Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October
Tom Warren / theverge - I exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the company has officially revealed that its sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft curr…
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OpenAI signs contract to buy $300 billion worth of Oracle computing power over the next five years — company needs 4.5 gigawatts of power, enough to power four million homes
tomshardware - OpenAI and Oracle have signed one of the largest technology deals in history, worth $300 billion. Over five years starting in 2027, Oracle will provide OpenAI with over 4.5 gigawatts worth of computing power to help power ChatGPT and other AI products and…
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Perplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation
Marina Temkin / techcrunch - The AI-powered search startup's valuation jumped from $18 billion two months earlier.
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Arm debuts AI-optimized Lumex chip lineup for mobile devices
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Arm Holdings plc today introduced a new portfolio of chip designs that handset makers can use to develop mobile processors. The product family is known as Lumex. It includes central processing units, graphics processing units and an interconnect module. S…
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Ted Cruz’s new bill would let AI companies set their own rules for up to 10 years
Elissa Welle / theverge - On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced legislation to create a regulation "sandbox" that would allow artificial intelligence companies to experiment with minimal federal oversight. The SANDBOX Act, if passed by Congress, would allow companies to apply for…
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Reddit, Yahoo, and other publishers roll out licensing protocol, pressuring AI companies to pay for scraped data
techspot - Announced earlier today, Really Simple Licensing, or RSL, is an open, decentralized protocol developed by the non-profit RSL Collective. Built on the widely used RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, it can handle any digital content – web pages, book…
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Anthropic reports outages, Claude and Console impacted
Dominic-Madori Davis / techcrunch - Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon.
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Oracle and OpenAI Seal Massive Compute Deal Amid AI Surge
In a landmark move shaking up the cloud computing landscape, OpenAI has committed to a colossal $300 billion compute deal with Oracle – a pact that has sent Oracle’s shares soaring. The partnership underscores a strategic pivot towards AI-powered solutions, fueling optimism and a refreshed vision of enterprise tech dominance.
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Publishers demand payment from AI through new licensing protocol
Maria Garcia / implicator - Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.
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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic
Benj Edwards / arstechnica - Microsoft will end OpenAI's exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.
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Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar
Elissa Welle / theverge - For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, …
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Oracle stock booms 40%, on pace for best day since 1992
cnbc - The cloud giant is on pace for its best day since 1999, and is now quickly approaching the $1 trillion market cap benchmark
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Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable
Tobias Mann / theregister - Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth? Analysis Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled the Rubin CPX, a GPU designed specifically to accelerate extremely long-context AI workflows like those seen in code assistants such a…
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Lookout uses AI to guard against mobile social engineering threats
Ian Barker / betanews - As we do more and more on our mobile devices it’s clear that the front line of cyber defense isn't the corporate server it's the employee's phone. As AI boosts social engineering, hackers are bypassing traditional firewalls to target people directly with …
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Black Forest Labs inks $140m deal with Meta, reports say
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Arm unveils AI‐optimized mobile chip designs for Android devices
Arm has introduced its latest generation of mobile chip designs specifically engineered for enhanced AI performance. The new chips promise improved efficiency for next‐generation Android devices, injecting a fresh twist into the competitive mobile tech race with a hint of futuristic bravado.
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Google Cloud CEO sees sunny days ahead thanks to AI demand
Thomas Claburn / theregister - We're making billions on AI, how about you? Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says the Chocolate Factory's rental computing business has $106 billion of unfulfilled contracts, and he expects Google Cloud will be able to realize about half of that in revenue …
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Reflection AI Nears $5.5B Valuation Amid AI Frenzy
Nvidia-backed startup Reflection AI is edging close to a $5.5 billion valuation as it rides the wave of AI innovation. Both Reuters and Financial Times report on its deal-making momentum and rapid growth, underscoring the dual sense of excitement and cautious optimism in the tech investment community.
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Microsoft Partners With Anthropic for Office 365 Copilot Integration
Microsoft has struck a noteworthy deal with Anthropic to integrate its advanced AI models into Office 365 Copilot, signaling a marked shift from earlier reliance on other vendors. The move is aimed at enhancing productivity and user experience across the office suite by leveraging cutting-edge AI capabilities, and it underscores Microsoft’s broader strategy to embed sophisticated machine intelligence in its products.
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Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - Nvidia's relentless development cycle has resulted in enormous profits for the company, which brought in $41.1 billion in data center sales in its most recent quarter.
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