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Scientists and starlets can make strange bedfellows.
But at this year’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., hundreds of scientists, tech leaders and Hollywood stars gathered for a night of celebrating breakthroughs in subjects such as gene editing, mathematics and physics.
A crowd including Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Rupert Murdoch joined tech’s most prominent founders to watch six groups of scientists each receive coveted $3 million prizes.
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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This week’s Android announcements were big, just as Google said they would be. We got a preview of some of Android 17’s biggest upcoming features, plus Google announced Gemini Intelligence, the next big move for Gemini onto flagship devices. This next step for Gemini on your Android phone will proactively do things unlike previous Gemini... Read the original post: Gemini Intelligence on Your Pixel or Galaxy Phone Looking Doubtful Read more ›
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ChatGPT now lets Pro subscribers in the US connect their bank accounts through Plaid to get personalized financial guidance and spending analysis. Read more ›
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The new 'Star Wars' movie is a week away and we're here to get your ready for it. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly's appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major win for Stop Killing Games' grassroots game preservation movement and comes over the objections of industry lobbyists at the Entertainment Software Association. California's Protect Our Games... Read more ›
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Friendship breakups are never easy, but few are as messy and expensive as the collapse of Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s once thriving tech bromance. On Thursday, closing arguments wrapped up in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, leaving a jury to deliberate next week whether Altman and other executives “stole a charity” (as one of Musk’s […] Read more ›
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Ensitrelvir has already been approved as a prophylactic in Japan, with an FDA decision in the U.S. expected soon. Read more ›
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Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you to save at any moment and resume from that exact spot later on, rather than having to reach a specific point in a game […] Read more ›
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Alienware’s 27-inch 240Hz QD-OLED monitor brings OLED gaming to a lower price point. Here’s whether it’s worth it. Read more ›
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Intel's latest Core Ultra 7 270K Plus 24-core CPU is $20 off on Amazon, bringing its price down to just $279. Read more ›
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Heathrow and Salesforce launched AI assistant Hallie to manage customer inquiries, boosting efficiency at the UK's busiest airport. Read more ›
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Google is limiting new accounts to just 5GB of storage (down from 15GB) in certain regions, but there is still a way to get the full amount. Read more ›
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The Critical Industrial Technologies initiative helps Ontario’s SMEs move from working pilot to working business. Read more ›
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OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to "invest in […] Read more ›
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Salesforce’s chief communications officer Carolyn Guss is leaving the sales software giant, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of the people said Guss is joining a new company and that Salesforce will be appointing another chief communications officer soon. Among her ... Read more ›
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Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX’s AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk’s firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion. Cursor staffers have been visiting xAI offices to meet with employees and discuss their work, according to two people with direct knowledge of the companies. Fresh xAI exits have followed, including staff cuts last Friday, the people said. Read more ›
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Anthropic is the unnamed customer behind a $1.8 billion cloud deal that Akamai announced on Thursday, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. That deal sent the content delivery network provider’s stock soaring 27% on Friday. The seven-year cloud contract—which Akamai ... Read more ›
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Dan Levine, a partner at Accel known for early startup investments in Scale AI and Vercel, is stepping back from the venture capital firm and will no longer make new investments for it, people familiar with the matter said. The firm disclosed the change to limited partners in recent weeks. It ... Read more ›
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Naveen Rao, a longtime California resident, ascended to a rarefied tier of wealth last year when his startup, Unconventional AI, was valued at $4.5 billion. The company is based in Palo Alto, but with the specter of a new tax on billionaires looming over the state, Rao began considering other places to live. Last month, he found one: a $20 million mansion in Incline Village, a charming mountain town on... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Tech Culture: Billionaire tax brings new boom time to Tahoe haven• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Interview: What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out,” “Hated by All the Right People,” and “Widow’s Bay”A very old proverb comes to mind when I think about this exact period in AI—because, really, it’s a moment when the enemy of your... Read more ›
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Tech companies from Spotify to Uber to Airbnb told investors on their March-quarter earnings calls that AI was making their workers more productive, allowing them to ship more code and handle more customers with the same or fewer employees. Many companies are seeing profit margin improvement as AI is helping them do more while holding their headcount steady or in some cases allowing them to cut jobs. But some companies... Read more ›
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How many AI chip designers can the public market support? We’ll get a sense of that on Thursday when Cerebras Systems, the biggest of a new generation of chip designers dedicated to AI, is expected to go public at a valuation of $35 billion. If it follows the pattern of other AI-related IPOs, such as cloud firm CoreWeave, Cerebras will be a big hit. CoreWeave went public a year ago... Read more ›
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Chinese social media giant Kuaishou Technology is planning to spin off its Kling AI video business ahead of an initial public offering next year, in an attempt to capitalize on investors’ appetite for AI stocks, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. Kuaishou has held talks with potential investors for a pre-IPO funding round that values Kling at $20 billion, the two people said. Kling develops AI video... Read more ›
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Uber promoted its Chief Marketing Officer Jill Hazelbaker to president and chief corporate affairs officer, adding human resources, real estate and safety to her remit. Hazelbaker is a veteran technology communications and public policy leader who worked at Google and Snap before joining Uber in ... Read more ›
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