Job seekers often have to jump through hoops throughout the recruitment process. At Anduril, they’ll have to fly through courses—drone courses, to be exact. The defense tech company is offering engineers the opportunity to secure a job interview and compete for a cash prize of $500,000 in the AI Grand Prix, a new racing competition…
Microsoft this week (Jan. 26) unveiled its latest in-house A.I. chip, Maia 200, calling it “the most efficient inference system” the company has ever built. Microsoft claims the chip outperforms rival Big Tech processors such as Amazon’s Trainium 3 and Google’s TPU v7 on key benchmarks, while delivering 30 percent better performance per dollar than…
With Super Bowl Sunday approaching, I’m on the lookout for a nosh that is scrumptious and easy to prepare. White cheddar cheese topped with wine-soaked cherries and herbs is the perfect answer. The dried cherries need to soak in a mixture of wine, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, herbs de Provence and salt for 2 to…
Self-driving startup Waabi has spent the past five years becoming a dominant force in the world of autonomous trucking. Now, armed with $1 billion in new funding, it’s gearing up to take on a new challenge: the robotaxi market. The Toronto-based venture raised $750 million in an oversubscribed Series C round co-led by Khosla Ventures…
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, artificial intelligence was no longer framed as an emerging technology. It was treated as infrastructure. Across panels, private dinners and side conversations, the debate had clearly shifted: the question is not whether A.I. will transform economies and institutions, but who can operationalize it at scale under tightening…
On Jan. 28, 1986, the world stood still. Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, Space Shuttle Challenger was lost, along with its seven-member crew: Francis “Dick” Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. The tragedy unfolded live on television, imprinting itself on a generation and forever changing the trajectory of…
By Kristina Peterson, Bloomberg News The first Pepsi Challenge tour in 50 years didn’t feature regular or even Diet Pepsi. Instead, the blind taste-test showdown last year pitted Pepsi Zero Sugar against Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Related Articles Tuck into dinner by the fire at one of these Bay State dining spots The secret to perfect…
We’re digging out from the weekend’s snow and making our way through a Boston winter. Hunkering down may be the order of the day, but when we do venture out, it should be worth our while. How about dinner in front of a fireplace? Boston (and some lovely Cape towns) is dotted with dining spots…
Anthropic is known for its stringent safety standards, which it has used to differentiate itself from rivals like OpenAI and xAI. Those hard-line policies include guardrails that prevent users from turning to Claude to produce bioweapons—a threat that CEO Dario Amodei described as one of A.I.’s most pressing risks in a new 20,000-word essay. “Humanity…
As A.I.’s capabilities grow, the technology is creeping into workplaces, schools, homes and possibly dentists’ chairs soon. Dentio, a Swedish startup betting on dental clinics as a prime use case for A.I. assistants, has just secured $2.3 million in fresh financing to support its ambitions. Andreessen Horowitz led the startup’s pre-seed funding round, with other…
