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Musk’s xAI Targets $20B in New Funding

Elon Musk’s xAI holdings is raising $20 billion, aiming for a $120 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. If successful, this would be the second-largest private startup funding ever, after OpenAI’s $40 billion round. The funds could ease X’s $1.3 billion annual debt burden and $200 million monthly interest costs. Musk is expected to tap past backers like Valor Equity and Gigafund. Talks are still early. Musk’s growing political ties and AI bets may shape tech and policy moves. Major funding could shift AI investment patterns and Musk’s influence in tech and government.

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Google Upgrades Gmail for Mobile Users

Google updated Gmail apps on Android and iOS with new design features and AI tools. Android tablet users can now adjust the screen layout by dragging a divider, while iOS users get a Material Design 3 update to match Android and web versions. Google Calendar on iOS also adds support for creating and editing birthday events. Workspace users on both platforms can now use Gemini’s AI image generator directly inside Gmail. Integrated AI tools like Gemini could reshape everyday workflows, offering more flexible mobile work options and speeding up AI adoption inside core business apps.

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Liquid AI Launches Faster Mobile LLM

Liquid AI announced Hyena Edge, a new AI model built for smartphones and edge devices, using a convolution-based design instead of transformers. Tests on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra showed up to 30% faster speed, lower memory use, and better language benchmark scores than similar Transformer models. Liquid AI plans to open-source Hyena Edge soon. Faster, smaller AI models like Hyena Edge may reshape mobile and device-based operations. New architectures could lower costs and accelerate AI deployments across edge and consumer devices.

→ More about Hyena Edge

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• AI could soon have a mind of its own. I spoke to experts to learn more about AGI (link)

• Bigger isn’t always better: Examining the business case for multi-million token LLMs (link)

• The CEO of Microsoft AI has some 'sort of obvious' advice for young people looking to succeed (link)

• The influence of AI application on carbon emission intensity of industrial enterprises in China (link)

• They quietly rolled out an AI model inside their help desk, and it’s the most impactful thing they have done (link)

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• Push Security raised $30M in Series B for detecting modern identity attacks in the browser.

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