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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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This is the Infinix Hot 60 Pro, and it's the more conventional phone in the new series. While its sibling, the 60 Pro+, is a bit thinner and curvier, the Hot 60 Pro is nearly as thin and light, but has a flat design that some will like better. The regular Hot 60 Pro also has a few hardware advantages over its Pro+ counterpart - you get a dedicated AI... Read more ›
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With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. Read more ›
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Elon Musk posted on X that Grok Imagine, his AI-powered video-to-text generator, "is AI Vine," adding that he was working to restore the defunct app. Read more ›
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UK-based cyber security group steps up investment plans following takeover by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo Read more ›
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GOG has launched an all-new project to raise awareness of censorship in gaming: FreedomToBuy.Games. Read more Read more ›
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Battlefield 6 is taking advantage of EA's Javelin anti-cheat system, which enforced Secure Boot and is classified as a kernel-level AC, potentially killing Linux and Steam Deck support before the game launches. Read more ›
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When my young daughter told her dolls she was too busy with a work call to talk, I knew I had to shift my priorities. Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Aug. 3, #784. Read more ›
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Established in 1943 to coordinate America's building of the first atomic bomb, the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico is still "one of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions" notes Wikipedia. And it now has a "National Security AI Office," where senior director Jason Pruet is working to help "prepare for a future in which AI will reshape the landscape of science and security," according to the... Read more ›
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Parrie Hartley, 30, didn't want the cookie-cutter life, so she left her tech job in Austin, Texas, and moved to Barcelona. She's happier. Read more ›
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![iPhone 17 Pro's Metal Battery With Lower Capacity Allegedly Revealed [Updated]](https://times42.com/media/9/5/2/10930952_640x200.jpg "iPhone 17 Pro's Metal Battery With Lower Capacity Allegedly Revealed [Updated]")
Update — August 2: Majin Bu now says that this battery is actually for the iPhone 17 Pro, and there will apparently be two variants for models with and without a physical SIM card tray. "Due to a miscommunication with my source, the information I reported yesterday is incorrect," said Majin Bu. Original story follows. A leaker known as Majin Bu today shared images of an alleged battery pack for... Read more ›
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In a federal court in Massachusetts on Friday, Apple sued a small movie theater chain named Apple Cinemas over alleged trademark infringement. "Apple Cinemas is knowingly and intentionally using the name Apple to sow confusion for its own benefit," alleged attorneys for Apple, in a complaint filed against all Apple Cinemas locations, and a Sand Media Corp Inc. company connected to the chain. Established in 2013, Apple Cinemas maintained a... Read more ›
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A call for a community benchmark for Cyberpunk 2077 running on macOS revealed a wide range of results. Read more ›
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2025's re-release wave continues with the return of 'Batman,' 'Batman Returns,' and 'Casper' to the silver screen. Read more ›
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The women-only app Tea now "faces two class action lawsuits filed in California" in response to a recent breach," reports NPR — even as the company is now boasting it has more than 6.2 million users. A spokesperson for Tea told the CBC it's "working to identify any users whose personal information was involved" in a breach of 72,000 images (including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs) and... Read more ›
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Darksiders 4 is officially coming. During the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase on Friday, we got a glimpse at the next game in the hack and slash action-adventure franchise, alongside trailers for roughly a dozen other games that are in the works, including Reanimal and The Eternal Life of Goldman. It's been a while since we've seen a new mainline Darksiders title from developer Gunfire Games, and while the fourth entry... Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Aug. 2, #783. Read more ›
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In its Q2 2025 earnings release, DJT said it had acquired $2B billionin bitcoin and related securities, and allocated $300 million to an options-based BTC strategy. Read more ›
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OpenAI roughly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching $12 billion in annualized revenue, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives. That figure implies the ChatGPT maker is generating $1 billion a month, compared to about $500 million a month at the start of the year. The growth comes as the company logs roughly 700 million weekly active users for its ChatGPT products... Read more ›
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Groq, a richly funded chip startup trying to take on Nvidia, told investors early this year it was on track to have more than $2 billion in revenue for 2025. Within the past month, the number it gave to investors has fallen to more than $500 million, according to documents viewed by The Information. Groq’s $2 billion projection came around the time it inked a $1.5 billion deal with Saudi... Read more ›
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This year’s torrid deal-making pace is definitely not taking a pause for summer. On Wednesday, I reported that OpenAI is months ahead of schedule in raising money for its $40 billion megaround. Investors are pouring in money at a moment when OpenAI is generating $12 billion in annualized revenue and hitting 700 million weekly active users for its ChatGPT products, including both consumers and business customers. Investors are also keen... Read more ›
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Fireworks AI, a three-year-old startup that rents out Nvidia chip servers to developers that use artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners and Index Ventures, The Information reported. A ... Read more ›
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When Google’s billionaire co-founder, Sergey Brin, needs something done at the company’s artificial intelligence unit—AI chips allocated to a team, a researcher hired, an employee moved to a new department—there’s one person he messages: Koray Kavukcuoglu. Kavukcuoglu isn’t Google’s flashiest AI leader, though he’s the chief technology officer of its AI unit, Google DeepMind, and the chief AI architect for the entire company. He lacks the celebrity of Brin and... Read more ›
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Before we get to today's column, my colleague Valida and I reported Tuesday that Canadian AI model maker Cohere is in talks to raise up to $500 million in a new funding round at a $6.3 billion valuation. Existing investors Inovia Capital and Radical Ventures are in talks to invest in the round. This company recently generated revenue at an annual pace of $100 million. At a $6.3 billion valuation,... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley royalty are set to be the big winners from Figma’s initial public offering this week. Former Meta and Google executive Sheryl Sandberg, former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins are all turning modest investments into windfalls ranging from tens of millions to more than $1 billion. Sandberg and Weiner were among the participants in Figma’s seed round, via a roughly $1.5... Read more ›
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Amazon is taking steps to keep other companies’ artificial intelligence shopping tools from swarming its e-commerce site. In recent weeks, Amazon updated the code underpinning its website to add language warding off new AI agents from Google. These changes follow restrictions Amazon added earlier this year calling out bots from Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Read more ›
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OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better on tasks when it gets more time and computing power to process them. The results implied ChatGPT customers were about to be blown away by what the new AI could do. But the euphoria was short-lived. When OpenAI researchers turned the new AI into a chat-based version called... Read more ›
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Nearly everywhere I look, I’m seeing signs of how artificial intelligence is shaking up the way we engage online, from shopping to social media. OpenAI is reportedly working on a new checkout feature, betting that more consumers will turn to chatbots like its ChatGPT to find and purchase products. At the same time, I’m seeing an influx of realistic AI videos on my social media feeds, while a new generation... Read more ›
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