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Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel

[ad_1] Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition are

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People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images

[ad_1] Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published

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Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act

[ad_1] Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to openly support Europe’s Digital

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In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave

[ad_1] In a grandmaster-level chest move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with GPU-heavy cloud service, CoreWeave, Reuters reports citing people close to

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

[ad_1] Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference

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Klarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AI

[ad_1] The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about

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Researchers explore how to build shapeshifting, T-1000-style robots

[ad_1] Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states —

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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

[ad_1] There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s understandable

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This mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schools

[ad_1] As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called

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Your Android phone could have stalkerware. Here’s how to remove it

[ad_1] Consumer-grade spyware apps that covertly and continually monitor your private messages, photos, phone calls and real-time location are an ongoing problem for Android users.