🍪 An acqui-hire: AMD has been busy. The semiconductor giant acquired the team behind Untether AI, a startup building AI inference chips. The company had raised more than $150 million in VC money. Just a few days ago, AMD acquired Brium, an AI optimization startup.
🔎 Congress for creators: Two representatives from Congress, one from each side of the aisle, launched the Congressional Creators Caucus on Thursday, which is meant to support the creator economy and give Congress more visibility into the growing industry.
🤝 Humans to the rescue (for once): Sarah Franklin, the CEO of employee performance software company Lattice, thinks that it's important for companies to find balance between AI augmentation and human employees to gain trust with their customers.
Digging into data: AI research organization EleutherAI released a massive set of training data for AI called the Common Pile v0.1. This dataset is made up of licensed or open domain data for training AI models. The dataset can be downloaded from Hugging Face or GitHub.
⛔️ No thank you: Genetic testing startup Nucleus Genomics never seems to be too far from controversy. Earlier this week, the company launched a new product called Nucleus Embryo that can test IVF embryos for things like future appearance or IQ. The internet — and VCs — reacted as you'd expect.
