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For Silicon Valley venture capitalists dealing with overpriced bets made during the low-interest rate period, Rippling and Deel have been bright spots. The San Francisco HR rivals passed new revenue milestones and minted higher valuations—great news for investors who poured a combined $2 billion into both startups. By some measures, Deel’s investors have had the most to crow about. Deel, the six-year-old startup valued at $12.6 billion in February, passed $800 million in annualized revenue late last year an
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Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Elon Musk over two nights following the Tesla arson and vandalism attacks — and the Tesla CEO was listening. Read more ›
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Elon Musk shared a photo of his DOGE office setup at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Friday, revealing a massive gaming screen. Read more ›
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Trump said "special needs" education and nutrition programs will be handled by HHS and the Small Business Administration will handle student loans. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's super PAC has spent millions of dollars on a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the first major statewide campaign since Trump's election. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said at an all-hands meeting on Tuesday evening that he "can't walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire." Read more ›
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Tori Carter and Kirk Rickman sold their home in December 2022 to become full-time cruisers. They've since been on 29 sailings. Read more ›
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Elon Musk held a last-minute all-hands event at Tesla's Texas Gigafactory. Some workers felt perplexed, while others were reassured. Read more ›
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While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often something to be saved, particularly on the more affordable iPads. The most recent iPad Pro and iPad […] Read more ›
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Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco first collaborated on her 2015 album "Revival." Nine years later, they're engaged and released a collaborative album. Read more ›
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My American family moved from the US to Okinawa and have now lived in Japan for years. Driving, shopping, and parenting here have surprised me. Read more ›
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After immigration agents detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil over his involvement in pro-Palestine protests on campus, President Donald Trump promised it was just the beginning. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has since arrested at least two more students who are in the country on visas â one of whom had recently sued […] Read more ›
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Earlier this year, with a TikTok ban looming, Perplexity AI threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring to take over the embattled social media company. Now, the maker of the AI search engine is outlining its vision for TikTok if its bid were to win out. In a blog post, the company made a lengthy pitch for "rebuilding TikTok in America," an effort that would see the AI company... Read more ›
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Russia stores its Tu-95 and Tu-160 bomber aircraft at the Engels-2 base and uses these planes to carry out strikes against Ukraine. Read more ›
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"So what I am saying is, 'Hang on to your stock,'" Musk told employees in the Texas Gigafactory. Read more ›
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Travel experts say the chaos could cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. Luckily, Heathrow is already restarting flights. Read more ›
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Famous singers and musicians who date each other often end up collaborating on music, like Sonny and Cher and Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco. Read more ›
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The NGAD will replace the F-22 Raptor, which entered service two decades ago, as the US Air Force's top air superiority fighter. Read more ›
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The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ocean made possible thanks to new satellite technology. The face of the moon has been more thoroughly mapped than the […] Read more ›
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Wedbush analyst Dan Ives previously warned Tesla was spiraling into a "brand crisis tornado" amid widespread protests and a plunging share price. Read more ›
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Before OpenAI in January launched Operator, its artificial intelligence that uses the web to plan trips, compile reports and shop online for people, it asked DoorDash to be an official “launch partner” for the new product. DoorDash agreed—but it had a question. In a meeting last fall between the companies, a DoorDash executive asked OpenAI managers to “take this to its logical limit,” according to someone who attended the meeting.... Read more ›
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Google plans to work with a new firm to help design and produce some of its artificial intelligence chips: MediaTek. Google is preparing to team up with the Taiwanese firm on the next version of the chips, known as Tensor Processing Units, that would be produced next year, according to two people involved in the project. Read more ›
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Until this week, I didn’t know Keith O’Brien existed. The payroll compliance manager—and now accused corporate spy—was suddenly very interested in me. O’Brien’s curiosity was piqued last month when I was writing a story about a bitter feud between his company, Rippling, and its archrival, Deel. O’Brien allegedly searched for my name in Rippling’s Slack channels 15 times. He searched for the name of this publication, The Information, 31 times.... Read more ›
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Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company’s video-streaming service, had been striking, including for “Argylle,” a spy action-comedy starring Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa. The movie, which cost $200 million to produce, hadn’t found much of an audience or generated more subscribers for the service, Cook told his colleagues, according to a former Apple TV+ employee. Cook had... Read more ›
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How much money can AI save a business? That’s a hugely important question for businesses nowadays—uncertainty about the answer is holding up wider adoption of various new AI products, as we described on several fronts this week. (See this piece on Salesforce’s struggles in selling its new AI agent tool, and these other two stories on the same theme). And on this point, a securities filing by the installment lender... Read more ›
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Next month, a much-anticipated Federal Trade Commission trial against Meta Platforms is expected to kick off in a federal courtroom in Washington. If the government gets its way, the trial could end up forcing Meta to sell one or both of its most popular apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, but it will likely take months or years before that’s known. But the trial is already having an impact on how Meta... Read more ›
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For Silicon Valley venture capitalists dealing with overpriced bets made during the low-interest rate period, Rippling and Deel have been bright spots. The San Francisco HR rivals passed new revenue milestones and minted higher valuations—great news for investors who poured a combined $2 billion into both startups. By some measures, Deel’s investors have had the most to crow about. Deel, the six-year-old startup valued at $12.6 billion in February, passed... Read more ›
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The unexpected popularity of Manus, a so-called computer-using AI that takes over a person’s web browser to execute tasks like travel booking and stock analysis, has put the Chinese startup behind it in a bind. The firm’s ability to meet demand for the product, also known as an agent, is limited both by its server capacity and, more importantly, by its operating costs. Manus uses Anthropic’s AI models and pays... Read more ›
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As Google attempts to catch up to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, its DeepMind artificial intelligence unit is in a near constant state of flux. Two years after Google merged its two AI units to form Google DeepMind, the unit’s chief, Demis Hassabis, has expanded his purview by adding numerous other teams. He has added oversight of Google’s Gemini chatbot, Google’s AI studio team, which creates software for developers building apps using Gemini,... Read more ›
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One of the most underappreciated applications of artificial intelligence in the corporate world involves its role in writing performance reviews.Take Moderna, the pharmaceutical giant. Late last year, Brice Challamel, its vice president of AI products and platforms, noticed a trend: ChatGPT usage by the pharmaceutical firm’s employees spiked every quarter, around the time managers conduct performance reviews. Staff appeared to use ChatGPT to write both their self-evaluations and those of... Read more ›
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