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Recently, I argued that OnlyFans could sell itself for at least $30 billion, or nearly four times the price Ukrainian-American billionaire Leonid Radvinsky is reportedly considering, if only it finds an investor willing to overlook the stigma associated with porn. At the same time, though, the company faces the same threat looming over hundreds of more mundane tech companies: disruption by artificial intelligence. The proliferation of AI sex chatbots is âinevitable,â said Amy P., the co-founder of Dirty Deb
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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 âș
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Funding comes through FABrIC network, which aims to grow Canadaâs advanced semiconductor capabilities. Read more âș
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HTTP Live Streaming support will let Apple Podcasts play Spotify-hosted video podcasts. Read more âș
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The flaw is in the same family as Dirty Frag and allows privilege escalation at kernel level. Read more âș
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I organized my life around my Wordle streak. After 222 days, I broke it, and it was both painful and freeing. Read more âș
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A new behind-the-scenes clip highlights the stunts and fan response to 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day.' Read more âș
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An extra $50 will get you even nicer materials on the already high-end headphones. Read more âș
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Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAIâs Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These departures come on top of the exits of all of xAIâs co-founders besides Elon Musk. Read more âș
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Smartphones all but killed standalone cameras, however, retro devices always hold a special appeal. This has some people going back to film cameras, others are digging out point-and-shoot cameras that have been gathering dust for years and others still are going for faux-retro devices. Insta360 Ace Pro 2 retro-inspired bundle A while back, Insta360 released several kits for the Insta360 Ace Pro 2 â the Flash Print Bundle, for example,... Read more âș
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Omaha-based fintech startup AeQuitas Invest (AQi) has launched the first SEC-registered, women-led Regulation Crowdfunding portal designed specifically to close the persistent capital gap for women founders. Read more âș
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Want Razerâs largest, most powerful gaming laptop? Youâll spend way more than last year. Read more âș
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week. [...] Before U.S. export curbs tightened, Nvidia commanded about... Read more âș
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Only 27% of Americans support AI data center construction in their communities. Read more âș
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The One UI 9 beta introduces a new setting to hide this particular split-screen clutter. Read more âș
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The name is the tell. Graphon AI, which emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $8.3 million in seed funding, is named after a mathematical object that most people in AI have never heard of and that its two most prominent advisors helped invent. A graphon is the limit of a sequence of dense graphs: a [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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OpenAI is preparing to potentially take legal action against Apple due to a "strained" relationship with the iPhone maker, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The two companies reached a partnership in 2024 that saw ChatGPT integrated into features like Siri and Image Playground across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. iPhone users can also subscribe to ChatGPT directly via the Settings app, with Apple taking a cut of revenue. Ultimately, though, the... Read more âș
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Watch three Figure 03 robots take turns sorting through packages on a conveyor belt, at speeds similar to humans. Read more âș
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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 companyâs target valuation would be over 14 times its last round, a remarkable increase even... Read more âș
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Airbnbâs 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 âș
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Broadcomâs stock dropped 2% following a report in The Information about an $18 billion financing snag in the chipmakerâs 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 âș
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CoreWeaveâs 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 âș
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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 companyâs net loss in the quarter was $394 million, down from a net profit of $65.6 million a year ago but ... Read more âș
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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 worldâs websites, announced the plans on Thursday as it reported quarterly ... Read more âș
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Nvidiaâs investment spree in startups that use its AI chips has stoked traditional venture capital firmsâ 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 âș
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If youâre getting dizzy watching CoreWeaveâs balancing act, youâre not alone. The AI cloud startup reported first-quarter numbers Thursday evening showing that its business is ramping up quicklyârevenue doubled in the quarter to $2 billion compared to the year-earlier periodâbut its investment spending and operating expenses are also taking off. Itâs no wonder CoreWeave is synonymous with the high-stakes gamble that underpins so much of the AI revolution.Hereâs some earnings... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs 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 âș
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How soon is too soon to raise a new funding round?Iâve 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 nowâŠtwo 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 âș
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