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WorkAcquiring AI talent wholesale | TechCrunch Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of… WorkEx-Google engineers who founded Character.AI rejoin company with new AI partnership In March, Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of AI startup DeepMind that Google acquired in 2014, and much of its staff to lead AI initiatives. Suleyman became an executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Last month, U.K. regulators opened a merger probe on Microsoft's hiring of the staff.
WorkNvidia is reportedly in the DOJ antitrust hot seat “Nvidia wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark results and value to customers,” an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement shared with Quartz. “We compete based on decades of investment and innovation, scrupulously adhering to all laws, making Nvidia openly available in every cloud and on-prem for every enterprise, and ensuring that customers can choose whatever solution is best for them. We’ll continue to support aspiring innovators in every industry and market and are happy to provide any information regulators need.” WorkUS probes Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI startup CNMN Collection WIRED Media Group © 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Ars Technica Addendum. Ars may earn compensation on sales from links on this site. Read our affiliate link policy.Your California Privacy Rights | Do Not Sell My Personal Information The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.Ad Choices
WorkWorkPrisoner Deals Stoke Fears of Perverse 'Incentive' to Grab Americans In a joint statement, Speaker Mike Johnson and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, called for “serious action to deter further hostage-taking by Russia, Iran, and other states hostile to the United States.” The two Republicans offered no specifics about what steps should be taken, however.
WorkHarris Has Votes Needed to Be Democrats' Nominee, D.N.C. Says Although her place atop the ticket had essentially been a foregone conclusion once Mr. Biden endorsed her after dropping out last month, Ms. Harris has brought her party together remarkably quickly, raising more than $200 million, drawing thousands of people to her rallies and energizing her party’s base. Work
WorkHarris Won Enough Votes to Be the Democratic Nominee Now, with the party uniting behind her, Harris is using the lessons from her troubled 2020 campaign to reintroduce herself to the American public as a different type of presidential candidate, my colleague Astead Herndon wrote. Here’s how she has changed. Work
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WorkWorkWatch: Why did Wiz walk away from $23 billion? So it sounds like Google being willing to make such a huge offer gave Wiz’s leadership confidence that if they continued on an independent path, Wiz might be worth even more than $23 billion one day — maybe as a public company, or if not, then as an even more expensive acquisition target. WorkWorkWhat's behind the stock market's brutal 2-day crash? One factor experts say likely wasn\'t at play? Steep losses from mega-cap names, Hatfield added, were likely not a big driver of the market dip. Intel shares plunged 26% after the company reported a big earnings miss and announced mass layoffs, while Amazon’s stock fell 9% after a disappointing earnings call. But Apple, America’s largest company, emerged from Friday’s session slightly up. Work'Reputational car crash': insiders rue BBC's handling of Huw Edwards Another news source said: "Surely there comes a point between [being arrested in] November and [his resigning in April] where they could have said: 'You've brought the BBC into disrepute already and now you've been arrested.' There was a way of getting rid of him, and him not having that pay rise. WorkHuw Edwards should return BBC salary paid after arrest, says Lisa Nandy The BBC said: “We fully appreciate the complexities and confidentiality of [the internal investigation] can be frustrating for those who have come forward … but we are extremely grateful to everyone who did so and will always listen with great care to anyone who wants to raise concerns with us.” WorkWorkAlan Garber Will Stay On as Harvard's President Harvard has spent more than a year thoroughly besieged. Last summer, the Supreme Court struck down the university’s race-conscious admissions program. In the fall, Harvard\'s hesitating response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel led to a campus uproar. WorkWorkShapiro's College-Era Criticism of Palestinians Draws Fresh Scrutiny “They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own,” he wrote in the essay, published in the Sept. 23, 1993, edition of The Campus Times, the student newspaper. “They will grow tired of fighting amongst themselves and will turn outside against Israel.” WorkAlongside the Trump-Russia Inquiry, a Lesser-Known Look at Egyptian Influence Mr. Trump’s foreign business ties and efforts by foreign interests and government to influence him have come under scrutiny again as he seeks to return to the White House. The little-known investigation into possible Egyptian influence shows both the intensity of past efforts to explore the issue and how they have fueled Mr. Trump’s long-running assertions that he has been subject to a “witch hunt.” WorkWorkThe Veepstakes (Pennsylvania's Version) So today, amid a whirl of speculation, we’re going to home in on just one guy — Shapiro — and the biggest, baddest swing state of them all: Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes. Shapiro, 51, became a Democratic darling when he won the 2022 governor’s race by nearly 15 percentage points, and he has since become the state’s most popular first-term governor since the early 1990s. WorkAgency Votes to Replace Official Accused of Rushing Start of Seabed Mining Ms. Carvalho has said she does not support a moratorium on seabed mining or a formal pause in the start of the effort. But in an interview, she said that she did not believe industrial-scale mining could start until environmental regulations are finalized and that it could take several years to do so. WorkDeath of Black Man at Milwaukee Hyatt Is Ruled a Homicide The Milwaukee Police Department last month referred felony murder charges to prosecutors against four people but did not name them. The police said that an underlying charge of battery was also referred against the four. The referrals essentially amount to a recommendation. WorkWorkWorkKamala Harris Hires Top Obama Advisers, Building Out Campaign Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager in 2012, will now be a senior adviser for message and strategy. Mitch Stewart, Mr. Obama’s 2012 battleground states director, will be a senior adviser for the battleground states this year. Jennifer Palmieri, a former Obama and Clinton communications director, will be a senior adviser to Ms. Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff. WorkNot One of Us: Trump Uses Old Tactic to Sow Suspicion About Harris Over decades, the tactic of othering has been wielded against candidates with various backgrounds, characteristics and traits, among them race, ethnicity, gender, economic class and religion — all in the service of making them seem alien to voters. And it has often been effective. In 1928, Republican opponents seized on the fact that Al Smith, the Democratic candidate for president, was a Roman Catholic, suggesting that he would therefore be beholden to the Pope. WorkWorkWorkWorkDelta gives employees free flights for dealing with the CrowdStrike outage The CrowdStrike outage, which started with a glitchy cybersecurity software update, affected Delta’s internal computer systems more seriously than other airlines. It was cancelling hundreds of flights days after other carriers’ troubles had subsided. Bastian said the incident had cost Delta $500 million. WorkThe Dow closes 600 points lower as recession fear resurfaces Intel’s stock plummeted over 26% by the end of the day following a significant earnings miss in the quarter ending in June. The company also announced it would be laying off more than 15% of its employees. The company’s cost-reduction plan is part of moving “toward a sustainable business model” to support its long-term strategy, Intel said. WorkWorkWendy's CEO is bullish on breakfast despite earnings miss All the breakfast and bundle chatter didn’t keep Wendy’s from missing Wall Street’s expectations. During the second quarter, the chain reported revenue of $570 million, about 27 cents a share. Analysts expected it to report $577 million, or 28 cents a share. WorkIntel stock falls 27% after missing revenue expectations The company’s shares are down 55.7% so far this year. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 945 points, or 2.3%, to 39,430, during mid-day Friday trading. The Nasdaq also fell 3%, and the S&P 500 was down 2.6%. WorkWorkDraftKings stock tanks after it reveals plan for new surcharge on winning bets However, DraftKings lowered its adjusted earnings guidance for the full year to between $340 million and $420 million, down from $460 million to $540 million. Robins said the surcharge could provide a boost to annual adjusted earnings when it launches next year. But “even if we don’t get any benefit from the fee, we will see still $900 million to $1 billion in adjusted EBITDA next year,” he said during a Friday earnings call. WorkWorkThe FTC is coming after high grocery prices The agency’s efforts also come as FTC Chair Khan has been at the center of conversation between Republicans and Democrats. Khan, known for her tough antitrust stance, has opposed big mergers and launched investigations into major companies (including Kroger’s $25 billion bid to buy Albertsons). Although progressives support her, many tech and Wall Street figures have been pushing for her removal. WorkExxonMobil's earnings reveal record crude production “An energy-abundant future, driven by economic growth and rising levels of prosperity, creates opportunity for ExxonMobil no matter the speed or direction of the energy transition,” Woods said on the company’s earnings call. WorkTrump Media stock rises on its new 'uncancellable' live TV streaming platform The company’s stock has been branded a meme stock due to its extremely volatile trading patterns, with investors largely trading on sentiment rather than actual business performance. Shares of Trump Media surged more than 50% after an assassination attempt on the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last month. WorkTesla lawsuit blames 'defective and inadequate' Autopilot for deadly crash Tesla has also been accused of false advertising by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles and investigated by the state attorney general’s office over its marketing practices related to its tech. The Department of Justice has opened a separate investigation into Musk and Tesla for their claims about Autopilot. Musk has repeatedly over-promised and failed to deliver on his claims about Tesla’s rapid advancement in autonomous driving. WorkAmazon exec blames Trump and the Olympics for weak sales On its cloud computing side, however, Amazon boasted an expected surge that would put it ahead of its competitors, including Microsoft and Google. Chief executive Andy Jassy said in a call with analysts Thursday that AWS has launched more than twice as many machine learning and generative AI features into general availability than all the other major cloud providers combined over the past 18 months. 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