Neuralink gets US FDA approval to implant its brain chip in a second person; source: FDA signed off on proposed fixes like embedding wires deeper into the brain — Elon Musk-backed startup has proposed solutions for thread pullout problem…
How Nvidia co-founder Curtis Priem is trying to make New York a quantum computing hub, including putting a quantum computer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Curtis Priem is donating more than $75 million to help Rensselaer Polytechnic…
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships — Google, Meta Platforms and others partially own many cables, but they rely on…
A look at Meta's AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors' prices and spread Meta's version of AI more broadly — Mark Zuckerberg has trained his ‘Eye of Sauron’ on Meta's AI strategy, which comes…
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment — It's a $2 trillion company today. It wouldn't exist without someone known as…
Lisa Feldman Barrett / Wall Street Journal: Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion — Training algorithms on stereotypical…
Is Call of Duty coming to Xbox Game Pass? When Microsoft first began pursuing it’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, many assumed using Call of Duty to bolster Game Pass was one of their goals, but things have changed since…
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest…
The founder of Special Events Live took over production of the Pecan Street Festival in 2006 and hasn’t looked back. Read more about the man behind the scenes in our weekly Journal Profile series, which aims to go well beyond an influencer…
In this week's New England Literary News, we hear about two exciting new poetry collections — from Diannely Antigua and John Hodgen — and the launch of a new literary journal that will ponder the "pastoral and the passed-over" beauty of…
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023 — Deal is one of the largest-ever private debt financings — CoreWeave, an…
DOJ charges five people for allegedly duping 300+ US companies into hiring North Korea-linked remote IT workers and helping fund the country's nuclear program — Justice Department alleges Arizona woman and others helped foreign workers…
Grab raises its annual forecast for adjusted EBITDA to $250M-$270M, up from $180M-$200M, after its Q1 net loss narrowed to $104M from $244M in Q1 2023 — The ride-hailing and delivery specialist left its forecast for a 14%-17% rise in full…