Verizon partners with Google on $1 billion dark fiber deal for AI
Verizon announced a $1 billion deal with Google to link data centers using dark fiber, as it converts central offices into AI-ready mini data centers.
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Enigma Raises $70M to Simplify Human-Robot Interaction
Enigma, a new robotics startup, raised $70 million in seed funding to develop intuitive interfaces for robots, aiming to make control as simple as adjusting a volume knob.
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Safe Superintelligence Partners With Nvidia to Scale AI Research
Safe Superintelligence, founded by Ilya Sutskever, has partnered with Nvidia to boost compute resources by an order of magnitude, according to the chipmaker.
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Google's AI Search Becoming Default as Usage Surpasses 43%
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% in one year, according to Similarweb data, signaling a major shift in how users access information.
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Cognizant Expands Partnership with Anthropic to Deploy Claude Enterprise
Cognizant and Anthropic announced a partnership expansion to deploy Claude across enterprise clients, with over 30,000 associates trained in Claude usage.
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Cytiva Uses AI to Accelerate Drug Discovery
Drug discovery costs have doubled every nine years since the 1950s, with average development times of 10-15 years and costs up to $2.5 billion.
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OpenAI Study Shows AI Changes Work Across Occupations
OpenAI's research reveals 43.5% of occupation-specific AI use involves tasks from other roles, with marketing and engineering tasks crossing boundaries most frequently.
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Prentis AI Lab, Co-Founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, in Talks to Raise $100M
Prentis, a new AI lab focused on computer-use models, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
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Microsoft Pushes Open-Weight AI to Boost Azure
Microsoft and 20+ partners advocate open-weight AI to strengthen U.S. tech leadership, citing a need for an open ecosystem.
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Cognition Acquires Poke AI to Enhance Coding Assistant
Cognition acquired Poke AI for a deal valued in the low nine figures, aiming to integrate its personality-driven approach into Devin, its coding assistant.
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Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
Midjourney acquired Co-Star, an astrology app with 4.3 million monthly active users, according to Bloomberg.
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NVIDIA and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab in Seoul
NVIDIA and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced a joint AI research lab in Seoul, marking the first collaboration between a Korean university and a global tech company.