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These days, investors are pulling out all the stops and getting more creative to convince founders of AI startups—particularly those with experience as executives at AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic—to take their money, VCs tell me.The latest example we wrote about concerned Thinking Machines Lab, the buzzy startup cofounded by ex-OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati. As part of the company’s latest $2 billion fundraise, Murati essentially has full veto power over the board for decisions like accept
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A new class action claims OpenAI shared ChatGPT prompts and user identifiers with Google and Meta trackers, raising fresh privacy concerns around intimate chatbot conversations. Read more ›
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The cross-chain liquidity protocol paused all trading and signing on Friday after an attacker drained roughly $10.8 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BSC, and Base. Read more ›
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Samsung's 2026 budget tablet does the bare minimum, but that might be enough for some. Read more ›
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Microsoft apparently has plans for a new Xbox controller. But this one seems different from what we’ve come to know from the brand. Rather than being a typical refresh, a Tecnoblog report found that Microsoft is working on a compact controller that could be focused on the Xbox Cloud Gaming. It’s not just the design […] Read more ›
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DJI reserved the launch date for a future announcement. Read more ›
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Elephant Company (Elephant), a Berlin-based startup aiming to unlock the potential of blue-collar workers with AI-powered training, has closed a funding round of over €5 million to grow its team and scale its platform. The round was led by EnBW New Ventures and Wepa, with participation from business angels from Flix, home24 SE, SB21, Ventic ... Read more ›
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Liang Wenfeng, billionaire founder and CEO of DeepSeek, is planning to write the biggest check for the startup’s first-ever funding round, which the company now hopes will raise up to 50 billion yuan ($7.35 billion), according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. That would make it the biggest funding round by a Chinese AI company ever. Meanwhile, the funding round has prompted the Chinese AI lab to... Read more ›
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Shares of iconic glassmaker Corning Inc. have doubled so far this year to their highest price ever, thanks to surging demand for Corning’s fiber optic cables that connect servers and AI data centers to one another. A partnership Corning announced with Nvidia this week gave the stock another lift. But Corning’s current deluxe valuation, which is now based almost entirely on sky-high expectations for its optics business, might be more... Read more ›
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The hedge fund TCI cut almost all of its $8 billion stake in Microsoft, the Financial Times reported Friday, due to what CEO Christopher Hohn described in an investor letter as “uncertainty over Microsoft’s competitive position in the future” as AI threatens to replace existing software like ... Read more ›
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Apple has reached “a preliminary agreement” with Intel in recent months for manufacturing some of its chips, The Wall Street Journal reported. Earlier, this week Bloomberg reported that Apple was exploring such a partnership with Intel and Samsung. A deal with one of the companies would help ... 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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