Heat pump tech is 170 years old. Pascal thinks it’s time for an update.: Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient. Read More
Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia's stronghold with AI app developers: Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs. Read More
AI promises productivity, but for managers, it's mostly a headache for now: More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey. Read More
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SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations: SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine. Read More
Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company's acquisition: Foursquare raised $411 million in funding according to PitchBook data, but its equity holders saw no returns from its final acquisition. Read More
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei: Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger. Read More
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy: Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO. Read More
Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software: The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021. Read More
Last but Not Least
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix's OpenAI hack documentary isn't accurate: Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate. Read More
