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In Silicon Valley, where bold technical bets abound, few bets look bolder than trying to break the grip of Nvidia’s CUDA, a software stack that’s quietly become the operating system of the AI boom.That’s what Modular, a startup founded by software gurus from Apple and Google, is trying to do.Cofounders Chris Lattner and Tim Davis have spent decades building the software plumbing that sits beneath the modern tech industry. Lattner is famous for creating Apple’s Swift programming language. He also built the software underpinning Google’s TPU AI chips, with Modular cofounder Tim Davis.They’re now aiming that expertise at CUDA itself.…
This summer, after Meta made a $14 billion investment in Scale AI and poached its 28-year-old founder, Alexandr Wang, and after A-list clients like OpenAI and Google halted work with the startup, a worker for Scale AI anxiously asked ChatGPT what it thought of his company’s fate. He knew the chatbot well, having tested it for vulnerabilities. Its prognosis was grim.”Scale AI will no longer exist as a credible independent entity within 24 months,” ChatGPT, which isn’t any kind of official authority, wrote. “Its infrastructure will be repurposed for Meta’s internal needs. Its client base will evaporate. Its role as…
Last month, “Walk My Walk” hit number one on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. The moody stomp-clap tune, with lyrics like “Every scar’s a story that I survived, I’ve been through hell, but I’m still alive,” has been played more than 8 million times on Spotify. The song wasn’t performed by a human artist — Breaking Rust, despite having the face of a handsome, rugged man in a cowboy hat on its Spotify profile, is an AI project. But there is a real person claiming that Breaking Rust’s work is a copycat: Blanco Brown, an artist who mixes country…
PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — Several parents welcomed the return late Tuesday night of their children, who were abducted last month when gunmen stormed their school. “It has not been easy for me… But today, in fact, I have a little bit of joy, especially because there is still one abducted. But I am now happy with this one that I have gotten,” Luka Illaya, one of the parents in the hall, told The Associated Press. One of his sons was released, while another remains with the abductors. Freed students of St. Mary’s Catholic School wait to be reunited with their…
Charges have been upgraded to murder against a man who allegedly attacked and repeatedly stabbed a social worker last week inside a San Francisco hospital after first allegedly threatening a doctor, according to prosecutors.The charges against Wilfredo Jose Tortolero Arriechi, 34, were amended from attempted murder to murder on Monday after the victim, identified as 51-year-old Alberto Rangel, died on Saturday.Rangel died two days after he was stabbed repeatedly inside Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.Bloomberg via Getty Images – PHOTO: A man is facing murder charges after a social…
Aging taps us on the shoulder in many ways: wrinkles, thinning hair, loss of flexibility, slowing of the brain. But the process also unfolds at a more fundamental, microscopic level, as the energy source inside most cells deteriorates.Scientists at Texas A&M University have discovered a way to recharge aging and damaged cells, an innovation that could lead to better treatment for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, muscular dystrophy and fatty liver disease.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. All cells, except those in red blood, get their energy…
CEO John Stankey said he made some missteps in addressing company culture at AT&T — and shed some new light on his internal memo that went viral.The lengthy memo, which was first reported by Business Insider in August, described how the company was moving to a “more market-based culture,” setting off discourse about the state of workplace loyalty.Stankey gave some insight into the goal behind the memo during a conversation at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit on Tuesday.When asked to name a mistake he’s made, Stankey said he was too slow to tackle the “culture evolution” that was…
It’s been quite the year for Coreweave. In March, the AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in one of the biggest and most anticipated IPOs of the year that didn’t live up to its hype. Another setback took place in October, when a planned acquisition of the cloud provider’s business partner, Core Scientific, faltered due to skepticism from the acquisition target’s shareholders. In the meantime, the firm has acquired a number of different companies, its stock has gone up and down, and it’s been both criticized and lauded for its role in the booming AI data center market. In an…
Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, has raised $475 million in seed capital at a $4.5 billion valuation for his new startup, Unconventional AI. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital and DCVC. The funding is a first installment toward the goal of up to $1 billion for the round, Rao told Bloomberg. TechCrunch was first to report, back in October, that Unconventional AI was seeking this mega funding for Rao’s new startup, although the final valuation is marginally lower than the $5 billion sources told us he was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after President Donald Trump took office in January, staff at CentroNía bilingual preschool began rehearsing what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials came to the door. As ICE became a regular presence in their historically Latino neighborhood this summer, teachers stopped taking children to nearby parks, libraries and playgrounds that had once been considered an extension of the classroom. And in October, the school scrapped its beloved Hispanic Heritage Month parade, when immigrant parents typically dressed their children in costumes and soccer jerseys from their home countries. ICE had begun stopping staff members,…