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Elon Musk’s XAI Holdings, formed from merging his xAI startup with social media company X, is in talks to raise $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported. The new investment could value the combined company at $120 billion, the report said. The giant round could be used to pay down some of the debt ...
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In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the payments would be for all but "high income people." Read more ›
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Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers. Read more ›
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The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPU’s built-in fixed-function logic. Read more ›
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A former Intel software engineer who spent over a decade with the company allegedly stole several thousand documents, including confidential ones, after he was laid off. Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence has taken yet another victim. After GPUs and memory, storage is now facing a shortage as well, at least in the enterprise space. Production capacity for nearline storage, fueled by high-capacity server HDDs, is booked for the next two years. Cloud providers are switching to QLC NAND to avoid the lead times. Read more ›
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Just as we learnt to treat emails with caution, we must now learn to doubt a human-sounding voice Read more ›
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There’s a new open source contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena. Read more ›
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"Pluribus" creator Vince Gilligan criticized AI in a recent interview, saying he'd never use it. Now his show features an unusual disclaimer. Read more ›
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For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic. From the earliest thinking of the Greek physician and philosopher Claudius Galen to the 19th-century British “father of epidemiology” John Snow to the years before the Covid-19 pandemic, recurring, widespread, and uncontrollable illness has been beyond the grasp of the […] Read more ›
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Adobe Firefly is a deceptively powerful AI playground to generate images, videos, and more. Here’s how to make the most of it. Read more ›
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Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany are developing a genetic test to predict which medications will actually work. Using polygenic risk scores, they can analyze DNA variations linked to mental health and drug response. Read more ›
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Considering Terminator 2 is arguably one of the best films ever made, it seems strange to think that it's taken 34 years for the video game industry to finally create what looks like the first truly faithful Terminator 2 game, the upcoming Terminator 2D: No Fate from Bitmap Bureau. Read more Read more ›
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Nike's House of Innovation in New York City offers an immersive shopping experience, showcasing the future of Nike stores. Read more ›
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was “concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.” The ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute providers away from Microsoft. Monday morning, the ChatGPT maker announced that it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services. OpenAI will immediately start using compute from AWS, with the goal to deploy all capacity before the end of next year, with the option to use even more compute into... Read more ›
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Decagon, which develops AI for automating customer service, is discussing raising equity funding from new investors at a valuation of $4 billion to $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The discussions come just five months after the company announced financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal discussions suggest investor interest is still high for one of the most promising and increasingly crowded fields... Read more ›
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On a quiet September morning, Alex Leithiser was out in the woods somewhere in the South on a secret mission: to break into a data center. First, he slipped through a small gap in the facility’s barbed wire fence, and as soon as he hit the ground, he switched clothes, pulling a fresh set from a small backpack. With cameras and alarms all over the data center, Leithiser hoped to... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t want the government to bail them out if the company fails. “If we screw up and can’t fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,” Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more ›
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I’ve been hearing a lot about how intense competition is for Series A investments lately. Investors that typically look to invest in more mature startups, say at the Series B or above rounds, are crowding into Series A rounds for fear of missing the next major winner.Like much else these days, artificial intelligence gets the credit (or blame) for this new dynamic. Venture capitalists are watching revenues triple or quadruple... Read more ›
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We’ve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote that’s generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, I’m not talking about the mayoral election in New York City—I’m talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Musk’s gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more ›
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The White House has told others in the federal government it won’t allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trump’s hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision is a major blow to the AI chip giant, which has seen its revenue from China shrivel this year... Read more ›
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that government guarantees for financing artificial intelligence chips could help the U.S. stay competitive globally. “We’re looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,” she said at a ... Read more ›
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Before Sequoia Capital’s leader Roelof Botha announced he was stepping down from the position, partners Alfred Lin, Pat Grady and Andrew Reed came to him to talk about his time at the firm. Botha had only held the top-most job at the firm for three years, taking over from long-time leader Doug Leone just as startup valuations were convulsing from a historic series of rate hikes. Botha, after talking to... Read more ›
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