Scientist behind IBM Watson raised $60 million for Elemental Cognition
David Ferrucci, chief executive officer and founder of Elemental Cognition, speaks during a conference in New York, Nov. 8, 2017. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty Images David Ferrucci, a…
Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic or Cohere
If the tech industry’s top AI models had superlatives, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4 would be best at math, Meta‘s Llama 2 would be most middle of the road, Anthropic’s Claude 2…
Amazon is racing to catch up in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips
In an unmarked office building in Austin, Texas, two small rooms contain a handful of Amazon employees designing two types of microchips for training and accelerating generative AI. These custom…
Nvidia A.I.-driven rally pushed earnings multiple higher than Tesla
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang,speaks at the Supermicro keynote presentation during the Computex conference in Taipei on June 1, 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Following…
Supreme Court affirmative action poses challenges in hiring
Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images…
Alternative ways to invest in AI, according to two ETF experts
While ETFs holding stocks such as Microsoft, Tesla and Meta Platforms have outperformed this year, there are other ways to play the artificial intelligence trade beyond familiar Big Tech names.…
Meta’s Threads to have search and web functions, Zuckerberg says
Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta’s Twitter-like Threads app will soon get a search function and be available to access via the web. In a Threads post on…
Softbank sues social media startup IRL, alleging fake user numbers
During a recent earnings presentation, SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son (pictured here in 2019) said the company will go into “defense” mode as a result of myriad headwinds that have roiled…