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More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.  “For months now, Trump has sent federal agents to our cities to criminalize us, our neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family members,” reads the open letter from IceOut.Tech. “From Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Chicago, we’ve seen armed and masked thugs bring reckless violence, kidnapping, terror and cruelty with no end in sight.” Minneapolis has become the focal point of a large-scale federal immigration operation, employing tactics so intense…

Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 released in 2023, has been technically outfitted to run powerful AI models at faster speeds and with more efficiency, the company has said. Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance — a substantial increase over its predecessor. Inference refers to the computing process of running a model, in contrast with the compute…

Nvidia said on Monday it has invested $2 billion in CoreWeave to hasten the data center company’s efforts to add more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030. The chipmaker, already an investor in CoreWeave, said it had bought the company’s Class A shares at $87.20 per share. As part of the deal, CoreWeave and Nvidia plan to together build “AI factories” (data centers) that would use the chipmaker’s products. CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia’s products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture (set to replace the current Blackwell architecture), Bluefield storage systems, as well as…

The latest fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday has triggered a public disagreement among senior leaders at venture capital firm Khosla Ventures.Keith Rabois, a managing director at Khosla Ventures, wrote in a post on X on Saturday that “no law enforcement has shot an innocent person” and that “illegals are committing violent crimes every day.”This was in response to another X post that questioned whether federal agents or “illegal immigrants” had shot more people in Minneapolis in recent months.The founder of Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla, backed one of the company’s partners, Ethan Choi, who had replied on…

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that travels with people across borders.For decades, the fight against malaria has felt like running in place. Bed nets and drugs save lives, but the family of parasites that cause malaria, called Plasmodium, keeps evolving new ways to survive. These parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes.But something is shifting. As a malaria researcher working on my Ph.D., I study how the malaria parasite…

The clock is officially ticking. In just 5 days, the lowest ticket prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — plus the exclusive 50% off plus-one pass for the first 500 registrations — will be gone. And with more than half of those first 500 already claimed, this window is closing fast. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, this is your moment to lock in the best deal and bring a plus-one for half the price. Register now to save up to $680 on your pass and get a second ticket at 50% off. This offer ends January 30, or the moment the first 500 tickets are claimed. Whichever comes first. Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography…

The clock is officially ticking. In just 5 days, the lowest ticket prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — plus the exclusive 50% off plus-one pass for the first 500 registrations — will be gone. And with more than half of those first 500 already claimed, this window is closing fast. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, this is your moment to lock in the best deal and bring a plus-one for half the price. Register now to save up to $680 on your pass and get a second ticket at 50% off. This offer ends January 30, or the moment the first 500 tickets are claimed. Whichever comes first. Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography…

In the run-up to the winter storm currently pummeling much of the U.S., weather forecasts for some regions were all over the map, with snowfall predictions varying wildly.  Nvidia couldn’t have timed the release of its new Earth-2 weather forecasting models any better. Or, given how accurate the company claims the new models are, maybe it knew something we didn’t? The new AI models promise to make weather forecasting faster and more accurate. Nvidia claims that one model in particular, Earth-2 Medium Range, beats Google DeepMind’s AI weather model, GenCast, on more than 70 variables. GenCast, which Google released in…

2026-01-26T13:59:57.827Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. CoreWeave said Nvidia is buying $2 billion worth of its stock. The companies said Monday that they are expanding their partnership to build AI infrastructure. Nvidia has invested in CoreWeave, which is one of its customers, before. Nvidia is getting the checkbook out again for CoreWeave, buying $2 billion…

For years, parents alleged that top social media companies had gotten teens hooked on their products with addictive design features, arguing in legal filings these choices led to depression, anxiety, eating disorders – and in some tragic circumstances – death.These stories helped spur a sweeping regulatory movement that led states and governments around the world to pass laws restricting teens’ use of social media and forced tech companies to take bolder actions to protect young people.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Now, those concerned parents will make their argument…