If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what the internet thinks. The joke is a reference to the fictional startup Pied Piper that was the focus of …

Last August, a fire ripped through 10 acres of grass on either side of California’s I-280 near Redwood City. Traffic backed up as firefighters extinguished the blaze, and California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers directed drivers to turn around and travel the wrong way to exit the freeway. Some of those …

The founder of spyware maker Intellexa has said he is planning to appeal a conviction handed down by a Greek court on charges that he and three other executives illegally obtained personal data as part of a mass-wiretapping campaign in the country. The spying scandal, sometimes referred to as “Greek …

Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. But beneath what Anthropic’s head of economics, Peter McCrory, says is a “still healthy” labor market, early signs are pointing to uneven impacts, especially for younger workers just entering the …

This is one of those Silicon Valley real-life episodes that seems pulled from the HBO satire show. This week, some really atrocious malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Y Combinator graduate LiteLLM. LiteLLM gives developers easy access to hundreds of AI models and provides features like …

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of that work carried out by an India-based workforce of experts. The all-equity Series A round was …

and China are locked in an all-out race to build the most powerful AI on the planet. Beijing is throwing billions at homegrown models, tightening its grip on the tech sector, and watching nervously as its best AI talent gravitates to U. Yet Manus — one of China’s most buzzed-about …

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often described as a company’s “central brain” because the software connects different departments — including finance, HR, and inventory — into a single database where everyone shares the same information. In recent years, a new crop of AI-powered ERP startups, such as Rillet and …

Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has confirmed a data breach involving customer service ticket information following an incident with a third-party vendor, after a hacker claimed to have accessed user data and internal systems. The streaming site, which Sony acquired from AT&T in 2020 for $1. 18 billion, operates as a …

Canada’s BKR Capital announced Monday that its Fund II has closed CA$20 million (around $14. 5 million), bringing it closer to its CA$50 million target. This fund is looking to back “high-growth technology companies led by founders from the Black community, building solutions for the future of work, living, and …