Chinese language tech big Baidu has began testing autonomous automobiles in London as a part of its partnership with Lyft and Freenow, the German taxi and multi-mobility app that Lyft now owns. Baidu is the most recent in a string of firms to check self-driving know-how within the UK forward of economic robotaxi deployments. The…
In this tutorial, we deploy the 1-bit Bonsai-27B language model using the PrismML fork of llama.cpp, which provides the specialized CUDA kernels required to decode the model’s Q1_0_g128 GGUF quantization format. We begin by validating the GPU runtime, installing the required Python dependencies, compiling the CUDA-enabled inference binaries, and downloading the compressed model weights from…
Nuclear energy startup Antares Nuclear stated Monday that it has raised $470 million to construct small reactors for U.S. navy bases. The Collection C spherical, which was led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital with participation from Industrious Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Shine Capital, underscores buyers’ rising curiosity in superior nuclear startups — a pattern fueled…
Ever so slowly, the crackdown on harmful sexual deepfakes is taking hold. Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have seized deepfake hosting websites, while the EU and UK have drawn up plans to ban “nudify” apps by the end of the year. Despite this, large tech companies are still pushing millions in…
Weeks earlier than its anticipated acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its greatest push into India but, launching its first country-specific subscription as the corporate bets on one of many world’s largest developer markets to drive its subsequent stage of progress. On Monday, the startup launched Cursor Begin, a ₹649-a-month (about…
Apple is being sued for alleged negligence regarding its App Store security measures. In a lawsuit filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, three plaintiffs claim they were tricked into downloading and installing a fraudulent crypto wallet app, leading them to collectively lose more than $1.8 million. The lawsuit centers on…
An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained health records, private…
Whereas a lot of the streaming business is targeted on mergers and acquisitions, NBCUniversal is increasing its attain via partnerships, with its newest transfer bringing Peacock on to YouTube. On Monday, NBCUniversal and YouTube announced a multi-year international strategic partnership, bringing Peacock’s Premium plan to YouTube Premium subscribers within the U.S. beginning in early 2027. This…
For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is a dear endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a leg up courtesy of a Division of Power grant. The fusion energy startup advised TechCrunch Monday that it has acquired a $20 million award from ARPA-E to assist manufacture its modular high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. HTS magnets are expensive however vital parts…
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, or possibly open-weight models generally. “Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but…
