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Tesla shareholders are hours away from deciding the fate of Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package, and whether Tesla should explore an xAI investment. Read more ›
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Hussain Sajwani, an associate of President Donald Trump, is linked to the purchase of the Amadea, which the US seized from a Russian oligarch in 2022. Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that China will win the AI race because of its abundance of power and the fact that the U.S. is losing out on the chance for its hardware to become the standard tool that Chinese AI developers use. Read more ›
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This $400 set comes with minifigures of the complete Next Gen crew, including Picard, Riker, and Wesley Crusher’s portable tractor beam. Read more ›
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Goldman' class of 638 new managing directors represents a 5% increase from its previous cohort. Check out every name of the new promotes here. Read more ›
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Airports cutting flights include Charlotte, Boston, Seattle, and Philadelphia. See the list of airports most likely affected. Read more ›
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Turing Prize winner urges governments to require tech groups to cover catastrophic outcomes and fund safety research Read more ›
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Is now the time to pick up a new MacBook with an M4 inside? Apple's iconic laptops are at their lowest-ever prices ahead of Black Friday Read more ›
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Devolver Digital had a lovely little surprise up its sleeve this fine Thursday. The publisher released an animated short for Ball x Pit, the roguelite mashup sensation that’s put a serious dent in the productivity levels of several of the Engadget crew. The funny four-minute clip, which comedy animation house Mashed created, clears up some key questions about the game. To set things up, Ball x Pit is set after... Read more ›
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Among the app's features is a list of the Nintendo games you've played and how long you played them. Read more ›
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Redditor puts the DGX Spark to the test in gaming, specifically CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077. Read more ›
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Deep Search gets you answers to comprehensive questions, while prediction market support will be clutch for future analysis. Read more ›
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A startup founded by former Anker employees plans to launch a hybrid RV next year. Evotrex "exists to transform how people experience the outdoors," according to CEO Alex Xiao. On Thursday, the California-based company announced that it had secured $16 million in Pre-A funding. Among its backers are Anker's founders (not Anker itself).The RV trailer is designed to last for days far off the grid. To achieve that, its battery... Read more ›
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Google Cloud has launched new Axion CPU and Ironwood TPU instances that combine Arm-based general-purpose computing with 7th-generation AI acceleration. Ironwood-based pods with up to 9,216 chips and 42.5 FP8 ExaFLOPS per pod vastly surpass Nvidia's GB300 systems and form the foundation of Google's AI Hypercomputer for large-scale model training and inference. Read more ›
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My 81-year-old grandma always eats healthy and stays active. Surrounding herself with family — her greatest success — is her key to happiness. Read more ›
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Supercomputers were once beasts, even by PC standards -- massive room-filling things that cost a fortune. Now, a much smaller supercomputer has arrived. Read more ›
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Microsoft AI wants you to know that its work toward superintelligence involves keeping humans “at the top of the food chain.” In a lengthy blog post on Thursday, Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman highlighted the formation of a new team dedicated to developing a “humanist superintelligence” that’s “designed only to serve humanity.” This kind of […] Read more ›
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Lego’s Star Wars partnership helped the company endure financial uncertainty in the late ‘90s, but for the first time it’s announcing a collaboration with that other iconic space franchise. Lego’s first Star Trek set is a 3,600 piece replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation measuring nearly two-feet long. It […] Read more ›
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Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics 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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Stock market investors fell in love with crypto this year, setting off a big rally in public markets. Now the buying frenzy has rebounded back to privately held companies like crypto exchange Kraken and payments firm Ripple, whose valuations have soared. Kraken, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, is raising money at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter, after getting $500 million in new... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s revenue could reach $100 billion in 2027, Sam Altman said on a podcast published Friday with Altimeter Capital and OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner. Altman said the ChatGPT maker was already “doing well more revenue,” than $13 billion, an apparent reference to its annualized pace, which ... Read more ›
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One August morning, Kaarage woke up and took the train from the Japanese countryside into the city. She went to a restaurant and enjoyed a lunch of vegetables and soup, as well as an iced coffee. Afterward, she studied a musical score on her iPad, then went home to relax. Kaarage is not a person: She’s an internet-beloved Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casio—yes, Casio—who shares a charming, bucolic... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Benchmark’s high-stakes pressure test • Artificial Intelligence: The VCs who turned vibe code into whimsical passion projects• Artificial Intelligence: Venerable Casio’s surprise hit? An AI robopet • WTF: Behind the scenes at our summit for the most powerful and influential women in tech, media and finance • The Arena: WNBA owner Clara Wu Tsai has a $1 billion plan• Plus, our... Read more ›
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France threatened to ban Shein from selling products in the country after a consumer protection regulator said in a statement it had discovered the fast-fashion giant was selling sex dolls “with a childlike appearance.” France’s economic minister Roland Lescure said Monday that the government ... Read more ›
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Travel software firm Navan, which weathered a pandemic, name change and government shutdown on its path to an initial public offering, had a disappointing start as a public company. Shares fell 20% on the first day. Its earliest investors still made big gains on paper though. Investor Oren Zeev and his affiliated funds, which invested $150 million starting with Navan’s seed round in 2015, had about a $1 billion stake... Read more ›
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In less than a year, AI-assisted coding has become a fixation within Silicon Valley, which sees the companies building such products as some of the most lucrative startups in tech. While tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code can’t transform techno novices into app-building wizards overnight, they do make coding faster—and easier for people who have some knowledge of coding but don’t have the same skill as a veteran engineer.... Read more ›
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Last year, Benchmark, the storied venture capital firm, embarked on a lavish courtship of Brendan Foody, founder and CEO of Mercor, a startup that fills a lucrative niche in AI by hiring workers to train AI programs. First, General Partner Victor Lazarte chatted with Foody over Zoom. Then Peter Fenton, the firm’s longest-tenured active GP, took Foody out on his helicopter for a tour around San Francisco. And finally, Benchmark’s... Read more ›
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