Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into “sovereign” AI
University's K2 Think system ranks alongside best open models from US and China, say researchers
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted
and unleash chaos Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership Media Matters for America : After the Brown University shooting, right-med...
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Times : Jim Simons, Ma...
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Threads: @craignewmark . Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon.art , @trent@eigenma...
Luminar, a lidar tech startup backed by Peter Thiel, Volvo, and GoPro's founder Nick Woodman, plans to go public via a $3.4B merger with a SPAC
Bloomberg : Tweets: @fpontaza , @thestalwart , and @dstrachman Tweets: Fernando Pontaza / @fpontaza : 5 years ago two Guatemalans walked into a room in SF and met a teacher and a philosopher that had...
Samsung ordered to pay $400M by US federal jury for willful infringement on a patent for FinFET chip manufacturing technology owned by a South Korean university
- Dispute is over a way to make chips smaller, more efficient — University claimed Samsung used the technology without paying