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Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models

Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the lead developer of Slurm, and launched the Nemotron 3 family of open source AI models.

Creative Commons announces tentative support for AI 'pay-to-crawl' systems

The organization offered support for this idea of an AI marketplace, and suggested several guiding principles.

Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital

The massive fund haul will allow the Silicon Valley firm to continue to invest in cash hungry AI startups.

OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.3B valuation

Chai is building foundation models for drug discovery, specifically to predict interactions between molecules so they could be reprogramed for cures.

VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power

The next consumer tech revolution may require an introduction of a new personal device.

Databricks raises $4B at $134B valuation as its AI business heats up

The data intelligence company has just raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation — up 34% from the $100 billion valuation that it achieved just three months ago.

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar joined Decoder this week to discuss the company’s “code red” response to AI, including its own new AI Assist chatbot. You might be able to guess where this is going.

Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks

We introduce FrontierScience, a new benchmark that evaluates AI capabilities for expert-level scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry, and biology.

A new Micro RGB TV is coming from LG

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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.