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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursday. The figure is striking for a firm that bootstrapped
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Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founder and chief executive Jeff
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The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They
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John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It is the largest right-to-repair win in the US
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Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limburg. Level 4 means the
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Every organization has two technology environments. The one that IT built, documented, and maintains visibility over, and the one that employees assembled around it to get their work done faster. The second environment is shadow IT, and in most enterprises, it is larger, more varied, and more deeply embedded in
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Two 15-year-olds in San Mateo learned this week that a driverless taxi can still tell on you. The pair were drinking alcohol and shooting Orbeez, soft water-filled pellets, out of a moving Waymo on Monday afternoon. The car’s remote monitors spotted it, called 911, and pulled the vehicle over
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On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and
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* Universal's new movie SOULM8TE is coming to digital platforms on August 1 * The plot is very similar to recent horror hit Obsession * SOULM8TE is a spin-off to the 2022 movie M3GAN, focusing on more adult themes If you haven't seen Obsessionyet, you need to. It'
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In a bid to lower its GPU costs amid an unprecedented component shortage, Meta is on track to start making the latest versions of its AI-specific chip in September, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo. At least one chip sailed through its testing phase in about six weeks, the memo
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An Amazon EC2 instance running LiteLLM and connected to Amazon Bedrock was compromised and used for cryptomining, according to new research from Darktrace. In this case, the mined cryptocurrency was Monero (XMR). The company said the EC2 instance, named “LiteLLM-Proxy,” appeared to operate as an AI gateway and had an
