Wikipedia Turns 25, Sells Access To Amazon, Meta, Microsoft And Other AI Giants

Wikipedia turned 25 years old today. Now, its audience is increasingly all the massive big tech AI answer engines around the world, rather than humans.

SiFive To Integrate NVIDIA NVLink Fusion For Next-Gen AI Data Center Chips

SiFive has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its forthcoming silicon platforms.

Raspberry Pi’s new add-on board has 8GB of RAM for running gen AI models
Raspberry Pi’s new add-on board has 8GB of RAM for running gen AI models

Raspberry Pi is launching a new add-on board capable of running generative AI models locally on the Raspberry Pi 5. Announced on Thursday, the $130 AI HAT+ 2 is an upgraded – and more expensive – version of the module launched last year, now offering 8GB of RAM and a Hailo 10H chip with 40 […]

The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China

The Trump administration formalized its 25% cut of H200 chip sales in China with a tariff that applies to certain semiconductors.

Jay And Silent Bob, Meet Slackbot

Salesforce introduces Slackbot, embedding MoE agentic AI into Slack for personalized, permissioned workplace productivity boost.

OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs

OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup. The startup is valued at $850 million.

Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others

The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org’s content, like Wikipedia, at scale.

US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet on sexualized deepfakes

In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit and TikTok, several U.S. senators are demanding the companies provide proof that they have “robust protections and policies” in place, and how they plan to curb the rise of sexualized deepfa…

Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months to $3B with $350M raise

The massive round was led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation from other returning backers.

Higgsfield Raises $130 Million As Generative AI Video Becomes Marketing Infrastructure

Higgsfield raises $130 million as brands adopt generative video for high volume marketing production, hitting a $200 million run rate in under nine months.