Why “Concept Of Operations” Is Vital For Ukraine’s Drone Swarms

Drone swarm developers DK NEJET believe the technical challenge of drone swarms may be less important than how they are used.

Yes, You Can Mix Self-Driving Cars And Urbanism

Self-driving cars are not “just more cars,” but how will they mix with the urbanist dream of a more pleasant city?

Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI
Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI

Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China, with German customer Henkel joining as an investor. The new production network is going to the US and Japan, not Europe…

Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line
Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line

A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’s request to throw the case out. Apple won part of its expedited discovery on Tuesday, and was refused part of…

How A Detroit Facility Seeks To Advance Transportation Technology

The Detroit Smart Parking Lab is working with startups and other companies to advance mobility.

Microsoft Azure executive asked teams to find 20% cost cuts, report says
Microsoft Azure executive asked teams to find 20% cost cuts, report says

A senior Microsoft cloud boss has asked team leaders to find ways to cut costs by at least 20%, The Information reported, citing people who know about the plans. We have not independently verified the report, and Microsoft disputes it. “Azure leadershi…

Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government
Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government

Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. The memorandum covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research o…

Bumble agrees to be bought by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3bn
Bumble agrees to be bought by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3bn

Bumble has agreed to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings in an all-cash deal valuing the dating app at about $1.3 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Ithaca will pay $6.05 per Bumble Class A share, about 138% more than the stock’s closing price on Octob…

Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition
Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition

Anthropic’s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei set out in July, when he wrote that open-weight models without dangerous…

Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says
Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says

Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that streamed games will become a $38B market by 2035 and that the dedicated console will stop being a mass-market product. The case depends on surplus GPU capacity pushing compute prices down late this decade, which ha…