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As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it’s getting help from more of its existing investors.
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Dragoneer Investment Group have committed to investing more than $1 billion each in the second, $30 billion installment of the round, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives. SV Angel, known for its investments in nascent startups, has committed to investing over $200 million in the round, according to the person.
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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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Chinese premier Li Qiang met with more than a dozen American executives on Thursday in Beijing, telling tech and corporate leaders that the U.S. and China “can and should continue to be friends, partners.” The meeting with Li, China’s No.2 official, is part of a series of activities in President ... Read more ›
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A corporate climate watchdog has dropped a rule proposal around clean energy certificates. Read more ›
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America has been experiencing a productivity boom for the past five years, and economists are debating what's driving it. Read more ›
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I always enjoy waking up to a social media post that begins "This is Miyamoto", and this morning was no exception. Earlier today, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto took over the company's X account to announce a new release date for the live-action Legend of Zelda film. Once scheduled for release on 7th May 2027, the Legend of Zelda film will now arrive on 30th April next year. "The team is working... Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide will reportedly have a 50MP wide camera and no telephoto lens. Read more ›
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The British government has laid out how a new Illegal Gambling Taskforce will operate as ministers step up pressure on… Continue reading Britain launches coordinated taskforce targeting illegal gambling payments advertising and operators Read more ›
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The Redmi Turbo 5 made its debut in China back in January and it is now set to make its way to India. Redmi India has begun teasing the device and its placeholder page on Amazon India is now live. We did not get an exact launch date just yet, but we can assume that it will follow in the coming days. Redmi also did not reveal any specs for... Read more ›
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Crypto markets weakened as inflation fears hit risk assets, triggering long liquidations, negative derivatives flows and renewed pressure on altcoins. Read more ›
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AMD now commands 38.1% of total x86 CPU revenue share, skyrockets past 46.2% x86 server CPU market share, according to Mercury Research. Read more ›
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28 февраля 2026 года через Ормузский пролив перестало проходить 20% мировой нефти. В один день. Цена нефти марки Brent улетела с $70 до $120. IEA назвало это крупнейшим нефтяным шоком в истории — больше, чем эмбарго 1973-го. Пока Трамп во всю забивает твитер постами о том, что все под контролем, нефть скоро подешевеет, война закончится и цены рухнут, да и вообще он так и все и задумывал, резервные хранилища Азиатских... Read more ›
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Google is rolling out a new AI-powered 'contextual suggestions' feature to Android users that recommends actions based on your daily habits, Android Authority reports. The feature is designed to predict your next action based on your location and habits - such as allowing music streaming apps to suggest your usual playlist when you arrive at […] Read more ›
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100 AI agents worked in unison to discover 16 flaws, including four critical-severity ones. Read more ›
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Continuous, decentralized identity must replace "point-in-time" logins Read more ›
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Порой на маркетплейсах можно найти довольно интересные и диковинные устройства от небольших производств в Китае. Ранее в блоге я часто рассказывал о такой диковинке, как игровые телефоны с аппаратными клонами Famicom, DIY-консоли формата "собери и напиши себе игры сам", а также о мелкосерийных игровых устройствах, выпущенных эксклюзивно для локального рынка Китая. Но недавно я увидел просто невероятную диковинку: консоль в стиле PlayStation 5 всего за 7.000 рублей... и моя гиковская... Read more ›
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Продолжаем разговор о промышленном дизайне, который начали в предыдущей публикации, поговорив про эстетику и как дизайнерам удается создавать вещи, которые нам нравятся. Разговор в этот раз будет более предметным и пойдет о гражданских беспилотниках, дизайн которых — это не столько про их внешность, сколь про поиск формы, пригодной для производства и не вступающей в противоречия с фундаментальными ограничениями. Ее стандарты для беспилотных автономных систем (БАС) еще не «забронзовели», и у... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s lawyers are close to resting their case against OpenAI, but his path to winning a blockbuster legal victory looks steeper than when the trial began, according to lawyers following the case. The Musk team is expected to wrap up its presentation by Monday, after nearly two weeks trying to prove his claim that OpenAI’s other co-founders “stole a charity.” The testimony so far has followed a pattern, with... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s servers are generally bursting at the seams, while xAI’s mountain of servers aren’t as busy, as we and others recently reported. That’s burning a multibillion-dollar hole in the pocket of new xAI owner SpaceX, which is trying to go public soon and is sure to receive tremendous scrutiny over its AI-related losses.So after xAI recently struck a deal to offload server capacity to AI coding assistant Cursor,... Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has privately demanded that Binance comply with a monitoring program U.S. regulators imposed on the crypto exchange in 2023, when it pleaded guilty to charges related to sanctions and anti–money-laundering violations, The Information has learned. The Treasury Department’s request—which it sent to Binance in a letter in the past few weeks—comes in the wake of recent reports that more than $1 billion flowed through... Read more ›
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After Microsoft bought the rights to use OpenAI’s technology for free, Microsoft developed a case of Copilot fever, launching Copilot-branded AI features in dozens of products, from Office and Bing to PowerBI and Dynamics. Microsoft appears to be dialing it back a bit, seemingly in response to complaints from customers that the Copilots are unnecessary or annoying. This week, for instance, newly appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Gaming... Read more ›
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When OpenAI and chip designer Broadcom announced last fall that they would make custom artificial intelligence chips together, they positioned it as a done deal. The companies said the deal would bring enough chips online before 2030 to consume 10 gigawatts of power, equivalent to five Hoover Dams’ worth of electricity, in a bid to lessen OpenAI’s costly dependence on Nvidia hardware. What they didn’t say was that they hadn’t... Read more ›
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Datadog reported revenue grew 32% to more than $1 billion in its March quarter—up 7% from last year—and raised its full-year projection to 26% growth, from the 20% it issued a few months ago. Shares of Datadog rose around 30% after its earnings report, suggesting investors’ fears about AI’s ... 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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