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Meta Platforms is in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment into the data-labeling startup Scale AI, Bloomberg reported. The investment could exceed $10 billion in value, which would make it Meta’s largest external investment in AI yet. Scale was valued at $14 billion last May in a ...
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The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump's newly released AI Action Plan. Read more ›
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Electric-car maker reports 23% drop in profits as sales suffer amid greater competition and consumer backlash Read more ›
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According to the study's results, after six months of working four-day weeks, workers reported less burnout, better sleep, and higher job satisfaction. Read more ›
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A new kind of political battle is emerging between America’s parties — one centers on the composition of Congress and congressional redistricting. This process usually occurs every decade, after the US Census finishes its work and releases new demographic information that states use to reconfigure how the 435 seats in the House of Representatives are […] Read more ›
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This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy. Read more ›
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Some Americans saw their health insurance premiums drop with Affordable Care Act subsidies. Now those are set to expire. Read more ›
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The Anker EverFrost 2 40L Electric Cooler turned me into the coolest person at any party. Read more ›
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Thingiverse, a popular 3D printing file repository, has agreed to remove downloadable gun designs following pressure from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who is pushing for stricter moderation and voluntary cooperation across the 3D printing industry. "However, it's unlikely to slow the proliferation of 3D printed weapons, as many other sites offer downloadable gun designs and parts," reports The Register. From the report: Earlier this year, Bragg wrote to 3D printing... Read more ›
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Critical Role is now selling tickets for its 2026 tour, which will take it to the O2 in London, a venue that rivals Madison Square Garden in size. Read more ›
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What does it mean to be a private individual in public? Are we all just characters waiting to go viral? These questions have resurfaced following the instantly-infamous Jumbotron incident that occurred during a Coldplay concert last week. Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, who’s married, and the company’s head of human resources, Kristin Cabot, were caught cuddling […] Read more ›
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My 4-year-old is transitioning to primary school in a few weeks. She's ready and excited. I'm not. Read more ›
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The company behind Truth Social is converting its cash into crypto, creating a high-stakes link between its future and the volatile digital currency. Read more ›
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WIRED stopped by the new Tesla Diner in Hollywood to try a $17 hotdog, watch a humanoid robot serve popcorn, and talk to people who still stan Elon Musk. Read more ›
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Trump's Department of Education said it is temporarily pausing student-loan forgiveness under IBR plans to comply with ongoing court orders. Read more ›
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Donald Trump's suit against Rupert Murdoch is extraordinary. NPR's David Folkenflik tells me whether it's likely to be successful. Read more ›
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Not long ago, President Donald Trump hadn’t even heard of Nvidia, the most valuable tech company in the world. But once he found out about the AI chip giant, he says, he wanted to break it up. “Before I learned the facts of life, I said, ‘we’ll break him up,’” Trump recalled today, in a […] Read more ›
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The political world’s frenzy over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has essentially blotted out the sun. That’s even though Epstein has been dead for nearly six years, and the scandal around him has no apparent import to American public policy. So why is the obsession over it so intense? The known facts around Epstein are genuinely […] Read more ›
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ChatGPT is already handling one sixth of Google’s daily search volume, and Sam Altman says he’s just getting started. Read more ›
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As Russian drone attacks increase, Ukraine orders $72 million on interceptor drones and other tech to strengthen air defenses. Read more ›
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OpenAI is continuing its push into the application layer with ChatGPT “agents.” As we scooped this week, it plans new features that will allow users to create and edit spreadsheets and presentations, generate reports and automate tasks on their browsers—all through ChatGPT.There was one interesting detail in that news that you might have missed. Instead of leveraging a computer-using agent that would open and click around in a PowerPoint or... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Flying taxis near reality thanks to an unexpected boost from Toyota• The Top 5: A tech mogul’s guide to summer fashion, Sun Valley style • Plus, our Recommendations: “Flesh and Code,” “The CIA Book Club” and “Su Majestad.”Silicon Valley has many flaws. A prominent one: an industrywide aversion to good, catchy names. Too many lowercase letters. Too few vowels. Sometimes a name... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Apple’s technical progress in AI while also harnessing the help of outside researchers to improve the models. Still, it also would have revealed to the public how dramatically the performance of the models dropped when Apple shrunk them to fit on iPhones, compared... Read more ›
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Cursor has restricted China-based users from accessing U.S. models offered by its coding assistant software, such as Claude-4-Sonnet and Gemini-2.5-Pro, according to three users. These users received notifications stating that these models had become unavailable due to location-based ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has hired three more artificial intelligence researchers from Google DeepMind as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive efforts to recover from stumbles earlier this year with an unprecedented AI recruiting push. The latest hires—Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du and Weiyue Wang—worked on a version of Google’s Gemini model that the search giant this week said had solved problems in this year’s International Math Olympiad at a level that... Read more ›
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We’ve written a lot lately about the hefty stock packages companies like Meta Platforms, OpenAI and others are dishing out to recruit artificial intelligence researchers. Outside AI, many private company CEOs are also recalibrating how they use shares to keep and reward people. Take, for instance, Armis. The nine-year-old cybersecurity startup has recently completed a $100 million buyback of shares held by current employees, funded by new and existing investors,... Read more ›
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The crypto industry today scored its biggest win in Congress with the passage in the House of Representatives of the Genius Act. The bill, which the Senate cleared last month, legitimizes and regulates stablecoins, crypto tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it quickly. It’s a moment of rejoicing for crypto, which has bounced back from an excruciating downturn and regulatory crackdown under President... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ new artificial intelligence organization is starting to take shape on the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus. The company’s blockbuster hires of AI leaders and researchers in recent weeks has introduced dozens of new faces to the area around Meta’s C-suite, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made room for Meta Superintelligence Labs, the new name for the company’s AI team. Staffers have to pass through two layers of security... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with other current and former directors and executives at the company, on Thursday agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit that had accused them of allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware ... Read more ›
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What do you get when you mix plenty of the world’s most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway camp setup in Idaho? Well, for years, the Sun Valley Conference, hosted by Allen & Co., the ultrasecretive investment bank, was a place to hobnob and perhaps strike a deal. It’s something else now: an honest-to-goodness fashion event, with more and more attendees clearly putting considerable effort into what they put on each... Read more ›
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