Warren Buffett buys Tesla for $1 Trillion

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Tuesday.

Yes, this was a real headline…but it’s fake. April Fools!

Otherwise, I’m not sure what’s real and fake anymore in the AI world…and that’s scary.

Are we really creating AI for cats?

And are we really using AI agents in the U.S. army?

OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

• Meta's head of AI research announces departure

  Pineau was one of Meta’s top AI researchers and led the company’s fundamental AI research unit, or FAIR, since 2023.

• Qualcomm acquires generative AI division of VinAI

  The acquisition will strengthen Qualcomm’s generative AI research and development capabilities and expedite the creation of advanced AI solutions for products like smartphones, PCs, software-defined vehicles, and more.

• Tinder’s new AI-powered game

  It’s called The Game and runs on OpenAI’s Realtime API and uses GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini and the Moderation API, with privacy and safety built in.

• Inside Experian’s AI framework

  Before the modern gen AI era, Experian was already using and innovating with ML.

• How China Is Training AI To Censor Its Secrets

  A newly leaked database shows China is developing a large language model (LLM) system to automatically detect and suppress politically sensitive content, dramatically expanding the country's capacity for digital censorship, TechCrunch reports.

• AI and satellites help aid workers respond to Myanmar earthquake damage

  The AI for Good lab has done this kind of AI-assisted damage assessment before, tracking Libya’s catastrophic flooding in 2023 or this year’s wildfires in Los Angeles.

• NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Scheduler

  KAI Scheduler is a robust, efficient, and scalable Kubernetes scheduler that optimizes GPU resource allocation for AI workloads.

• Arm recently sought to acquire Alphawave for AI chip tech

  SoftBank-owned chip tech provider Arm Holdings recently sought to acquire UK-based Alphawave to secure a crucial technology for building its own artificial-intelligence processors.

• Lightmatter releases new photonics technology for AI chips

  This company is valued at $4.4 billion.

The numbers:

• ReliaQuest, an AI cybersecurity firm, raised $500M at a $3.4B valuation in a round led by EQT, KKR, and FTV Capital

• Novarc Technologies, an AI robotics startup focused on automated welding solutions, raised a $50M Series B led by Export Development Canada

• Tomorro, a French startup specializing in AI-powered contract management, raised a $27M round led by XAnge and Acton Capital

• Persefoni, a sustainability management SaaS and AI platform, raised a $23M Series C extension from TPG Rise, Rice Investment Group, Clearvision Ventures, NGP Energy Technology Partners, Prelude Ventures, and Kawamori

• InfiniLink, an Egyptian semiconductor startup specializing in advanced optical data connectivity chips for AI-driven data centers, raised $10M in funding led by MediaTek and Sukna Ventures

• Ribbon, an AI hiring platform, raised $8M in funding led by Radical Ventures

• Sourcetable, a startup building an autonomous spreadsheet, raised a $4.3M seed round led by Bee Partners

Thought starters:

• Anthropic scientists expose how AI actually “thinks”

  • Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models

  • On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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