Meta Platforms creates new organization to lead its AI infrastructure buildout

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new infrastructure division called Meta Compute that will be tasked with overseeing its aggressive data center buildout for artificial intelligence. Reuters reported that Meta plans to deploy new infrastructure that will…

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Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in AI Drug Laboratory With Eli Lilly

Ian KingMadison Muller / bloomberg - Nvidia Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over five years in a new laboratory with Eli Lilly & Co., aiming to speed up the use of artificial intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry.

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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent

Simon Willison / simonwillison - New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a "research preview" that they describe as "Claude Code for the rest of your work". It's currently available only to Max subscribers ($100 or $200 per month plans) as part of the updated Claude Desktop macOS appl…

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Alphabet breaks through $4 trillion market value barrier

Berry Zwets / techzine - Alphabet reached a market value of $4 trillion (€3.4 trillion) on Monday. Google’s parent company surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019, making it the second-most-valuable company in the world. Only Nvidia is currently worth more. Alphabet’s share…

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Torq Raises $140M Series D Funding

FinSMEs / finsmes - Torq, a NYC-based agentic AI security operations provider, raised $140M in Series D funding, at $1.2 Billion valuation. The round was led by Merlin Ventures, with participation from all existing investors, including Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capi…

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Zepo Intelligence secures $15M to safeguard workspaces from AI risks

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Zepo Intelligence, the company redefining human-centric security, hasclosed a $15 million seed funding round, with participation from Kibo Ventures,eCAPITAL, and TIN Capital.Traditional cybersecurity ...

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AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them

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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Terrence O’Brien / theverge - Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According…

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Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

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China's Open-Source AI Models Might Be Outpacing American Companies In Cost

slashgear - While companies like Google and OpenAI grab all the headlines, open-source Chinese AI models are getting faster, cheaper, and just as effective.

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Meta lines up massive supply of nuclear power to energize AI data centers

techxplore - Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes.

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Biggest change to Gmail in 20 years

news.com.au - Google has unveiled it will incorporate new AI tools to its popular email platform in a significant update that will impact billions of users. There are mixed reactions.

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'Baldur's Gate 3' Game Studio Says 'Divinity' Won't Include AI-Generated Art

Jason Nelson / decrypt - Larian Studios head Swen Vincke said the upcoming RPG Divinity will not use generative AI art, though the studio still sees benefits to the tech.

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OpenAI and SoftBank announce $1 billion investment in SB Energy as part of massive AI buildout

cnbc - OpenAI and SoftBank agreed to invest $1 billion into a SoftBank-backed energy provider as the companies prepare for a massive buildout of AI data centers.

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DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report

Jon Swartz / techstrong - DeepSeek is preparing to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V4, in mid-February, according to a report in The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company's plans. The upcoming release marks the Chinese s…

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