Tag: ai
AI startup Wonderful valued at $5 billion in latest funding round
Synopsis The round, led by Insight Partners, included participation from Salesforce and existing investors Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer Venture Partners. ETtech(L-R)…
Apple’s AI groundwork, OpenAI chip flex, and the joys of aeroplane contrails
Cognitive warmup. Remember when as kids, looking up at the sky and seeing those long white streaks being made by an aircraft told us two…
Decoding Workday’s Copy/Paste Economy data and Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext AI
Cognitive warmup. Google DeepMind’s journey towards building relevant AI continues. It now has a model called WeatherNext AI, that will predict tropical cyclones sooner. This…
Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk’s grandiose ambitions
ON AUGUST 5TH SpaceX may have at last achieved Elon Musk’s goal of reaching the Moon—by accident. The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket,…
Milestones, dual messaging, untrustworthy AI and vibes
One year ago, we sent out the very first edition of HT Neural Dispatch. Our goal was simple: we wanted to build something that didn’t…
Elevation Capital closes $500 million India fund; to back startups building on AI’s app layer
Paytm and Swiggy investor Elevation Capital has raised a $500 million fund to back early-stage startups, betting that the next generation of AI-led companies will…
Google Pinpoint, UN’s AI mission, and Ford’s u-turn
Cognitive warmup. Google hasn’t really talked about this, but there’s a reason why I habitually call the them “the most sensible AI company, by far”….
Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario
A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs. For the past month or so, tech…
IBM’s 1-nanometer chip, Google’s AI policy pitch, and Chinese AI
Cognitive warmup. China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has an open-weight GLM-5.2 model which some researchers insist matches Anthropic’s controversial Mythos in certain cybersecurity and vulnerability identification…
Google sculpts AI for India, and witnessing Meta’s theatre
Cognitive warmup. Norway intends to ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children, with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere warning (correctly, if…