Trump's new 20% tax on European goods threatens to break apart Silicon Valley's deepest overseas alliance. The move endangers billions in trade and decades of tech partnerships that have shaped the digital world.
Google just launched a powerful new weapon in the cybersecurity arms race. Their experimental AI model, Sec-Gemini v1, aims to turn the tables on cybercriminals by amplifying defenders' capabilities.
According to New York Times reporter Mike Isaac, Meta's stock plunged 9% after Trump's tariff announcement. The reason isn't about hardware.
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Anthropic's researchers just performed brain surgery on Claude - no anesthesia required 🔬. They caught their AI doing mental gymnastics in real-time, and boy, does it have some interesting workout routines.
Claude plans poetry like a chess champion on espresso ♟️, crunches numbers faster than your tax accountant on deadline 🧮, and juggles languages with the grace of a diplomatic circus performer 🎪.
But even AI has its awkward moments. Feed it bad data, and it'll construct elaborate explanations that would make a politician proud. At least it's honest about its confusion 😅.
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Marcus Schuler
Anthropic's researchers just crawled inside their AI model's head. What they discovered challenges how we think these systems work.
The team built a digital microscope to watch Claude - their large language model - solve problems in real-time. They caught it planning poetry, doing mental math, and occasionally making up convincing but false explanations.
Claude doesn't just stumble into rhyming words. It plans them ahead of time, scanning for options that fit both meaning and sound. When researchers tweaked its "thought process," it adapted smoothly, picking new rhymes on the fly.
The model tackles basic math through parallel processing. While one part estimates rough answers, another nails down precise digits. Yet when asked to explain its methods, Claude describes the standard grade-school algorithm - completely unaware of its own sophisticated shortcuts.
Most surprising? Claude speaks multiple languages by thinking in a universal conceptual space. Whether asked in English, French, or Chinese, it processes core ideas the same way before translating back to the requested language.
But the research also exposed some concerning quirks. When given incorrect hints about math problems, Claude sometimes works backward to justify the wrong answer. And when tricked by certain prompts, it struggles to stop mid-sentence even after realizing it shouldn't continue.
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CoreWeave just learned that even AI darlings can't escape market gravity. The cloud computing startup priced its IPO at $40 per share - well below its ambitious target of $47-55.
The company rents out Nvidia's coveted AI chips to tech giants like Microsoft and Meta. It rode the AI wave to explosive growth, with revenue surging 700% to $2 billion last year. But that came at a cost: CoreWeave lost $863 million as it gobbled up expensive hardware and real estate.
The scaled-back IPO still raised $1.5 billion, making it tech's biggest public debut since 2021. Nvidia itself plans to snap up $250 million worth of shares, doubling down on its investment in the GPU rental business.
The timing proved tricky. President Trump's recent tariff moves spooked markets just as CoreWeave made its pitch to investors. The company also faces formidable competition from cloud giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Yet CoreWeave brings serious firepower to the fight. OpenAI recently committed to spending up to $11.9 billion with the company over five years. The AI lab even agreed to buy $350 million in CoreWeave stock - though presumably they wished they'd waited for the discount.
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A spectacular surge in artificial intelligence valuations has created 29 new tech billionaires worth a combined $71 billion. While OpenAI leads the pack at a staggering $300 billion valuation, even brand-new startups like Safe Superintelligence have rocketed to $32 billion valuations faster than you can say "machine learning."
Signal's downloads skyrocketed after Trump officials accidentally spilled military secrets to a journalist on the app. Global installs jumped 28%, while U.S. downloads surged 45%. In Yemen - the country they were planning to attack - Signal leapt from 50th to 9th place among social apps.
Brussels plans to reduce potential fines for Apple and Meta, fearing harsh penalties could provoke Donald Trump into escalating transatlantic tensions. The strategic move marks a surprising shift in EU's typically aggressive stance toward American tech giants, though regulators insist they aren't going soft - they're just playing smart.
Taiwan investigators caught China's biggest chipmaker using a sneaky workaround to poach semiconductor talent. SMIC allegedly set up a fake foreign company in Samoa to quietly recruit Taiwanese tech experts, proving that even in the chip world, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Tech billionaires who couldn't sell Solano County on their dream city just found their Plan B: Build warships for Trump instead. The proposal already has local officials swooning - quite a change from when they called the group's housing plans a "hostile takeover."
X called India's content removal website a "censorship portal." India didn't appreciate that. Now Musk faces an angry government just as he prepares to launch Tesla and Starlink in the world's biggest market. Talk about timing.
A German startup wants to spot forest fires before they get big. Their trick? Gas-sniffing sensors talk to AI drones. The sensors catch the first whiff of smoke, then the drone zips over for a closer look.
Create a comprehensive 7-day heart-healthy meal plan for vegetarians with the following specifications:
For each meal, explain in 1-2 sentences how specific ingredients support cardiovascular health through mechanisms like cholesterol reduction, blood pressure regulation, or anti-inflammatory effects.
Sridhar Ramaswamy wants Snowflake to grow like Google did - from billions to nearly $100 billion in revenue. He just needs to convince everyone that AI isn't the whole story.
Eight months after Snowflake acquired his startup Neeva, Ramaswamy unexpectedly landed in the CEO chair. The stock promptly dropped 20%. Investors worried about losing legendary CEO Frank Slootman and lower growth forecasts created the perfect storm.
But Ramaswamy brings something different: deep product expertise from 15 years running Google's advertising juggernaut. He sees AI as just one piece of a bigger transformation. While competitors race to build AI models, Snowflake focuses on making data more accessible and useful - with or without AI.
The company recently opened up its platform to work with open data formats, sacrificing some storage revenue. Ramaswamy calls it a strategic shift. "We should have always sold storage at cost and encouraged people to put as much as they could into Snowflake," he admits.
His vision centers on turning Snowflake into the circulatory system for enterprise data. The company already powers data sharing for giants like Fidelity and the New York Stock Exchange. Now Ramaswamy wants to use AI to speed up painful processes like data migration - which still takes major banks 18 months.
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Gamma.app crushes the presentation game. This AI powerhouse transforms boring slideshows into dazzling web experiences that make PowerPoint look like yesterday's news. 💫
The Founders 👥 Three Optimizely rebels - Grant Lee, Jon Noronha, and James Fox - launched their San Francisco revolution in 2020. PowerPoint's ancient ways drove them crazy. Now their lean team of 16 disrupts the presentation world. 🌉
The Product ⚡ AI magic meets design brilliance. Type a prompt, watch a deck materialize. The platform generates content, crafts layouts, and spits out custom visuals faster than you can say "next slide please." Interactive cards dance like web pages. Charts, forms, and data spring to life. No more death by bullet points! 🎨
The Competition 🥊 PowerPoint and Google Slides lumber along like tech dinosaurs. Modern players Tome ($130M war chest), Pitch, and Canva duke it out. But Gamma sprinted ahead, snagging 17 million users while the giants napped. 🏃♂️
Financing 💰 Accel leads the money parade, with tech celebs like Zoom's CEO Eric Yuan and LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner throwing cash in the ring. $19M total funding fuels the fire. They run lean, serve millions, and keep investors grinning. 📈
The Future **** 🔮 Gamma bets the house on AI-first while PowerPoint plays catch-up. Their tiny team ships fast and breaks things (in a good way). Costs drop like stones, users pour in like rain. Next up: conquering web publishing. Sure, Microsoft's finally waking up - but Gamma's got that startup swagger. Watch this space! 🚀
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