City to set up company this year to fast-track San Tin I&T hub as firms eye move

City to set up company this year to fast-track San Tin I&T hub as firms eye move

Hong Kong authorities will set up a company this year to accelerate the development of an innovation hub near the border, with firms already expressing interest in moving into the San Tin Technopole, a senior tech official has said. Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Kevin Choi Kit-ming also told the South China Morning Post that some companies might …

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Golf star Bryson DeChambeau leads acquisition of Seattle-area startup Sportsbox AI

Golf star Bryson DeChambeau leads acquisition of Seattle-area startup Sportsbox AI

Bryson DeChambeau swings while the Sportsbox AI app captures his motion on a smartphone. (Sportsbox AI Photo) First Bryson DeChambeau used Sportsbox AI to win a major. Then he invested in the Bellevue, Wash.-based startup. Now he’s taking a swing at the entire company. DeChambeau, the two-time U.S. Open champion and one of golf’s most tech-obsessed players, is leading a …

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Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, an effort to prevent AI cyberattacks with AI

Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, an effort to prevent AI cyberattacks with AI

We see a lot of doom and gloom about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, particularly centered on how it could create new problems in cybersecurity. Anthropic has announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing to help address those concerns by working “to secure the world’s most critical software” against AI-powered attacks. The endeavor includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, …

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I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee | TechCrunch

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee | TechCrunch

Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million shoestring budget, has released its new reasoning model. Arcee calls the model Trinity Large Thinking — and it’s the most capable open-weight model “ever released by a non-Chinese company,” claims CEO Mark McQuade to TechCrunch. As that comment implies, Arcee has a …

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X has a slightly more functional photo editor now

X has a slightly more functional photo editor now

X is rolling out an update to its in-app photo editor that gives users the ability to edit photos with xAI’s Grok, blur faces and overlay text on images. The new editing features, in particular the addition of text-based edits via an AI assistant, bring it much closer in capabilities to dedicated photo apps like Google Photos. As part of …

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