Scale AI, a company that provides data-labeling services for training machine learning models, has raised a $ 1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors including Amazon and Meta. The raise, which constitutes a mix of primary and secondary funding, comes amid a boom in AI venture capital megarounds, […]
MLB umpire dreadfully doubles down on Aaron Boone ejection
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was at the center of a controversial ejection Monday, and the explanation given by MLB umpire Hunter Wendelstedt may have been even more baffling. During the first inning of the 2-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics, Boone wanted to appeal a check swing call on a hit-by-pitch. Wendelstedt had […]
Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment
Amazon invested a further $ 2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $ 1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps they’ve realized that there are no other horses available to back. The September deal put $ […]
Nigerian Pop Artist Shills Meme Coin and Price Briefly Doubles — Followers Question Artist’s Motives
The Nigerian pop artist and celebrity, Davido, recently posted several tweets endorsing ‘rapdoge,’ the so-called “first deflationary meme token fully supported by celebrities & rappers.” In one of the tweets, Davido tells his 9.5 million followers to “buy $ 20, $ 100 or $ 1000 worth of rap doge tokens and be ready to make […]