In September 2015, the Founders Fund hosted a retreat at an eco-resort in British Columbia. Most of the attendees were VCs and people from the companies the firm was backing, but they also invited a few outsiders, including computer pioneer Alan Kay, writer Neal Stephenson, and me. One morning at breakfast I was sitting across … Read more
Overview Nemotron-3-Diarization is an open-weight speaker diarization model from NVIDIA that identifies who spoke when in real-world audio. Its most important distinction is that one checkpoint supports offline processing and streaming operation with up to eight speakers, with configurable output resolution in multiples of 10 ms and chunked inference that removes a maximum-duration limit. The … Read more
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children. The case was scheduled to go to trial on Monday. According to the Alabama attorney general’s office, TikTok could end up paying the state a total … Read more
For many years, Vietnamese football fans who wanted a free Premier League stream with local commentary knew exactly where to go. ‘Xoi Lac TV’ and its sister sites offered pirated streams featuring all major leagues, switching to new domains each time a blocking order caught up with the last one. For the operators involved, these … Read more
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Israeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic offensive in a desperate attempt to pressure the Iranians to open to Strait of Hormuz. In the latest episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down why the regional … Read more
Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration. “The department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the department’s … Read more
Tonight, we go inside the Victorians, the Hillsborough mansions and the bunk-bed flats where tomorrow’s unicorns sleep, and ask the question nobody at demo day wants asked: what happens when the house becomes the product and the whole thing’s a scandal? This week a private spreadsheet naming more than 100 alleged predators in Silicon Valley … Read more
Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. That’s more than six times the size of a $1.8 billion deal between the two companies that Bloomberg reported in May. The commitment isn’t ironclad; according to Akamai’s securities filing, it depends on Akamai meeting certain delivery and service-availability requirements, … Read more
Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity. This includes a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, which accused Meta of training its … Read more