Investor Kenneth Hao’s $100 million gift to UCSF targets AI and collaboration. But he warns philanthropists can’t solve all of higher education’s funding challenges.
Claude for Small Business is another sign that the AI market is moving toward AI and agents embedded in systems focused on serving the needs of daily work.

When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what to believe. “There’s a lot of misinformation about data centers,” she said. “Google has denied taking that land.” Technically, she explains, The Dalles, a city near the Washington state […]
Qualcomm has rapidly shot past its peers to become a leader in the automotive sector with a record 15 consecutive quarters of growth. How?
A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were “strongly” in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data […]
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
This is Cisco’s latest layoff in recent years, while the company’s chief executive touts record revenue and growth.
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