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Andromeda AI Inc., a startup that helps companies rent artificial intelligence infrastructure, has closed a new funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. Upstarts Media reported today that the capital was provided by Paradigm, a venture capital firm focused on the crypto sector and emerging technologies. The exact dollar value of the deal is unclear. Paradigm, which earlier backed a seed round for Andromeda, has reportedly invested a total of $60 million in the startup to date. Many cloud providers offer access to instances equipped with graphics processing units. However, securing the most favorable pricing often requires signing multiyear contracts, which…

Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see if the model generates the same answer.But this method measures self-confidence, and even the most impressive LLM might be confidently wrong. Overconfidence can mislead users about the accuracy of a prediction, which might result in devastating consequences in high-stakes settings like health care or finance.   To address this shortcoming, MIT researchers introduced a new method for measuring a different type of uncertainty that more reliably…

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On Monday, Apple  acquired MotionVFX, a Polish software company founded in 2009 by Szymon Masiak. No financial terms were disclosed. Apple did not issue a statement. It rarely does for acquisitions. The 70 employees in Warsaw are now Apple employees, and the plugin catalog remains available for now, which is the kind of detail that sounds reassuring until you remember that Pixelmator’s catalog was also available, right up until it wasn’t. So what is MotionVFX, for anyone who has not spent time in a video editing suite. If you have watched a YouTube video with clean cinematic color grading, a…

Microsoft has stopped automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows PCs with M365 apps, after initially planning to roll it out to users by default. The app was supposed to act as a central hub for Copilot, consolidating AI features across tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single location. However, instead of letting users choose, Microsoft had planned to push it directly onto devices, something many users have opposed in the past. What changed with Microsoft’s Copilot rollout Microsoft Microsoft has now temporarily disabled the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible devices.…

Most Singaporeans still tune in weekly In an era dominated by Spotify, podcasts, and YouTube, radio can feel like a relic of the past. So it might seem surprising that millions—yes, millions—still tune in every week to catch up on news or listen to music. It’s far from dead, but what makes radio stick around when we have endless audio options at our fingertips? Why it still has our attention In 2025, Mediacorp—the dominant player in Singapore’s radio market with 84.2% market share—reached 3.94 million weekly listeners, showing that radio still commands a sizeable audience. This strong listenership is reflected…

Something just happened in the AI world. You might have missed it. Without fanfare, a powerful new AI model was released. No press conference, no CEO announcement, nothing. It just… appeared. As developers began to probe the new model, some were convinced that something special was going on.A few even speculated that it might be connected to the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which has been making rapid progress. The facts are not yet clear, but the consequences might be big.Here’s the question on everyone’s mind: why would someone release such a powerful model without attribution? That’s where things get interesting.More…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit revenue for the regime to fund its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. “The North Korean regime targets American companies through deceptive schemes carried out by its overseas IT operatives, who weaponize sensitive data and extort businesses for substantial payments,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. The fraudulent scheme, also called Coral Sleet/Jasper Sleet,…

The chatbot also is intentionally flexible, with the new integrations in mind. “It can take on slight tweaks to the look and feel, to make it feel like a natural part of other environments,” Danker says.Shopping ShiftThe new Walmart experience is part of a broader pivot for OpenAI to focus on having checkouts take place within embedded apps, the Information reported earlier this month, without providing a rationale for the change. Danker spoke about the shift at the Morgan Stanley investor conference this month but didn’t cite the data behind it.OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says the company wants to focus…

The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition presentation, Burns gave insight into the evolving state of U.S.-China relations, its implications for the global order, and its impact on global efforts to advance the energy transition and address climate change.“We are the two largest global economies,” said Burns, who is now the Goodman Professor…