Russia broke its silence on allegations it carried out an act of sabotage against a major NATO member. On Monday, Poland suggested it believed Moscow was behind an attack on railway tracks running between Warsaw and Lubin. The incident, which happened on Sunday, November 16, saw an explosion on the line which leads to the Ukrainian border and is key …
Read More »Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble | TechCrunch
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue says we’re not in an AI bubble, but an “LLM bubble” — and it may be poised to pop. At an Axios event on Tuesday, the entrepreneur behind the popular AI platform and community site agreed that bubble talk is today’s “trillion dollar question,” but said he doesn’t believe AI’s future is at …
Read More »WW3 warning as Europe braced for ‘armed attack’ – ‘pre-war status’
Vladimir Putin is continuing to prepare for a potential future Russian war against NATO, experts say, as Europe fears an armed attack by Moscow. The European Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, said in a speech on Sunday that intelligence services, including from Germany, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands, suggest that Putin could be ready to test Article 5 …
Read More »https://www.rt.com/news/627971-epstein-files-release-vote/US House votes to force release of Epstein files
The development comes a day after President Donald Trump ended his opposition to the move The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to oblige the Department of Justice release all unclassified documents related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. On Monday, President Donald Trump ended his opposition to the plan by calling on Republicans in the House to …
Read More »AI data center provider Lambda raises whopping $1.5B after multibillion-dollar Microsoft deal | TechCrunch
AI data center provider Lambda announced Tuesday it raised $1.5 billion in a round led by TWG Global, a relatively new $40 billion investment firm formed by billionaires Thomas Tull, the former owner of Legendary Entertainment, and Guggenheim Partners founder and CEO Mark Walter. TWG holds a variety of the billionaires’ assets, including Walter’s stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers …
Read More »AI data center provider Lambda raises whopping $1.5B after multi-billion Microsoft deal | TechCrunch
AI data center provider Lambda announced Tuesday it raised $1.5 billion in a round led by TWG Global, a relatively new $40 billion investment firm formed by billionaires Thomas Tull, the former owner of Legendary Entertainment, and Guggenheim Partners founder and CEO Mark Walter. TWG holds a variety of the billionaires’ assets, including Walter’s stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers …
Read More »Meta wins antitrust trial as judge denies that it’s a monopoly | TechCrunch
After five years, Meta has emerged victorious from a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. In an opinion released Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg wrote that the FTC did not prove that Meta was violating antitrust law when it bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, and WhatsApp for $19 billion …
Read More »Monarch Tractor sued over tractors that were ‘unable to operate autonomously’ | TechCrunch
Monarch Tractor has been accused of overpromising on the autonomous capabilities of its tractors, according to a new lawsuit. Burks Tractor, a dealership located in Idaho, has sued Monarch for breach of contract and allegedly violating its warranty because the California-based startup’s tractors were “unable to operate autonomously.” The dealership also says the 10 tractors it purchased “continue to experience …
Read More »Prof. Ahsan Iqbal Inaugurates the Most Powerful Computing Facility of Pakistan at PIEAS – CustomsNews.pk Daily
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal inaugurated Center for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) along with a state-of-the-art High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility at Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) here on Tuesday. Chairman PAEC Dr. Raja Ali Raza Anwar accompanied the minister during the inauguration and showed him various CMS laboratories. Talking to media …
Read More »Toyota keeps betting on hybrid vehicles in the US | TechCrunch
Toyota said on Tuesday it will invest $912 million in five U.S. factories to expand production of hybrid vehicles to meet increasing demand. The investment in hybrid vehicles — of which Toyota is a market leader — is part of the Japanese automaker’s recent announcement to spend up to $10 billion over the next five years in the United States. …
Read More »Panic at major airport as man with ‘bomb in bag’ sparks evacuation
A major international airport had to be evacuated on Tuesday evening after a man claimed to have a bomb in his bag. Officials at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida have detained a man on Tuesday (November 18) According to the officials, the incident has impacted access to pre-security public areas of the arrival and departure levels of the terminal …
Read More »شہزادہ محمد بن سلمان وائٹ ہاؤس پہنچ گئے، سعودی ولی عہد کا شاندار استقبال – World
سعودی عرب کے ولی عہد شہزادہ محمد بن سلمان وائٹ ہاؤس پہنچ گئے ہیں، جہاں امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ نے ان کا استقبال کیا، اور اب دونوں رہنماؤں کے درمیان ملاقات جاری ہے۔ برطانوی خبر رساں ادارے ’رائٹرز‘ کے مطابق سات برس سے زائد عرصے کے بعد وائٹ ہاؤس کے اہم دورے پر شہزادہ محمد بن سلمان کو مکمل عسکری …
Read More »Europe refuses to be tech ‘vassal’ of China and US, France’s Macron says
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Europe does not want to be a “vassal” that is dependent on US and Chinese tech companies, calling for a “European preference” in the sector. “Europe doesn’t want to be the client of the big entrepreneurs or the big solutions being provided either from the US or from China, we clearly want …
Read More »Poe’s AI app now supports group chats across AI models | TechCrunch
Poe, Quora’s app that brings together different AI models into one platform, is launching group chat functionality. The company announced on Monday that users worldwide will be able to start group chats with up to 200 other people, then collaborate across more than 200 AI models — including text, image, video, and audio generators — within a single conversation. The …
Read More »a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere | TechCrunch
As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax. “Marketplaces are liable for tax on their entire GMV (gross merchandise value) not just their take rate, so every new country meant a maze of registrations, filings, deadlines, and risk,” Rudder told TechCrunch. “It became a constant distraction. Instead of building the business, …
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