The Next Web

SAP buys Prior Labs to anchor a European frontier AI lab around tabular foundation models

Eighteen months after a €9m pre-seed, the Freiburg-based pioneer of TabPFN is being acquired by SAP and will receive more than €1bn over four years. The terms are not disclosed; the strategic intent ...
SFGate

AI data centers, already harmful, appear to be creating their own microclimates

As global temperatures rise, data centers for artificial intelligence are creating “heat islands” that could have significant impacts on communities and their surrounding environments in the years to ...
Android Authority

Over a decade later, Spotify finally brings this useful desktop playlist tool to mobile users

Spotify is finally rolling out playlist folder creation and management to its iOS and Android apps, ending a 15-year wait for the desktop feature. Users can now create folders, move playlists into ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Microsoft Aims to Create Large Cutting-Edge AI Models By 2027

Microsoft Corp. aims to develop large, cutting-edge artificial intelligence models by next year, part of a push to build in-house alternatives to the most powerful AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Making This Astonishing Scale Model of Every Single Building in New York City

In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood. Although he had intended to stop there, he realized he was hooked. “Then the ...
The New York Times

The Work of Robert Moses? No, It’s Joe Macken.

A delivery truck driver from Queens created a scale model of New York City. After 10 million views on TikTok, his mini Gotham has moved to Museum Mile. By John Freeman Gill The parachute jump, a ...
Finextra

Mastercard takes wraps off new GenAI model

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Unlike the popular large language models trained on huge ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Creating Deep Dive Analysis with Alternative Data

Join us for a session highlighting how alternative data can be used to create deep dive analysis on public equities. With this we will uncover near real-time US consumer trends / insights that may not ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta to Create New Applied AI Engineering Organization

Meta Platforms META-9.43%decrease; red down pointing triangle is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to help bolster the company’s superintelligence efforts, according to an internal ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...
SiliconANGLE

Fundamental launches with $255M and an AI model optimized for tabular data

Artificial intelligence startup Fundamental Technologies Inc. launched today with $255 million in initial funding from a group of prominent investors. The company raised the bulk of the capital ...