Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M  —  The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort …

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Sources detail friction between Samsung’s memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Sources detail friction between Samsung’s memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere  —  A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip g…

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Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (Lee Jaewoon/The Elec)

Lee Jaewoon / The Elec:
Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment  —  Company to accelerate humanoid robot commercializat…

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‘A watchdog without resources is not a watchdog’: Labor accused of letting key accountability body languish

Criticism of budget funding comes amid warnings the Australian National Audit Office will struggle to meet its targets for independent reviewsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has been accused inadequately funding one of …

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