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Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

Mira Murati, Thinking Machines Lab

Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing to open-world segmentation projects, including SAM3D. His final day at Meta was last week, and he has since joined Thinking Machines Lab (TML). His move to TML comes as the AI startup expands […]

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow

Series, a social networking app, announced that it raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round, with investors including Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The company was founded early last year by Yale students Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, both still seniors at the university.  Series considers […]

Provigil Surveillance secures orders worth Rs 8.21 cr | Capital Market News

From North Western Railway, Bikaner Division Provigil Surveillance, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, has received two Letters of Acceptance (LOA) from North Western Railway, Bikaner Division, aggregating to approximately Rs 8.21 crore. 1. Provision of CCTV Cameras at all PRS & UTS cum PRS counters at 54 stations (64 locations) over Bikaner Division, […]

Tesla’s Cybercab goes into production — so why is Musk tapping the brakes?

Tesla’s Cybercab is now in production at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, but Elon Musk is sounding unusually cautious about the rollout. The robotaxi’s start of production was announced Thursday on X, with Tesla posting a video shot from inside a steering wheel-less Cybercab as it drove out of the factory with the caption, […]

Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc.

Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the U.S. for much of the last decade, The Intercept reported. The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software to pore over financial records for investigative purposes, the outlet reported, […]