Week in Review: Google buys Wiz 

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Welcome to the week as a review! We have tons of stories to share this week, like the greatest successes of Nvidia GTC; NASA astronauts finally returned home; The Rippling trial; And Google bought Wiz. Let’s go!

Google finally does it: Google has made its greatest acquisition in its story this week When he confirmed that he bought Wiz for $ 32 billion. Google says it will be Wiz position as a “multicloud” offerThis means that WIZ will not be a shop only on Google. Last year, Google offered $ 23 billion Wiz for its business. I suppose it is worth saying no sometimes.

Speaking of acquisitions: XAI, Elon Musk’s IA company, bought Hotshot, a startup working on video generation tools powered by AI. The acquisition could point out that XAI plans to build its own video generation models to compete with the Sora of Openai, VEO 2 of Google and others.

NVIDIA GTC: Nvidia biggest conference of the year ended on Thursday, and we were on the ground bringing you the last of the flea manufacturer. The company announced Two Personal Superordinators of AI; GROOT N1A fundamental model for humanoid robots; New GPUs, called Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin and Feynman; And much more.


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Gloves are deactivated: HR company Undulating continued DeelAnother space player, alleging racketeering, diversion of trade secrets, disgusting interference, unfair competition and help and encouragement and encouragement of a violation of the fiduciary obligation. Deel denies allegations.

Welcome to the earth: The two NASA astronauts who were blocked for more than nine months at the international space station finally returned to earth. Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed in the Gulf of Mexico in a Spatial Dragon Capsule on Tuesday after a return trip from 5 p.m. to the ISS.

New Nuveaute des Pixels: Google this week published a new pixel, called 9a. The $ 499 smartphone has an improved news display of 6.3 inch, which, according to Google, is 35% brighter than the 8A Pixel. But the real update here is the design: it abandons its camera bar at the back.

Pirate: The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), the largest organization for educators in Pennsylvania, said the pirates stole sensitive personal information More than half a million members. According to a letter sent to affected people, account numbers, pins, passwords and security codes have said that account numbers, pins, passwords and ASEA security codes have said that account numbers, pins, passwords and ASEA security codes have declared that account numbers, passwords security.

Neat! A 12th student Built a website called Minecraft Banc (Mc-Bench) which opposed two ais against each other to see which builds better creations in Minecraft. Mc-Bench is technically a programming reference, because the models are invited to write code to create the guest version.

In fact, super useful: Google is Change how you find an email in your reception box. Rather than displaying everything chronologically, he will now use AI to take into account factors such as recence, the most clicked emails and frequent contacts when putting on e-mails according to your research request. A rocking will allow people to switch between “most relevant” or “most recent” emails on a search results page.

Humanoids at home: The media threshing around humanoid robots for the house seems to have reached new heights. The Norwegian Robotics Company 1x is in capitalization on this subject, announcing that he will test his humanoid robotNeo Gamma, in “A few hundred to a few thousand” houses by the end of the year.

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Nvidia at the top: Nvidia is seated at the AI ​​top of the world, but he faces prices, deeply and changing priorities of AI customers. At the GTC this year, the company sought to provide participants – And the rest of the world looking – this request for his tokens will not slow down anytime soon.

Wayve climbed the wave: Wayve, which was launched in 2017 and has collected more than $ 1.3 billion in the past two years, plans to concede to its autonomous software in Automotive and Fleet Partners, like Uber. Co-founder and CEO of Wayve Alex Kendall sees the promise to put the market of his startup startup of autonomous vehicle.

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