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Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion, two people familiar with the matter said. The unusual deal will be structured so Meta will send the cash to Scale’s existing shareholders and place the startup’s CEO, Alexandr Wang, in a top position inside Meta, the people said.
The deal, which hasn’t yet been finalized, appears to be a rich one for Scale’s shareholders, with big paydays for some of Scale’s biggest investors such as Accel, Index Ventures, Founders Fund a
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E.J. Antoni, President Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said it should suspend the monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns. Read more ›
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For now, the changes should help placate users who felt frustrated by the sudden shift to GPT-5 and deprecation of OpenAI's older LLMs. Read more ›
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Following a settlement between Robby Starbuck and Meta, the far-right influencer will advise the company on developing politically "neutral" AI tools. Read more ›
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The new 'Alien' show, from creator Noah Hawley and producer Ridley Scott, is now on FX and Hulu. Read more ›
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Apple today responded to Elon Musk's claims that the App Store favors OpenAI's ChatGPT app, telling Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that the App Store is "fair and free of bias." The App Store is designed to be fair and free of bias. We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations, and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria. Our goal is to offer safe discovery for users and valuable... Read more ›
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How do Israelis feel about the increasingly horrifying crimes its government is committing in Gaza? This is one of the key questions going forward. Israel is a (teetering) democracy with elections scheduled for next year. The public’s attitudes could — by putting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition — play a major role in determining if, […] Read more ›
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Claude’s new selective memory lets users retrieve past conversations on command. Read more ›
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The cast of the live-action adaptation has spoken out against the abuse received by Chandran, who joins season two as Miss Wednesday. Read more ›
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Both Russia and Ukraine have outfitted their tanks and vehicles with DIY protection against drones. The designs keep getting weirder. Read more ›
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Anne Jakrajutatip's "blond hair and blue eyes" comment sparked backlash. Now, a former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA are calling it "destructive." Read more ›
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Taylor Swift is merging the marketing campaign for her new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," with the business ventures of her boyfriend, Travis Kelce. Read more ›
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Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that's the point. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump announced his new nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday evening, less than two weeks after firing the agency’s […] Read more ›
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The UK government says that a nationally significant drought is so bad that citizens should delete old emails and images to reduce water usage in data centers. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift announced a new album, "The Life of a Showgirl." More details will likely be revealed in the next episode of Travis Kelce's podcast. Read more ›
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While the summer months are often relatively quiet for Apple, the company still has many new products coming later this year. Below, we have outlined at least 10 new Apple products that are expected to launch later this year, along with key rumored features for each. This article was originally published last month, and it has been updated with the latest rumors. iPhone 17 Series iPhone 17: Same design as... Read more ›
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On Monday, President Donald Trump released an executive order invoking a rarely used federal law that allows him to temporarily seize control over Washington, DC’s police force. Later the same day, DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser seemed to concede that there’s nothing she can do about it. “What I would point you to is the […] Read more ›
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Jenna Ortega's sophomore turn as Wednesday Addams has already spooked up a ratings hit for Netflix. Read more ›
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World Liberty Financial has struck a deal that will turn a little-known company into a vehicle for betting on the price of its crypto coin. Read more ›
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ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes, according to several people briefed on the breach. It is not clear what entity is responsible, whether an arm of... 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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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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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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Bullish, a Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange and owner of news outlet CoinDesk, is seeking to raise as much as $990 million in its U.S. IPO, up from its target of $629 million last week. The Cayman Islands-based company is planning to offer 30 million shares at $32 to $33 per share, it said in ... 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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Last year, when money was surging into artificial intelligence startups, even some venture capitalists involved in those deals worried that the high costs of AI and unreliable demand from businesses were setting up many startups for disappointment. Such skepticism, if not dead, is on its last legs. Monthly revenue that is doubling or quadrupling this year at startups such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor-maker Anysphere have shown that businesses and... Read more ›
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Investors have embraced vibe coding as the next big thing in artificial intelligence. They are pouring cash into fast-growing companies offering coding assistants that can speed the work of software engineers—or potentially replace them. That optimism may be shortsighted. The companies that make AI models, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are developing their own coding assistants, creating serious competition. Most coding assistant startups rely on these same AI giants to... Read more ›
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Nvidia and AMD will give the U.S. government a 15% cut of the sales of their chips in China, in exchange for receiving export licenses for the Chinese market, The Financial Times reported. The unusual arrangement will affect China sales of Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s MI308 chips, for which the U.S. ... Read more ›
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