Experts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge, but experts think it — and tools like it — fall well short of PR promises. “This preliminary tool, while interesting, doesn’t […]
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U.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigation

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. The full text of the decision will be published shortly, the CMA said. The CMA began investigating Microsoft’s partnership in […]
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Grain emerges from stealth with $50M to help any business hedge against FX volatility

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Foreign exchange fluctuations can make or break a business that trades across borders, but trying to respond to that can be tricky if you’re anything smaller than the world’s largest enterprises. Today, a startup called Grain is emerging from stealth with a product it said will let finance teams from companies of any size better […]
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Airplanes of the Future Could Be Fitted with Feather-Like Flaps

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency.

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ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

The SoftBank-backed chipmaker has signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to bolster the country’s chip design ecosystem.
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Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It’s now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field has won two men the highest honor in computer science.

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Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Last month, press leaks revealed the existence of the January order asking Apple to build a backdoor in iCloud’s encrypted backups. U.K. officials are exercising […]
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Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks to expand internationally, especially in the U.S. The funding is being co-led by KKR and Partners Group, and is a mix of primary and secondary […]
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Qualcomm CEO says its new modem creates a ‘huge delta’ in performance versus Apple

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

It has taken some time for Apple to release its first modem and it did so with the launch of the iPhone 16e last month. The cellular modem is called the C1.

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CoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & Biases

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 billion on the transaction. Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25 billion in 2023, and it recently filed for an IPO. Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis founded Weights & Biases […]
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