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The cost of acqui-hiring talent keeps rising! Meta Platforms agreed to shell out close to $15 billion for a 49% stake in data-labeling startup Scale AI, whose CEO Alexandr Wang will be joining Meta in a senior position, my colleague Cory Weinberg reported yesterday. I spoke with a number of Scale investors yesterday who shared their uncertainty about what the deal means for the company’s future.Just as important, though, are the implications for the broader industry that Scale has been leading. AI developer
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Cosmos magazine about a plan to "pick up those faint signals from billions of years ago." Astronomers are planning to launch a tiny spacecraft to the far side of the Moon to listen out for "ancient whispers" in a quest to uncover the secrets of the early universe. The mission will focus on understanding the 'Cosmic Dawn', a period in the early stages... Read more ›
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Elon Musk's AI firm xAI issued an apology after its chatbot Grok posted multiple antisemitic posts, lauding Hitler. Read more ›
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The Commodore 64 Ultimate will be the first new hardware released under the auspices of the new management, and pricing starts at $299. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Jalopnik: On July 2, the 88th anniversary of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced an expedition [which will launch in November] to confirm whether or not the wreckage of her plane has been found. Satellite imagery from a decade ago indicated the presence of something that sure looks plane-like under the waters of Nikumaroro Island, an uninhabited spit of land in... Read more ›
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The White House's play at bandwagoning on the 'Superman' hype highlights just how fast the right-wing grift machine runs. Read more ›
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A new Apple TV is expected to be released later this year, and a handful of new features and changes have been rumored for the device. Below, we recap what to expect from the next Apple TV, according to rumors. Rumors Faster Wi-Fi Support The next Apple TV will be equipped with Apple's own combined Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. He said the chip supports Wi-Fi... Read more ›
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Monica Virga Alborno moved to Norway for work and now is raising her 4 and 2 year olds. She had nine months of parental leave and her husband had four. Read more ›
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"Firefox is dead to me," wrote Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols last month for The Register, complaining about everything from layoffs at Mozilla to Firefox's discontinuation of Pocket and Fakespot, its small market share, and some user complaints that the browser might be becoming slower. But a new rebuttal (also published by The Register) argues instead that Mozilla just has "a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its... Read more ›
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Used Nintendo Switch games that have been copied and are being sold online might get your Switch 2 banned for life. Read more ›
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It's been reported that Americans should stop drinking coffee in the summer heat. We reached out to experts to see if that's true. Read more ›
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The final between the two top-ranked players in the world will be one not to miss. Here's how to catch the Wimbledon final on Sunday. Read more ›
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As everyone knows, the RTX 5090 was not expensive enough as is, so Asus decided to finally help out poor Nvidia by making one out of pure gold. It's comprised of half a million dollars' worth of gold, so you can enjoy your games knowing you didn't pay over MSRP for a 5090. Read more ›
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Raynor Winn's "The Salt Path" was marketed as an inspiring true story. People close to the situation claimed part of the story were fabricated. Read more ›
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A fake VPN hosted on GitHub installs Lumma Stealer, spreading stealthily via trusted system tools and evading detection. Read more ›
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Some in Congress are warning that making the DOGE cuts would undermine the bipartisan government funding process. Read more ›
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Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path […] Read more ›
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Compact, energy-efficient microreactors could soon help generate electricity for remote locations. Read more ›
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Upcoming iGame Ultra GPU adds two NVMe drives using PCIe bifurcation. Read more ›
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How to watch Wimbledon for free. Live stream Alcaraz vs. Sinner in the Wimbledon 2025 final for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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Lucid Motors set a Guinness World Record for the longest journey by an electric car on a single charge, covering a distance of 749 miles (about 1,205 km), reports New Atlas. "In doing so, Lucid broke the 1,045-km (649-mile) record previously achieved by the Mercedes-Benz EQS450+ in June 2025 by the Japanese car website www.webcg.net/articles/-/52268webCG." The electric vehicle covered this journey between St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany, traveling through... 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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The most important cryptocurrency bill in history could become law next week, but its immediate effect on everyday Americans will be negligible. Instead, the biggest impact will occur overseas, where it will boost both crypto and the dollar in the global economy. The law will bolster confidence in stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to a traditional asset, generally the U.S. dollar. Individuals and businesses across the world—from Argentina to Turkey—have embraced stablecoins... Read more ›
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The term “agent” or “agentic” has become so ubiquitous in the business world that it can now seem to mean everything or nothing at all. In its simplest form, an agent is artificial intelligence that handles multistep tasks without requiring a human to steer it the whole time. In other words, an agent goes beyond what the basic version of ChatGPT can do. In the past year, AI firms have... Read more ›
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Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much fresh blood into the company to lead a turnaround? One outgoing research scientist from Meta’s generative AI group has come up with... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4, the latest generation of its AI models, intensifying its competition with rivals OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. In an hourlong livestream Wednesday night, Musk said Grok 4 is the “smartest AI in the world” and “smarter than almost all graduate students in all ... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity startups are busy touting their next big opportunity: safeguarding companies from the threats generated by artificial intelligence. That’s led to surging revenue for some of them. But previously unreported financial details for others—particularly young startups focused on safeguarding AI models—show corporate IT buyers have been slow to pay for this protection. Three-year-old HiddenLayer, which sells software to protect AI models from attacks that hurt their performance or accuracy, is... Read more ›
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Several startups offering computing power for artificial intelligence are embracing the “borrow big to grow fast” strategy pioneered by CoreWeave, loading up on debt backed by their stocks of high-powered chips. For instance, London-based cloud startup Fluidstack has gotten approval from Macquarie and other lenders to borrow more than $10 billion leveraging its holdings of Nvidia AI chips, or graphics processing units, as collateral, said people familiar with the company’s... Read more ›
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Tesla shares closed down 6.8% at $293.94 on Monday after CEO Elon Musk said over the weekend that he was forming a new political party and continued to spar with President Donald Trump. Musk said in a Saturday X post that he would launch the “America Party” that would support congressional ... 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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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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