Musk’s G20 Forecast: AI Outcodes Humans by 2027, Then Meets a Power Gap
Elon Musk brought a calendar to the Group of 20. Appearing at the summit this week, the founder of SpaceX and one of the artificial-intelligence industry’s most consequential financiers delivered…
Andrew Ng’s Case for Jobs That Outlive AI
The question arrived in its bluntest form, and Andrew Ng did not wave it away. In a long interview with Marina Mogilko, host of the Silicon Valley Girl channel, the…
HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million as AI Security Spending Grows
HiddenLayer, an Austin-based company that sells security software for AI models, said Tuesday it raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Delta-v Capital. Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan…
iPronics Raises $125 Million for Smaller Optical Switches
iPronics, a Spanish startup that builds optical switches for AI data centers, said Tuesday it raised $125 million in a Series B round led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street…
Equinix Pushes AI Inference Across Its Data Centers
Equinix said Tuesday it will offer AI inference across its network of 281 data centers in 77 metropolitan areas, pairing NVIDIA’s reference architecture with a platform that serves more than…
OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to Epic’s Medical Records
OpenAI said Tuesday that clinicians can now use ChatGPT to read and summarize patient records stored in Epic Systems’ electronic health records software, a step that puts the AI company…
SpaceX Puts Starlink Veteran in Charge of AI Data Centers
SpaceX has put Michael Nicolls, a longtime Starlink executive, in charge of its AI data-center operations after a string of departures among the executives who built them, according to people…
a16z Expands Growth Fund to $8.5 Billion, Doubling Down on AI
Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture firms, has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding $1.75 billion to the $6.75 billion the fund raised at…
Samsung Unveils CUBE Memory Strategy With HBM5 Performance Targets
At SEMICON Taiwan on September 1, Samsung Electronics laid out its next generation of memory products under the banner CUBE, disclosing specific performance targets for the first time: HBM5, the…
OpenAI’s Ad Business Passes $1 Billion Annualized Revenue
OpenAI disclosed on August 31 that its advertising business, ChatGPT Ads, has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue, a figure confirmed by CNBC and Reuters. The number is notable for…
