Every three months, public companies brace for analyst questions during quarterly earnings calls. But what if firms could predict these queries in advance and rehearse their responses? That’s one of the capabilities touted by Simile, a new A.I. startup spun out of Stanford and backed by acclaimed researcher Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy….
Artificial intelligence has quickly become the focal point of nearly every major technology debate today—the safety of each system’s model, algorithmic bias and its impact on the future of work. The challenge isn’t theoretical. Beneath those headline concerns lie a more immediate concern: power. A.I. systems require continuous, power-dense computation at a scale few industries…
Meta’s reputation as one of Silicon Valley’s biggest A.I. spenders, but with little to show for it so far, is spooking much of Wall Street. But hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman isn’t fazed. Ackman’s New York-based fund, Pershing Square, disclosed this week that it has taken a nearly $2 billion stake in Meta, equivalent to…
With Valentine’s Day on the way, it’s time to start planning your food and beverage-based wooing strategies — and for many, that involves two quintessential symbols of romance: chocolate and wine. But how do you make sure you pick the right wine and chocolate to pair together? We asked two experts to weigh in: Jennifer…
Just days after Elon Musk merged his A.I. startup, xAI, with SpaceX in preparation for a widely anticipated trillion-dollar IPO later this year, two of xAI’s founding employees—Yuhuai (Tony) Wu and Jimmy Ba—announced their resignations. That means half of xAI’s founding team has now left the company barely three years after its launch. Musk framed…
Mistral AI co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch knows that it isn’t just France but all of Europe that relies on his startup to deliver an alternative to U.S. powerhouses like OpenAI. In its first-ever foreign A.I. infrastructure investment, the Paris-based company is committing 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) to build data centers across Sweden, it…
Oura Rings, the smart bands made by Finnish company Oura, are seemingly everywhere these days—they’ve been spotted adorning the hands of tech CEOs, celebrities and athletes alike. They’ve even made their way into the Olympics. As Team USA’s inaugural “Official Wearable,” Oura Rings will be provided to U.S. Olympians and Paralympians to track sleep, stress…
With Lunar New Year just around the corner, palate memories of Asian-themed dishes tempt me and fuel my desire to cook. Of course, the choices seem endless, but this year in an effort to make dishes that are quick to prepare as well as delicious, I’m turning to a simple beef stir-fry. OK, I’ll probably…
Hugging Face, the A.I. startup known for its GitHub-like hosting platform used by millions of developers and businesses, is pushing back against Silicon Valley’s obsession with relentless fundraising and hyper growth. The New York City-based company, which hasn’t raised venture capital in more than two years, is in no rush to seek new funding or…
The last time the U.S. sent astronauts to the Moon was Apollo 17 in 1972. More than half a century later, NASA is preparing to do it again. Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission of the Artemis era, will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to demonstrate that its new…
