Welcome back to the week in review! We found stories to share from this week, such as the biggest hits from Nvidia GTC; NASA’s astronauts finally came home; Ripling suit; And Google bought Wiz. Let’s do it!
Google does in the end: Google made its biggest acquisition in its history this week when he confirmed that he was buying Wiz for $ 32 billion. Google says that it will place the wise as a “multikalud” offering, which means that Wiz will not be a Google-only shop. Last year, Google offered $ 23 billion for its business. It seems that it pays to say never to say.
Talking about acquisition: XAI, Elon Musk’s AI Company, bought the hotshot, working on the AI-manufacturing video-generation tool. The acquisition may indicate that XAI plans to create its own video-generation models to compete with Openai’s Sora, Google’s Veo 2, and others’ choice.
Nvidia gtc: NVIDIA’s biggest conference of the year ended on Thursday, and we were bringing you the latest from chipmaker. The company announced two individual AI supercomputers; Grot N1, a fundamental model for humanoid robots; New JPU, called Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin and Fenman; More more.
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Gloves are closed: The HR company sued another player in space, Daily, with racketering, misuse of trade secrets, torture intervention, unfair competition, and violations of Fiduciery Duty. Deel denied the allegations.
Welcome back to Earth: Two NASA astronauts who were stranded at the international space station for more than nine months have finally returned to Earth. Sunita “Suna” Williams and Barry “Buch” Wilmore printed in a SpaceX Dragon capsule on Tuesday after a 17 -hour return journey from ISS.
Pixel newness: Google released a new pixel this week, called 9A. The $ 499 smartphone has an upgraded 6.3-inch actua display, which Google says that Pixel is 35% brighter than 8A. But here is for the real update design: it is digging its camera bar on the backside.
Hack: The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), the largest organization for teachers in Pennsylvania, says hackers stole sensitive personal information of more than half a million of their members. PSEA said that according to a letter sent to the affected persons, members account number, PIN, password and security codes were also accessed during the breech.
clean! A 12th grader created a website called Minecraft Bench (MC-Bench), which shows two AIs against each other in a pit, to see which one creates better creations in Minecraft. The MC-Bench is technically a programming benchmark, as the model is asked to write the code to create a indicated build.
Really super helpful: Google is switching to how you get an email in your inbox. Instead of chronically exhibiting everything, it will now use AI to consider factors such as vacancy, most-clicked emails and frequent contacts when surfasting the email based on your search query. A togle will allow people to switch between the “most relevant” or “most recent email” on the search result page.
Humanoids at home: The promotion around the Humanoid robot for the house has reached new heights. Norwegian robotics company 1x is capitalizing on this, announcing that it will test its humanoid robot, Neo Gama in the “a few hundred to a few thousand” homes by the end of the year.
Analysis
Nvidia at the top Nvidia AI is sitting at the top of the world, but it faces our tariffs, deepsakes and top AI customers to move preferences. In this year’s GTC, the company demanded to assure the attendees – and the rest of the world is looking at – its demand for chips will never slow down.
Wave rides the wave: Wave, which was launched in 2017 and has increased by more than $ 1.3 billion over the years, has planned to license its self-driving software automotive and fleet partners, such as Uber. Wave’s co-founder and CEO Alex Kendal saw the promise to bring the technology of his autonomous vehicle startup to the market.
