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30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company. Source link

SpaceX eyes June for IPO to align with Musk’s birthday and the planets. Source link

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A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse. Source link

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This is Amazon’s second layoff after the company cut 14,000 corporate jobs in October. Source link

Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform. Source link

Google’s launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini. Source link

Users can describe their edits in natural language to modify an image. Source link

Shadowfax shares fell about 9% on theirdebut, valuing the logistics firm near its last private valuation. Source link