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How much motivation does a company founder need to make their company a success? In the case of Chime, a fintech firm whose mission is to offer banking services to lower-income people, quite a lot, it seems. When Chime filed paperwork to go public on Tuesday, it revealed that last month it awarded co-founders Chris Britt (who is also CEO) and Ryan King special stock grants totalling 4 million and 2.4 million shares, respectively. The grants were “designed to provide rewards to the co-founders if they lead u
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NBC-owned streaming service Peacock is increasing its prices, and the ad-supported plan will soon be $3 more expensive. According to Variety, Peacock's ad-supported plan will be priced at $10.99 per month starting on July 23. The Premium Plus plan that features limited ads in live programming is also increasing in price from $13.99 to $16.99. Yearly pricing for the Premium plan will be $110, and the Premium Plus yearly price... Read more ›
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Chris Martin, why does Coldplay have a "kiss cam," anyway? I'm not sure I want to know about what happened between two adults outside Boston. Read more ›
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Ukrainian hacker group BO Team, with help from the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance and possibly Ukraine's military, claims to have wiped out one of Russia's largest military drone manufacturers, destroying 47TB of production data and even disabling the doors in the facility. "Or, as described by the hacking collective (per Google translate), they 'deeply penetrated' the drone manufacturer 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization and denazification,'" reports The Register. From the... Read more ›
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A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants. Read more ›
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RFK Jr.'s super PAC could be laying the groundwork for MAHA in the White House, a recent report suggests. Read more ›
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The Indonesian superstar gets her due in a new documentary, with Shudder also adding several of her luridly entertaining movies to its library. Read more ›
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Its survival hinges on spreading consciousness and populating the galaxy, he claims. Read more ›
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A video appearing to show a tech CEO and his head of HR embracing at a Coldplay concert spread around social media at the speed of sound. Read more ›
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The 'Amazon of guns' went public and immediately tanked. Read more ›
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Senate votes to rescind $1.1 billion from Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Read more ›
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The Chefman Obliterator is the blender I turn to when I want to make smoothies, pesto and more. And you can get it for under $100. Read more ›
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Tom Bateman will star alongside Lili Reinhart in an adaptation of the bestseller 'The Love Hypothesis' by Ali Hazelwood. Read more ›
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The repository offered the MaaS a distribution channel not blocked in many networks. Read more ›
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Late last year, Nintendo hosted a mysterious Switch Online playtest, and on Thursday, the company announced that it would be doing another test as part of the “Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program” and that it will be opening applications soon. This second round will be a test of the “same service” as before. Last time, […] Read more ›
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OpenAI today launched ChatGPT agent, a new agentic model that is able to think proactively and complete computer-based tasks on the user's behalf. The ChatGPT agent is in the same family as o3. It combines several existing ChatGPT features, and it can do things like research and generate reports, execute code using Terminal, generate slides and spreadsheets, and connect to external data sources and applications. OpenAI gives several examples of... Read more ›
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A YouTuber fixes a degrading Ryzen 7 5800X by downclocking the CPU by 300 MHz in the BIOS. Read more ›
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Lively has one week to turn over three years of records to her "It Ends With Us" costar as part of her sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. Read more ›
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The birds could provide important scientific insights, according to Kennedy. Read more ›
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You can just say no. You don't have to do any of this crap. Read more ›
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Silent Hill and Siren creator Keiichi Toyama has confirmed he and his team at Bokeh Game Studios is working it's next project, and it won't be a sequel to horror oddity Slitterhead. Read more Read more ›
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The main Department of Justice building, across from the National Archives in Washington, was the kind of brooding edifice Dylan Field had walked through a lot in 2023 as he tried to convince governments around the world to let him sell Figma, the design software startup that had been his life, to Adobe for $20 billion. He made a final attempt to win over the Justice Department in a December... Read more ›
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When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the course of the interview, I heard something more interesting emerge: two clear new doctrines that are guiding Zuckerberg... Read more ›
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As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit presentations and spreadsheets that are compatible with PowerPoint and Excel directly in the chatbot without using the Microsoft apps themselves, according to a person who... Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence boom is already visibly reshaping the cloud wars. For instance, Amazon Web Services looked like an insurmountable front-runner just a few years ago, but Google has made gains among AI developers thanks to its ability to serve some models at a much lower price, my colleague Kevin reported yesterday.More broadly, we’re starting to see evidence that the cloud providers are all racing to make small improvements to... Read more ›
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Meta will have “the largest compute fleet of any company,” Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told me in an interview first aired on The Information’s TITV Tuesday. “And focusing on that on being powered by a small and talent-dense team, I think we’re gonna have by far the most compute per ... Read more ›
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China’s Huawei Technologies is plotting a fundamental redesign of its next artificial intelligence chip in a bid to seize market share from Nvidia. The Chinese tech giant is working on a new AI chip design that would allow its chips to be used for a wider array of AI development work than its current ones can handle, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. That would bring Huawei’s... Read more ›
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As Anthropic’s sale of artificial intelligence has surged, the company has told investors some of its profit-related metrics are improving even as it burns a tremendous amount of cash. That financial performance has prompted some investors to indicate interest in funding Anthropic at a valuation of more than $100 billion if the company decides to pursue a deal, compared to a $58 billion valuation in a financing announced four months... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s main column about Grok 4, we wanted to share four things we learned from the craziness on Friday, when Google snatched the CEO and technology behind Windsurf, a competitor to Cursor that OpenAI had agreed to buy for $3 billion just two months ago. Read more ›
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Watching last week’s Grok 4 release, one statistic stood out to us. XAI said it spent 10 times as much computational power on reinforcement learning for Grok 4 as it laid out for Grok 3.RL is a common AI development technique that rewards a model for accomplishing certain goals and penalizes it for other behaviors. The xAI disclosure provided further evidence of how AI labs are increasingly improving their models... Read more ›
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OpenAI has ended discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO and some staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The talks between OpenAI to buy the startup for $3 billion ended in recent days after Windsurf’s team raised concerns over how the coding assistant would fit into the OpenAI and Microsoft agreement, which requires OpenAI... Read more ›
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