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The past week has been a steady drip, drip, drip of new details shedding light on Meta Platforms’ $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI and its hiring of the startup’s CEO, Alexandr Wang. The latest eye-opener came this morning in Stephanie and Cory’s profile of a Scale competitor, Surge AI, and its founder, Edwin Chen.In essence, they report, Surge has become the premium brand in data labeling, a business that involves recruiting experts to manually improve the quality of the responses from artificial intel
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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A key piece of crypto legislation passed the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, moving one step closer to becoming law and handing a win to the crypto industry in a political battle against the banking lobby. The crypto market structure bill, called the Clarity Act, would set clear rules for ... Read more ›
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Графические нейронки подарили редакторам сайтов, телеграм-каналов и прочим вебмастерам хорошую возможность – создать иллюстрации по текстовому описанию. Текст есть, ИИ-генератор есть, в чем же проблема?Проблема не столько в том, что иллюстрация может не подойти к материалу или к стилю сайта. Проблема в том, что ИИ-модели, даже самые мощные, не так-то просто заставить креативить. То есть, выдавать что-то небанальное и интересное.Особенно если вы не готовы сформулировать максимально точно, что хотите получить Read more ›
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If you’ve been curious about Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, right now they’re on sale in Meta’s biggest deal event outside Black Friday. As part of the company’s Summer Sale event, which runs through May 26th, the original model is on sale starting at $224.25 ($74 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Meta, matching […] Read more ›
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Дело было в девяностых годах прошлого века.Время беспокойное. Страна развалилась, люди обеднели, многие пытались уехать за границу. Особенно успешно отъезды получались у девушек, которые находили заграничных женихов.На этой ниве процветали брачные агентства, которые помогали с перепиской и оформлением документов. Но некоторые девушки пытались решить такие проблемы самостоятельно.И вот, ко мне обратилась за помощью одна знакомая. Хочу, говорит, вести переписку без агентства. Нужен компьютер и интернет.- Хоро Read more ›
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OpenAI appears to be headed into conflict with another big name partner, Apple. The AI startup is considering legal action against Apple over breach of contract related to the ChatGPT integration deal it announced with Apple two years ago, said an OpenAI employee familiar with the matter. The AI company has been trying to improve its relationship with Apple over the past few months, but there’s been a lack of... Read more ›
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Manny A. Varas, Miami developer known as the "Billionaire's Builder," discusses luxury home trends and what his wealthy clients want in their homes. Read more ›
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Swatch and Audemars Piguet's Royal Pop drop has fans camping in Times Square. The pocket watch collaboration has drawn excitement and division. Read more ›
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The mini projector is 35% off right now, featuring 1080P resolution and a smart design that transforms your viewing. Read more ›
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The trial is wrapping up with closing arguments on Thursday, so it's time to speculate! Read more ›
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Google is testing a new feature for Android phones that will learn from your usage habits and automatically recommend suggestions. The feature which is called Contextual suggestions is buried inside the Google services settings and the folks over at 9to5Google were able to access it on several Pixel 10 series devices (including the 10a) running Android 16 with Google Play services version 26.18. Contextual suggestions on Pixel 10a (credit: 9to5Google)... Read more ›
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The showrunner for the DC Studios series reveals more story details about the superhero tale starring Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler. Read more ›
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Under the new proposals, the lampposts in your street could double up as data centers with self-destructing, anti-tamper Nvidia chips. Read more ›
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The feature-packed smartwatch is just $5 off its all-time low price right now, and cheaper than it has been in months. Read more ›
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Two-thirds of American women between 38 and 50 say they felt better prepared to go through puberty than perimenopause. The statistic, from a nationally representative survey commissioned by Flo Health and conducted by Wakefield Research, captures something that decades of public health messaging have failed to fix: most women arrive at one of the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic customers are already feeling pinched by the company’s AI price hikes, Aaron and I reported Wednesday. Making matters harder, Anthropic customers like PagerDuty and ServiceNow, which says it already blew through its full-year budget for Anthropic AI tools, can’t predict what they’ll pay this year.One reason Anthropic costs are tough to predict, ServiceNow chief digital information officer Kellie Romack told me, is that Anthropic doesn’t automatically show customers the... Read more ›
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Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher. Read more ›
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Allen Control Systems, a four-year-old startup building an autonomous weapons station that can shoot down drones, is aiming to raise new funding at a valuation of $2 billion before the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the efforts. The startup is targeting a round size of roughly $200 million, the people said. The company’s target valuation would be over 14 times its last round, a remarkable increase even... Read more ›
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Airbnb’s revenue growth accelerated to 18% in the first quarter, from 10% in the previous two quarters, although the accommodation hosting service projected slightly slower growth for the second quarter. Airbnb projected revenue would grow between 14% to 16% in the second quarter. The ... Read more ›
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Broadcom’s stock dropped 2% following a report in The Information about an $18 billion financing snag in the chipmaker’s custom AI processor deal with OpenAI. Shares have partly recovered since then. Broadcom has stipulated it will only finance the initial phase of production if Microsoft agrees ... Read more ›
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CoreWeave’s revenue roughly doubled in the first quarter to $2 billion, while its operating loss jumped to $144 million. But the cloud provider said its revenue backlog has reached nearly $100 billion, up from $67 billion at the end of last year. The metric, which represents demand that has not ... Read more ›
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Coinbase, the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, reported first-quarter revenue of $1.4 billion, down 31% from a year ago amid a crypto market downturn. Shares fell 5% in after-hour trading. The company’s net loss in the quarter was $394 million, down from a net profit of $65.6 million a year ago but ... Read more ›
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Cloudflare said it is cutting about a fifth of its workforce, joining a growing list of tech companies that have cited AI as a reason to slash jobs. The company, whose content delivery network is used by many of the world’s websites, announced the plans on Thursday as it reported quarterly ... Read more ›
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Nvidia’s investment spree in startups that use its AI chips has stoked traditional venture capital firms’ interest in those companies. That has paved the way for brand-new startups taking on Anthropic and OpenAI to raise back-to-back funding rounds, sometimes in a matter of weeks. In the latest example, Core Automation, an AI model developer founded in late March by ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek, is aiming to raise between $300 million... Read more ›
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If you’re getting dizzy watching CoreWeave’s balancing act, you’re not alone. The AI cloud startup reported first-quarter numbers Thursday evening showing that its business is ramping up quickly—revenue doubled in the quarter to $2 billion compared to the year-earlier period—but its investment spending and operating expenses are also taking off. It’s no wonder CoreWeave is synonymous with the high-stakes gamble that underpins so much of the AI revolution.Here’s some earnings... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s team called the former dean of Columbia Law School to testify Thursday in his lawsuit against OpenAI that the ChatGPT maker acted in several ways inconsistent with nonprofit customs. David Schizer, who served as dean from 2004 to 2014 and specializes in tax and nonprofit law, ... Read more ›
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How soon is too soon to raise a new funding round?I’ve been covering venture capital long enough (more than a decade!) to remember that the hottest startups used to raise financing every 12-18 months. Then it was 9-12 months. Then 6-9 months. And now…two months? Two weeks? Recently, a wave of both early and late stage startups have been raising new rounds of capital right after closing other ones, in... Read more ›
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