#Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently

#Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently

Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson…

Read More
#ARM to sign 0M chip deal with Malaysia

#ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia

Malaysia has become a hotspot for chip manufacturing due to increasing tensions between the U.S. and China, especially around the development of semiconductors used for AI applications. Predictably, tech firms around the world have been looking to diversify their source of chips, and ARM Holdings is now hoping to make the most of this opportunity….

Read More
#Trump Administration cuts may threaten AI research efforts

#Trump Administration cuts may threaten AI research efforts

The Trump Administration has fired a number of National Science Foundation employees who had been handpicked for their expertise in AI, threatening the agency’s ability to sustain key AI research, Bloomberg reported. One of the affected departments inside NSF, called the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, was instrumental in funneling government grants focused on…

Read More
#People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now

#People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now

Thought Pokémon was a tough benchmark for AI? One group of researchers argues that Super Mario Bros. is even tougher. Hao AI Lab, a research org at the University of California San Diego, on Friday threw AI into live Super Mario Bros. games. Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 performed the best, followed by Claude 3.5. Google’s Gemini…

Read More
#Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers

#Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers

There’s lots of scrutiny involving China obtaining advanced Nvidia chips despite strict U.S. export controls, with Chinese merchants already reportedly ordering Nvidia’s powerful Blackwell GPUs. On Thursday, Singaporean police arrested three men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips, Singapore’s national broadcaster Channel News Asia reported. The three men, two Singaporeans and one Chinese citizen, were charged…

Read More
#Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7

#Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be a part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event,…

Read More