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Sema4.ai, a three-month-old startup led by ex-Cloudera CEO Rob Bearden aiming to automate business tasks with AI, raised $30.5M and acquires AI startup Robocorp (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)

    Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Sema4.ai, a three-month-old startup led by ex-Cloudera CEO Rob Bearden aiming to automate business tasks with AI, raised $30.5M and acquires AI startup Robocorp  —  Investors in Sema4.ai’s funding round included Benchmark and Mayfield.  —  Sema4.ai,… Read More »Sema4.ai, a three-month-old startup led by ex-Cloudera CEO Rob Bearden aiming to automate business tasks with AI, raised $30.5M and acquires AI startup Robocorp (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)

    Meta partners with the Center for Open Science to share data for researching online well-being, before Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on kids’ online safety (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

      Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Meta partners with the Center for Open Science to share data for researching online well-being, before Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on kids’ online safety  —  Ahead of a major Congressional hearing about children’s online safety, Meta has… Read More »Meta partners with the Center for Open Science to share data for researching online well-being, before Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on kids’ online safety (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

      Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review: bright screen, anti-glare, Circle to Search, great camera, and seven years of updates, but pricey, heavy, and AI is a mixed bag (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

        Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review: bright screen, anti-glare, Circle to Search, great camera, and seven years of updates, but pricey, heavy, and AI is a mixed bag  —  The Galaxy S24 Ultra is packed with… Read More »Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review: bright screen, anti-glare, Circle to Search, great camera, and seven years of updates, but pricey, heavy, and AI is a mixed bag (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

        How Blackstone is building a $25B US data center empire via its QTS acquisition, using an estimated 6 GW of electricity when complete, equal to ~5M homes’ needs (Dawn Lim/Bloomberg)

          Dawn Lim / Bloomberg: How Blackstone is building a $25B US data center empire via its QTS acquisition, using an estimated 6 GW of electricity when complete, equal to ~5M homes’ needs  —  The private equity giant says landlord QTS… Read More »How Blackstone is building a $25B US data center empire via its QTS acquisition, using an estimated 6 GW of electricity when complete, equal to ~5M homes’ needs (Dawn Lim/Bloomberg)

          After fake AI images of Taylor Swift went viral, Microsoft adds safeguards to its AI text-to-image tool Designer; Microsoft couldn’t verify if Designer was used (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

            Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: After fake AI images of Taylor Swift went viral, Microsoft adds safeguards to its AI text-to-image tool Designer; Microsoft couldn’t verify if Designer was used  —  Following 404 Media’s reporting, Microsoft has made changes to… Read More »After fake AI images of Taylor Swift went viral, Microsoft adds safeguards to its AI text-to-image tool Designer; Microsoft couldn’t verify if Designer was used (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

            How Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others balance developing specialized AI chips with their relationship with Nvidia, which has an estimated 70% of AI chip sales (New York Times)

              New York Times: How Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others balance developing specialized AI chips with their relationship with Nvidia, which has an estimated 70% of AI chip sales  —  In September, Amazon said it would invest up to $4 billion… Read More »How Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others balance developing specialized AI chips with their relationship with Nvidia, which has an estimated 70% of AI chip sales (New York Times)

              AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G review: both offer solid levels of gaming performance for $329 and $229, respectively, especially with AMD’s fastest cores (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

                Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G review: both offer solid levels of gaming performance for $329 and $229, respectively, especially with AMD’s fastest cores  —  One of the most desired desktop chips designed for… Read More »AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G review: both offer solid levels of gaming performance for $329 and $229, respectively, especially with AMD’s fastest cores (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

                AR glasses maker Xreal raised $60M from an unidentified supply chain partner at a $1B+ valuation, for $300M+ in funding, and expects $100M-$150M in 2024 revenue (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

                  Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: AR glasses maker Xreal raised $60M from an unidentified supply chain partner at a $1B+ valuation, for $300M+ in funding, and expects $100M-$150M in 2024 revenue  —  – Xreal CEO says company is aiming to go… Read More »AR glasses maker Xreal raised $60M from an unidentified supply chain partner at a $1B+ valuation, for $300M+ in funding, and expects $100M-$150M in 2024 revenue (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

                  After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle will step down; IRBT drops 15%+ (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

                    Rohan Goswami / CNBC: After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle will step down; IRBT drops 15%+  —  – Amazon and iRobot mutually… Read More »After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle will step down; IRBT drops 15%+ (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

                    Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021 (Bloomberg)

                      Bloomberg: Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021  —  – EU competition watchdog was preparing to block takeover  —… Read More »Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021 (Bloomberg)

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