Peak XV, the venture capital firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year, is taking its portfolio companies from India, Southeast Asia and Australia on an “immersion” trip to Silicon Valley this week to meet several industry titans, the latest in the venture firm’s broadening […]
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How AI and software can improve semiconductor chips | Accenture interview
Thanks to AI, one of these days we’ll be talking about chips with trillions of transistors on them, according to Accenture.
Voices in the Dubai gaming and esports ecosystem
Dubai is part of a fast-growing region with young players who spend money on games. It’s also a magnet for those seeking to raise money.
Year of the dragon: We have entered the AI age
Like the Year of the Dragon roaring in today, 2024 will mark the year where AI is applied in real, tangible ways.
Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be ‘mind boggling’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s efforts to boost AI chip capacity would require an ‘astronomical’ quantity of water and rare earth minerals.
Runescape maker Jagex sold to investors for estimated $1.1B
Global investment firm Carlyle and CVC have agreed to sell Runescape maker Jagex to CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII and Haveli Investments.
‘World’s biggest casino’ app exposed customers’ personal data
The startup that develops the phone app for casino resort giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that was spilling customers’ private information to the open web. Oklahoma-based WinStar bills itself as the “world’s biggest casino” by square footage. The casino and hotel resort also […]
SpongeBob gets ready for Super Bowl LVIII with Roblox and Gamefam
Gamefam announced its Super Bowl LVIII event it built in partnership with the NFL last week. Here’s how the game works within Roblox.
Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season
With the rise of AI tools that can quickly create modified images and videos, making fake images to spread political misinformation leading to the upcoming US presidential election has become easier than ever. Midjourney’s solution to that might be to ban political images altogether, according […]
Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech
Xiaolang Zhang, the former Apple employee who pleaded guilty to stealing information about the development of the company’s self-driving vehicle, has been sentenced to 120 days in prison followed by a three-year supervised release. Zhang was arrested back in 2018 at San Jose International Airport […]
