EBay Tells Cohen Offer is “Neither Credible Nor Attractive”
Ebay told investor Ryan Cohen his $56 billion cash and stock bid for the online auction marketplace was “neither credible nor attractive,” delivering an expected rejection. Cohen, the founder of Chew.com who now controls struggling game retail chain GameStop, made the bid early…
Waymo recalls robotaxis for driving on flooded roads
A Waymo drives across Congress Avenue on 8th Street in front of the Capitol Building as rain arrives in the Austin area on Friday, Jan. 23, 2025 ahead of anticipated drops in temperature and freezing rain over the weekend. (Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty…
Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice
Mira Murati's start-up presents its first AI model and aims to free voice AI from the question-and-answer model. The model processes audio, video and text in 200-millisecond chunks in parallel and aims to beat OpenAI's GPT Realtime 2 and Google's Gemini Live in terms of…