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FILE PHOTO: IBM is reportedly laying off thousands of U.S. employees and moving them to India. | Photo Credit: Reuters IBM is reportedly laying off thousands of U.S. employees and moving them to India. A report by The Register has stated that it spoke to employees who were asked to train Indian employees on their job role after being told they would soon have to leave. According to the outlet, IBM has also listed 173 open positions since January this year with 2,946 openings available since November last year. Some of the employees who were laid off and asked for an internal transfer were…

Wednesday, April 2: Inside MIT Ever wonder what kind of genius is being conjured inside the labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Updated: 8:15 PM EDT Mar 28, 2025 Tonight we go behind the scenes at MIT and discover everything from video games to futuristic fashion to… paper airplanes! We meet a professor of computer science who began college at the age of 12, and an architecture professor making advances in using mud for building. We check out the action at the Combat Robotics Club, and a team working to defend Planet Earth from asteroids. All in a day’s…

Quantexa Ltd., a startup with a data management platform that enterprises use for tasks such as fraud detection, has raised $175 million in a late-stage funding. The company disclosed in its announcement of the round Tuesday that Teachers’ Venture Growth was the lead investor. The Series F deal also includes contributions from several returning backers. Quantexa is now valued at $2.6 billion, up from $1.8 billion following its previous funding round. London-based Quantexa provides a platform that can ingest information from multiple sources, identify related data points and group them together. For example, the software could scan a collection of product…

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (pictured) said that the U.S. “will not allow adversaries to exploit American technology to bolster their own militaries and threaten American lives.” Image: World Economic Forum/Flickr/Creative Commons The U.S. has blacklisted approximately 80 foreign entities, citing heightened national security concerns. The majority are Chinese companies suspected of procuring American hardware to aid the development of military technologies. U.S. targets China’s AI and supercomputing push Eleven entities based in China and one in Taiwan now face trade restrictions for “engaging in the development of advanced AI, supercomputers, and high-performance AI chips for China-based end-users with…

In 2025 so far, tech companies acquired for $100M or more had just 100 employees at the median. We break down the quarter’s most efficient exits and which startups could be next. This research comes from the March 11 edition of the CB Insights newsletter. You can see past newsletters and sign up for future ones here. Small teams are getting big payouts. That’s what the M&A data for 2025 says. Using CB Insights M&A transaction and headcount data for Q1’25 so far, we found that tech companies acquired for $100M or more had just 100 employees at the median.…

For New York metro-area startups, it’s starting out as a big year for exits. This month, Google announced plans to acquire New York-based cybersecurity provider Wiz for $32 billion in what could rank as the largest startup acquisition of all time. Meanwhile, another metro-area company — Livingston, New Jersey-based CoreWeave — is on track to go public at a reported target valuation around $32 billion. In the world of startup funding, however, things are off to a slower start. So far this year, New York metro-area companies have pulled in around $3 billion in seed and venture funding, per Crunchbase…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Unfortunately for Google, the release of its latest flagship language model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, got buried under the Studio Ghibli AI image storm that sucked the air out of the AI space. And perhaps fearful of its previous failed launches, Google cautiously presented it as “Our most intelligent AI model” instead of the approach of other AI labs, which introduce their new models as the best in the world. However, practical experiments with real-world examples show that Gemini 2.5 Pro is…

AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior — sometimes taking down the site — open source developers are “disproportionately” impacted, writes Niccolò Venerandi, developer of a Linux desktop known as Plasma and owner of the blog LibreNews. By their nature, sites hosting free and open source (FOSS) projects share more of their infrastructure publicly, and they also tend to have fewer resources than commercial products. The issue is that many AI bots don’t…

A deep dive into the TokenFormer and an opinion about its impact, novelty, and relation to prior work. Paper: Abstract: Transformers have become the predominant architecture in foundation models due to their excellent performance across various domains. However, the substantial cost of scaling these models remains a significant concern. This problem arises primarily from their dependence on a fixed number of parameters within linear projections. When architectural modifications (e.g., channel dimensions) are introduced, the entire model typically requires retraining from scratch. As model sizes continue growing, this strategy results in increasingly high computational costs and becomes unsustainable. To overcome this…

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