Slack Gives Its Digital Assistant an AI Upgrade
While the Slack digital assistant has long handled basic tasks like helping new users get started on the service, Salesforce has much bigger aspirations for it.
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Meta Considers Doubling Ray-Ban Glasses Production
The company is scaling back its hardware efforts as it goes big on smart glasses.
Microsoft Pledges to Pay Higher Electricity Rates for Data Centers, Curb Costs for Households
The announcement comes amid growing political opposition to new data centers.
TSMC to Significantly Expand Chipmaking Investments in the U.S.
The investments are part of trade negotiations between the U.S. and Taiwan
House Passes Bill to Limit China’s Remote Access to U.S. Chips
The bill could close the loophole in existing export controls where Chinese companies can access advanced chips via overseas data centers.
Trump Signals White House Working With Microsoft, Others on Electricity Costs
He said Americans should not “pick up the tab” for the electricity consumed by data centers.
Anthropic’s Amodei: AI Could Make CRISPR-Level Advances
Anthropic aims to use AI to solve problems in healthcare and the life sciences.
OpenAI to Buy Healthcare App Torch in $100 Million Deal
Employees from the startup are joining OpenAI.
CoreWeave Hits First Data Center Milestone in Texas, Internal Message Shows
The site was the focus of the data center delay CoreWeave encountered late last year.
Crypto Custodian BitGo Eyes Up to $1.96 Billion Valuation in IPO
BitGo is set up to be the first crypto IPO in 2026.
Meta Plans to Cut 10% of Reality Labs Employees, Report Says
The cuts signal that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is curtailing Reality Labs' spending after years of steadily mounting losses.
Paramount Plans Proxy Battle for WBD Board Seats
The Ellison family's Paramount isn't giving up its battle for control of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Anthropic Announces Virtual Coworker Tool
Cowork is yet another example of Anthropic’s push into enterprises, the main customer for its Claude models.
Meta Forms New Initiative to Plan for Compute Needs
Meta Compute will be co-led by the Meta executives Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross
Meta Appoints Dina Powell McCormick as President and Vice Chair
The appointment installs an executive with long experience in both government and global finance to help the social media company as it spends heavily on AI development.
Anthropic Unveils New Healthcare Features for Claude
The move comes just days after OpenAI announced personal health features for ChatGPT.
Google Unveils AI Shopping Tools for Gemini
Google's new AI shopping tools follows earlier efforts by OpenAI to make ChatGPT a place for people to buy things.
Indonesia Blocks Grok Over Sexual Imagery
Earlier this week some Democratic senators called on Apple and Google to take Grok out of their app stores over the same issue.
Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Funds Keep Outperforming Its Other Funds
The performance preceded a fall sell-off in crypto prices.
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