The Michigan primary is a test of Biden’s Gaza policy
Editor’s note, February 28, 12:01 am ET: President Joe Biden won Michigan’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, although vote totals — including the share of “uncommitted” votes — are still being determined. The original story that follows was published February 27. Arab American activists and their allies are urging voters to cast ballots as “uncommitted” in […]
VCs look to AI data centers, local LLMs, and domain models for growth
Looking to break out of the slowdown in deal activity and exit values, venture capital firms are going all in on emerging AI opportunities that show the potential to deliver long-term growth. Pitchbooks’ latest Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Report released today reflects the continued challenges VCs face, starting with dropping deal activity and exit […]
Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI startup, has announced its own alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic with Mistral Large, its large language model. In a blog post, the company described Mistral Large as a “cutting-edge text generation model” with “top-tier reasoning capabilities.” According to Mistral AI, can be used for “complex multilingual reasoning tasks” such as […]
How strong is Nintendo’s legal case against Switch emulator Yuzu?
Enlarge / Chopping Yuzu into three parts is not a proposed legal remedy, for now… Yuzu Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze LLC, the makers of the popular Yuzu emulator that the Switch-maker says is “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale.” The federal lawsuit—filed Monday in the District Court of Rhode Island and […]
China’s next cultural export could be TikTok-style short soap operas
Web novels are a unique form of literature that has been popular on the Chinese internet for much of the last two decades: long stories that are written and posted chapter by chapter every day. Each chapter can be read in less than 10 minutes, but installments will keep being added for months if not years. […]
Dailyhunt in talks to acquire social network startup Koo
Media startup Dailyhunt is in advanced stages of talks to acquire the Bengaluru-headquartered social network Koo, two sources familiar with the matter told me. The potential deal under discussion involves a share-swap agreement and could be finalized within weeks, the sources added, requesting anonymity as the matter is private. The deliberation follows Koo, which has […]
Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander Odysseus will soon be dead, ending its mission
Odysseus, the first privately developed spacecraft to touch down on the lunar surface, has only hours left to live, the company that operates it said Tuesday, bringing an end to a historic mission, marked by a daring, last-minute engineering change and a stumbling landing that no Olympic judge would score a 10. Attempting to dodge […]