MK Manoylov / The Block:
Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023 — – The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm.
Profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the company prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping it can spark a “race to the top” on safety in the industry (Billy Perrigo/TIME)
Billy Perrigo / TIME:
Profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the company prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping it can spark a “race to the top” on safety in the industry — In the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make. Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO …
Google, Intel, Meta, and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote a new industry standard to connect AI accelerator chips (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google, Intel, Meta, and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote a new industry standard to connect AI accelerator chips — Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) …
Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex — A startup called Firefly that’s tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding.
Google and Magic Leap partner to work on building immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details (Katie Paul/Reuters)
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Google and Magic Leap partner to work on building immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap are forming a strategic technology partnership and working on building immersive experiences …
Hands-on with Fire TV’s Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to take conversational requests, but the results are largely disappointing (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Hands-on with Fire TV’s Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to take conversational requests, but the results are largely disappointing — Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends …
Fidelity raised the value of its X position by 4.4% to $5.51M in April; since Elon Musk’s October 2022 Twitter takeover, the position has been marked down ~72% (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
Dana Wollman / Bloomberg:
Fidelity raised the value of its X position by 4.4% to $5.51M in April; since Elon Musk’s October 2022 Twitter takeover, the position has been marked down ~72% — Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund raised the value of its position in Elon Musk’s X by 4.4% in April.
Hands-on with Sightful’s Spacetop G1, an AR laptop that pairs with XREAL glasses to offer a 100-inch virtual display, shipping in October 2024 for $1,900 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Hands-on with Sightful’s Spacetop G1, an AR laptop that pairs with XREAL glasses to offer a 100-inch virtual display, shipping in October 2024 for $1,900 — Sightful’s augmented reality computer now has a pimped design and better specs—and it’s finally available for preorder.
The FAA approves Amazon’s Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot’s line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
The FAA approves Amazon’s Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot’s line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas — Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Air drone program has been cleared by US regulators to fly devices beyond the visual line of sight of pilots …
Instagram expands its Limits tool for teens to let them restrict unwanted interactions and limit comments, messages, story replies, and more to Close Friends (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Instagram expands its Limits tool for teens to let them restrict unwanted interactions and limit comments, messages, story replies, and more to Close Friends — In a bid to combat harassment on its platform, Instagram said on Thursday it is expanding the scope of its “Limits” …
