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Salesforce has agreed to acquire Convergence, a London-based startup developing AI software to automate complex tasks, otherwise known as AI agents, according to a Convergence post on X on Thursday. Convergence’s product, Proxy, went viral when it first launched on ProductHunt in February. Proxy ...
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A trilogy remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched by BioWare to EA, but the publisher is "against remasters" and "basically seem to be against free money". Read more Read more ›
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My boyfriend and I left San Francisco and each moved in with family. We're dating long-distance, but the arrangement lets us travel and save money. Read more ›
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Air India said it would suspend flights between Delhi and Washington, DC, from September, citing Pakistan's airspace closure to Indian carriers. Read more ›
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AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans. The Yahoo-owned company announced the shutdown on its support website, stating: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet." The termination includes the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, both of which were optimized for older operating... Read more ›
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Consumers could be paying for 67% of the cost of tariffs by October — ahead of the holiday shopping season. Read more ›
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Apple's rumored new more affordable MacBook could have a starting price as low as $599 and launch as soon as this year, according to a new report out of Asia. We first learned of Apple's low-cost MacBook plans in late June, when analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the company was developing a "more affordable" 13-inch laptop (the analyst did not mention a price) that would with compete with Chromebooks and drive... Read more ›
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Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of China-sourced revenues to unlock export licenses for previously restricted chips. Read more ›
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A joint team has successfully 3D printed a titanium fuel tank that was able to pass a durability test for space travel. Read more ›
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Stockholm-based Aira has raised €150 million in equity financing to scale operations, expand its clean energy-tech range, boost R&D in Sweden, increase production in Poland, grow market presence, and strengthen industry partnerships. The investment is secured from existing investors, Altor, Kallskär, Kinnevik, Lingotto and Temasek. Aira is backed by other climate and innovation investors including the ... Read more ›
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Over 70 flights were diverted, including some back to their origins, and another 90 were canceled after Mexico City's airport was flooded. Read more ›
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Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. Read more ›
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"The thing that I did do was date a lot. And so when Barack showed up, I had experiences to compare him against," Michelle Obama said. Read more ›
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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every spring, Forest Service fire leaders meet to plan for the upcoming fire season. This year, some employees were shocked by the blunt remarks made during a meeting with forest supervisors and fire staff officers […] Read more ›
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, facing pressure from Trump over China ties, will reportedly meet the president to clarify his background and stress Intel’s national security role. Tan, who led Cadence Design, aims to secure support for Intel’s U.S. manufacturing amid strategic board tensions and slowed plant progress. Read more ›
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The debate over whether AI chipmakers should be allowed to sell their products to China has taken an unusual turn. The US government has reportedly given NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) permission to make the sales but for one big catch: 15 percent of the sales. The news was first reported by The Financial Times, which cited multiple people familiar with the agreement. In July, NVIDIA announced that the... Read more ›
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Amazon is still hosting massive discounts across the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup, with sales that beat Prime Day prices by about $50. In total, you'll find $200 off every M4 MacBook Air notebook right now on Amazon, with both 13-inch and 15-inch models on sale. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which... Read more ›
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We get yet another round of clean, unwatermarked renders across the flagship lineup. Read more ›
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Samsung's lock screen widget can display win probability info alongside sports fixtures. Read more ›
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The Trump administration has forced Nvidia and AMD to share their profits in exchange for access to the lucrative Chinese market, creating a radical new playbook for the U.S. tech war. Read more ›
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OpenAI unveiled its new flagship AI model, GPT-5, on Thursday. And with the launch, OpenAI seems to be moving more towards offering an entire AI system to its customers versus giving them the choice between models. The company said during a live-streamed presentation that it would be withdrawing user access to its older models, meaning that customers won’t be able to choose between models depending on how much they want... Read more ›
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Here’s a question: Which of Elon Musk’s companies is his most AI-focused business? The answer might seem obvious: xAI, developer of Grok. But it’s not that simple, as a letter from two Tesla directors to company shareholders on Monday demonstrates. The letter, explaining the board’s decision to grant Musk a new stock award valued at $23.7 billion to make up for the much bigger option nullified by the Delaware court,... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s X is using parent company xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tools to handle more of the social media site’s advertising business, Musk and other xAI executives said Wednesday. X is using Grok to improve targeting based on user data, Musk and xAI’s head of ads engineering Roman ... Read more ›
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Cognition, an artificial intelligence coding startup, has offered voluntary buyouts to the roughly 200 employees it acquired in a takeover of rival Windsurf three weeks ago, saying they will receive nine months of salary in return, according to an e-mail seen by The Information. The development comes after Cognition cut 30 staffers from the Windsurf team on Friday and shows how employees at AI startups can face wildly different outcomes... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier this year. In June, the social media giant hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as its chief AI officer and agreed to invest $14.3 billion... Read more ›
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Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team as its leader leaves the company, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The team had been building supercomputers powered by in-house chips that help train its vehicles’ self-driving software. Tesla plans to rely more heavily on chips from companies ... Read more ›
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Apple’s next iPhone unveiling is a month away, but OpenAI may have just sucked all the new tech product excitement out of the room with today’s GPT-5 unveiling. The livestream, featuring a parade of staffers highlighting the new flagship AI model’s range of impressive capabilities, was eerily reminiscent of an Apple iPhone event—slickly produced and tightly scripted. OpenAI’s speakers even used classic Apple phrases such as “We can’t wait for... Read more ›
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Cracks are beginning to show in the booming market for stocks of companies—like Michael Saylor’s Strategy—that do little other than hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. These stocks became a wildly popular way for investors to speculate on bitcoin and recently on more exotic cryptocurrencies. Valuations for Strategy, and for others including bitcoin holder Semler Scientific and solana holder Upexi, have come down a bit, while companies that own more speculative tokens... Read more ›
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In the M&A industry, bankers’ most important asset has historically been their rolodex. But the proliferation of AI chatbots appears to be changing that.When the boards of companies look to sell the business, they turn to M&A advisors to scope out suitable buyers. In the past, junior bankers assembling lists of potential buyers would have to spend hours researching and consolidating information, before checking in with senior bankers whose institutional... Read more ›
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Last Friday, the day after Figma went public with a 250% pop, former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan tweeted that Figma’s success was “a great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought by existing giants, can generate enormous value.” Good point. But for every Figma, there’s a Snap, whose CEO Evan Spiegel famously turned down a $6 billion buyout offer from Facebook, the... Read more ›
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