Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Slash, a Gen Z-focused neobank, raised $19M in seed and Series A funding from investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures, Connect Ventures, and Y Combinator — Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo …
Intel Core i5-13600K: the best everyday CPU around
The Intel Core i5-13600K is the best cheap processor available for anyone who cares about getting better-than-decent performance.
Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”
The music legend expressed his concerns during a Milken Institute panel with Larry Jackson.
Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind
She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere near Boston has made history. The seven-week-old is one of the first people to have undergone an experimental brain operation while still in the womb. It might have saved her life. Before she was born, this little girl developed […]
Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI — A senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge …
“We must regulate AI,” FTC Chair Khan says
Khan: FTC is “well equipped” to handle AI collusion, fraud, and privacy concerns.
Video: Geoffrey Hinton talks about the “existential threat” of AI
Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton announced on Monday that he was stepping down from his role as a Google AI researcher after a decade with the company. He says he wants to speak freely as he grows increasingly worried about the potential harms of artificial intelligence. Prior to the announcement, […]
Experts say Nvidia’s H800 chip for China will likely take 10%-30% longer to carry out some AI tasks and could double some costs compared to its H100 chip (Reuters)
Reuters:Experts say Nvidia’s H800 chip for China will likely take 10%-30% longer to carry out some AI tasks and could double some costs compared to its H100 chip — U.S. microchip export controls imposed last year to freeze China’s development of supercomputers used to develop nuclear weapons …
Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED: The future is foldable
Asus delivers a visually stunning, futuristic folding laptop, but the drawbacks are many and the asking price is just too high.
AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
30-second spot set to “All Star” may inspire awe—or nightmares.