Menlo Ventures announced $3 billion in funds on Tuesday, the most important increase in its 50-year historical past, pushed largely by its AI portfolio, particularly Anthropic. Its stake within the mannequin maker is now value about $14 billion, sources told Bloomberg. To listen to the oldsters at Menlo discuss it, they have been white-knuckling it…
import time, json, gc, math, urllib.request import torch, numpy as np, soundfile as sf, librosa print(“>>> PHASE 2: operating tutorialn”) print(“NumPy:”, np.__version__, “| PyTorch:”, torch.__version__) print(“CUDA out there:”, torch.cuda.is_available()) if torch.cuda.is_available(): print(“GPU:”, torch.cuda.get_device_name(0), f”| VRAM: {torch.cuda.get_device_properties(0).total_memory/1e9:.1f} GB”) else: print(“⚠️ No GPU — will run on CPU (very gradual). ” “Set Runtime > Change runtime sort…
Box. Boho. Knotless. Most Black women understand exactly what those words refer to: braided hairstyles. The thousand-year-old ritual is practically a rite of passage, and many Black women and girls even today sit in salon chairs, up to 12 hours at a stretch, as a stylist weaves patterns into their hair. But that’s also the…
Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag in analysis preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. The brand new function — which permits customers to tag @Claude to offer insights in chats and assign duties — will start in analysis preview, out there by means of Slack for Claude Enterprise and…
Password supervisor maker LastPass is notifying clients that their private info and buyer help case data have been stolen throughout a current hack at one in every of its expertise companions, marking the corporate’s newest information breach in recent times. In an e mail shared with TechCrunch from an affected buyer, LastPass mentioned the breach…
Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching a new line of smart glasses, dubbed Meta Glasses, starting at $299. These glasses are being made in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, but unlike the tech giant’s other smart glasses, they don’t carry Ray-Ban or Oakley branding. The Meta Glasses are available in several countries starting today in a variety…
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The hiring process has long been criticized for its inefficiency and opacity. Candidates spend hours writing applications and submitting cover letters, only to disappear into what often feels like a black box. Generative AI has only made things messier, with employers increasingly relying on AI-powered screening systems to sift through an overwhelming number of submissions….
An organization that sells spyware and adware and hacking instruments to authorities companies has printed particulars of a vulnerability in Apple chips that may doubtlessly assist hackers unlock older iPhones. This launch opens the door for different researchers who specialise in discovering iOS vulnerabilities, corresponding to these working for governments or their contractors, to develop…
Nvidia simply introduced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically cut back the quantity of water an information middle makes use of — eliminating “just about all water utilization” inside the information middle, in keeping with an Nvidia govt in a press release. “The water consumption problem for knowledge facilities is basically…
