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Commonwealth Fusion Systems chose its first commercial location, in part because of its proximity to Washington, D.C Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced today that it will build the first commercial-scale power plant outside of Richmond, Virginia, with the goal of connecting it to the grid in the early 2030s. It has long been ridiculed that nuclear […]

Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused programming assistant, is getting third-party tools Google on Tuesday announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, its enterprise-focused AI code completion service. Code Assist launched in April as a rebrand of Similar service Google offered under the now defunct Amnesty International Duet Brands. Available through plug-ins for popular development

Meta was fined US$263 million over a 2018 security breach that affected around 3 million EU users. Meta has been fined €251 million (about $263 million) in the European Union over a Facebook security breach affecting millions of users that the company disclosed back last year. September 2018. The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland’s

Kakao Mobility was hit with a $10.5 million antitrust fine for restricting competitors’ access South Korea’s antitrust watchdog fined Kakao Mobility, the ride-hailing unit of Korean tech company Kakao, $10.5 million (KRW15.1 billion) for restricting competitors’ access to its taxi app – lowering the penalty. From an initial fine of $50.3 million (72.4 billion Korean

Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, has raised $18 million A startup from Türkiye has designed an amazing mobile game where you have to find cats Where’s Wally?The increasingly complex pattern found something else: $18 million in funding. Cactus gamescreator of Find the Cat, will use the Series A to build the team and

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100 million daily active users Meta’s Zuckerberg also noted that Threads now has 300 million monthly active users, compared to 300 million monthly active users. 275 million monthly active users in November. While Meta regularly releases updated numbers about monthly active Threads users, this is the first time the

Waymo’s robot will come to Tokyo in 2025 Waymo will begin testing its self-driving vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, marking the first time Alphabet’s robotaxis will be on public roads outside the United States. The move to Japan is part of Waymo’s “road trips,” a development program that involves bringing its technology to

Cohere has been quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models Cohere is one of the most popular AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, valued at $5.5 billion as of July. As we reported previously. It was co-founded by the author of the “Attention is All You Need” paper that helped launch the

Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video creation game — and it might happen, at least for a little while. DeepMind on Monday announced Veo 2, the next generation AI for video creation and the successor to Viewwhich