Peak XV, the largest India and Southeast Asia-focused venture firm, is reducing the size of some of its funds and lowering fees as it seeks to become “deeply aligned” with its limited partners. The firm, which raised $2.85 billion funds in mid-2022, informed its backers […]
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No, Tim Walz Is Not Friends with School Shooters
Right wing lawmakers, pundits, and trolls have jumped on the moment in the vice presidential debate when Tim Walz said he was “friends with school shooters.”
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4
Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.
The first new Game Pass titles for October include Inscryption and Sifu
While there’s a much bigger title coming to the service later in the month, Xbox has revealed the first five Game Pass additions for October. Among them are some newcomers to the new Game Pass Standard tier. Baseball sim MLB The Show 24 and the […]
eBay removes UK seller fees to counter new wave of marketplace startups
E-commerce giant eBay, facing stiff competition from newer rivals, has removed final-value sales fees for all items excluding cars sold domestically in the U.K. This mirrors a similar move the company made in Germany last year and notably puts eBay in line with the likes […]
Here’s how Sonos hopes to win back your trust after its app debacle
It’s been a disastrous few months for Sonos after the company botched a major overhaul of its mobile app. In an effort to win back users’ trust, the company has laid out a plan that includes several new commitments. “Our priority since its release has […]
Threads will show how many followers you have in the fediverse
Meta has been steadily improving Threads’ compatibility with the fediverse over the last year. Now, the company is taking another significant step with an update that allows users to see more details about their followers and interactions with people from other servers across the fediverse. […]
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands, where he’s based, but didn’t say which Anthropic team he’ll be […]
The unsealed New Mexico Snapchat lawsuit alleges the company ignored child safety
On September 5, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a lawsuit against Snap. Torrez claimed that Snapchat has become a platform rife with sexual exploitation, child grooming and other dangerous behaviors. That legal complaint was heavily redacted, but today, Torrez announced in a press […]
Inference framework Archon promises to make LLMs quicker, without additional costs
Stanford researchers presented Archon, a framework that can cut down on inference costs and allow LLMs to perform better.