2+ week, 6+ day ago   (250+ words) The AI industry’s next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker. Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover, share, and build AI models, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more. The startup…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (198+ words) Some of Nvidia’s largest customers have been told prices of servers containing its AI chips will rise by more than 15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. The price hikes will go into effect…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1026+ words) College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments. Scanners on a warehouse conveyor belt monitored the pace…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (327+ words) Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that pending home sales in the US had dropped to their lowest level in three years. That coincided with a sharp drop in construction of new homes, which plummeted to the lowest level in over…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (374+ words) A new prediction market has entered the fold, seemingly determined to give the rampant insider trading that its competitors have become known for a run for its money. Called “CRSHMARKET,” the platform purportedly allows users to bet on potentially any…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (390+ words) Carter’s Junk Away bills as much as $15,000 a month in peak season, Grandbois said. His W-2 employees are his high school friends, but he admits that he wasn’t able to scale up and reach profitability until he created a pricing…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (241+ words) Behind the glitz of multimillion-dollar funding rounds that define today’s unicorns are often years of founder sacrifices and barely-there paychecks. Kirill Bigai, the cofounder and CEO of online education marketplace Preply, paid himself virtually nothing for an entire year while…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1516+ words) The voice message was desperate. Left on the phone of a Polish woman in 2022, it was from her older brother, Sylwester Suszek, the founder of Eastern and Central Europe’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange. He had disappeared two weeks earlier from the…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (691+ words) The discounts, promotions and offers you receive from businesses from Starbucks to Kroger to Target to Home Depot are all too often targeted calculations about what to charge you, built from data including your location, browsing history and social media…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (191+ words) Some of Nvidia Corp.’s biggest customers have been told that the prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips are going up more than 15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring. Companies who build the servers under contract…...