Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $ 265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to invest in just six […]
X is cleared to go back online in Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s X could return online in the country, marking the end to a months-long battle between the social media platform and Brazilian officials. Addressing the reasons that X was banned in the first place, Musk agreed to take down some user accounts and appoint a legal representative […]
The White House joins Reddit and shares hurricane information
VP Kamala Harris is on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, FEMA has a page dedicated to fighting the rumors circulating on social media about the hurricanes, and now the White House is on Reddit. It’s clear that the traditional means of disseminating news and information to the general U.S. population have changed. As a big […]
Fei-Fei Li picks Google Cloud, where she led AI, as World Labs’ main compute provider
Cloud providers are chasing after AI unicorns, and the latest is Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs. The startup just tapped Google Cloud as its primary compute provider to train AI models, a deal that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But Li’s tenure as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud wasn’t a factor, […]
Tesla Robotaxi reveal: What to expect
Tesla is gearing up to reveal its Robotaxi this Thursday, and everyone wants to know what it will look like, whether Tesla will unveil a commercialization strategy, and what outrageous timelines Elon Musk might announce to bump Tesla’s stock. The “We, Robot” event will take place at 7 p.m. PT at Warner Bros. Discovery’s movie […]