Technology

Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud

April 2, 2025

Cloud infrastructure is dominated by several large industry players: AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google Cloud. While to some it may look like AI is headed in a similar direction, the founders of Parasail think AI infrastructure will look very different — and are betting their company’s fate on it. Parasail works with dozens of providers to […]

Actively AI raises $22.5M to offer sales ‘superintelligence,’ says AI SDRs failed

April 2, 2025

Actively AI argues that most AI sales reps have “failed.” It just raised $22.5 million.

DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics

April 2, 2025

Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the AI field, with naysayers suggesting that it’s little more than a pipe dream. Others, including major AI labs like […]

Redwood Materials preps for expansion spree with new R&D center in San Francisco

April 2, 2025

Redwood Materials has been on an expansion tear in recent years — growth that has extended the lithium-ion battery recycling and materials startup’s footprint well beyond its Carson City, Nevada headquarters as it locked up deals with Toyota, Panasonic, and GM, started construction on a South Carolina factory, and made an acquisition in Europe. And […]

Epic Games acquires Loci to introduce automated 3D tagging

April 2, 2025

Epic Games announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Loci, an AI platform for automated tagging 3D assets. The deal will help creators with the labor-intensive process of tagging as well as to help detect potential intellectual property (IP) violations. Loci, which uses computer vision models to understand 3D content, automatically tags 3D assets, making content […]

WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff

April 2, 2025

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals. Ahead of the layoffs, Automattic’s website listed 1,744 employees, which means north of 270 people may have lost their jobs. (Automattic […]

The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie

April 2, 2025

Rippling released the affidavit of the its employee who admitted he was spying for Deel.

Epic Games CEO calls Apple and Google ‘gangster-style’ businesses in need of competition

April 2, 2025

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, whose company makes Fortnite and tools for other developers, including Unreal Engine, called out Apple and Google as “gangster-style businesses” engaged in illegal practices while speaking at a Y Combinator event on Wednesday. The executive also emphasized how the big tech companies’ practices directly affected his own business by scaring […]

Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026

April 2, 2025

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a Series A round as it works to launch its first low Earth orbit demonstration in 2026. The San Carlos, California-based startup, which came out of stealth last October, aims to eventually launch a constellation of […]

Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.

April 2, 2025

Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid conversations with Observer, two Wikimedia executives explain why ChatGPT and its competitors can’t function without Wikipedia—and why that dependence might destroy it. Read More