems providing the computing power to run AI applications from UK-owned facilities. The Hertfordshire site is expected to…
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