Modal Labs nears $750 million funding round at $15.75 billion valuation
Modal Labs, an AI inference infrastructure provider, is close to securing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation that includes the investment, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
» readLunar terminator paradox explained through interactive program
The lunar terminator paradox was explored by an author who created a computer program to understand the optical illusion. The author reported that the phenomenon becomes clearest when observing a full moon at different elevations in the sky.
» readQuebec leader seeks CSIS meeting over US essay urging Canadian destabilization
The essay was highlighted by Canadian intelligence and media as a call for Americans to actively destabilize the Canadian federation.
» readAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei to dine with President Trump at White House after SNL parody
The upcoming dinner will be the first one-on-one meeting between Amodei and Trump, who have taken opposing positions on AI safety.
» readImp brings DSPy’s typed language-model framework to Elixir’s BEAM ecosystem
A new open-source tool called Imp has been described as a full port of the DSPy machine-learning framework to the BEAM virtual machine.
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