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...The start-up added that Grok passed a Hungarian high-school final maths exam with a grade C, matching Anthropic’s Claude model....
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...However, the company is encountering “some challenges in obtaining permits” in the US, according to CEO C.C. Wei, who didn’t elaborate on details....
...Dufétel, who also serves as chief operating officer, joined in 2021 after working in the C-suite at 85-year-old asset manager T Rowe Price....
...The firm invested in Hugging Face in May in a Series C round that valued the start-up, which has its own large language model Bloom, at $2bn....
...Berlin-based Infarm has closed an initial $140m of a planned $200m Series C funding round, said people involved in the deal, at more than double the valuation at which it raised $100m a year ago....
...Haugen had “worked for the company for less than two years, had no direct reports, never attended a decision-point meeting with C-level executives”, Lena Pietsch, the company’s director of policy communications...
...“We acquired our stake at an average [enterprise value] of c. £3.6bn for a business with £6.6bn [gross transaction volume] runrate in Q1 (£7.0bn in Q2) at decent Gross Profit margin,” said Östberg....
...Hinkley Point C in Somerset is due to come online in 2026....
...Reporting by Tim Bradshaw, Steff Chávez, Alice Hancock, Patrick Mathurin and Patricia Nilsson...
...Or c) total jerks?...
...There’s a real pressure at farm level — margins are eroding and disappearing very rapidly,” Bradshaw said....
...Tim Bradshaw, the FT’s global tech correspondent, looks at the increasing power of ecommerce giants....
...His departure, previously unreported, follows a series of changes in less than a year that have seen the exits of several longtime Lime executives and a C-suite influx of veterans from companies including...
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw in London...
...The Silicon Valley company — which made $24.5bn in its most recent financial year in sales of iPhone accessories including headphones, smartwatches and chargers — has switched to USB-C connectors for its...
...Kevin Bradshaw has been appointed chief executive of Viridor, the UK recycling company that private equity group KKR bought in June....
...Which novel of 1961 takes place at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh?...
...If all that feels a bit Colonel Bradshaw for the circumstances, please note that only equity investors get the measured language. Over in commodities the approach is more reflective of the mood....
...Its much-fêted debut perfume, C’est la Vie, was launched in 1992. It stank, in every sense of the word, and sank. “It was disgusting,” said Lacroix....
...In a code crunch, nobody is too big to fail, writes the FT’s Tim Bradshaw....
Silicon Valley concerned that export controls aimed at China could miss the target
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...The new iPads swap Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector for the industry-standard USB-C, allowing it to connect to accessories such as cameras or an external display, while also ditching the analogue...
...Tim Bradshaw explains what is worrying investors....
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