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Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing, straining partnerships that need a unified front. It helps sometimes to have just one decision-maker.That makes a case for Elad Gil, a prolific investor who made early investments in Perplexity, Harvey, Stripe and Airbnb. Gil is raising a fund of around $1.5 billion to back both young and mature startups, according to two people with knowledge on the matter. He h
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YouTubers have discovered terrible performance on The Outer Worlds 2, so much so that the game's maximum settings with ray tracing can only be run at below 60 FPS at a 540p internal resolution on an RTX 5090. Read more âș
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Zombies have a tendency to come back from the dead, but that's not the case with Shaun...of the dead. Read more âș
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The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's tariffs under the IEEPA were legal, a ruling that could expand or limit presidential trade authority. Read more âș
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OpenAI has been catching more heat for alleged copyright infringement, and now companies like Square Enix and Ghibli have put their foot down. Read more âș
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Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft are trying to prevent âindirect prompt injection attacksâ by hackers Read more âș
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My ex and I let our kids nest in my house. He comes every other weekend to spend time with them. They don't stress about moving from place to place. Read more âș
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Travelers hoping to fly out for Newark are facing hourslongs delays as the government shutdown continues. Read more âș
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The teenager told BI he had a "good feeling" about investing in tech companies in 2024. "I caught the AI wave at the perfect time," he said. Read more âș
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Animal rights advocates often contrast humanityâs dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of pet cats and dogs â the point being that these distinctions between animals that are equally sentient are arbitrary, hypocritical, and pointlessly cruel. The comparison makes an important point, but it also conceals a grimmer [âŠ] Read more âș
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It's not often we see a graphics card that is almost completely fried across the board. That's what happened with this poor RTX 4090 whose 12V rail leaked into the memory, frying the VRAM and travelling to the core in the process, killing the GPU for good. Not only that, but the card was also comically bent to the point where suggesting someone might've used it as a self-defense weapon... Read more âș
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"It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists," writes MIT Technology Review. " Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person browsing websites, it is the company collecting data about what and how that person is browsing." New York... Read more âș
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Teachers on military bases across the pond are working without pay amid the shutdown, Their landlords are confused why they suddenly can't pay rent. Read more âș
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The foundations of internet communications were set 56 years ago, when 'LO' was transmitted from UCLA to SRI on the ARPANET. Read more âș
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Waymo is drawing ire in San Francisco after the owner of a beloved bodega cat said the feline was run over and killed by the company's robotaxi. Read more âș
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We're a married couple who channeled our mutual obsession with true crime into a full-time podcasting business that eventually replaced our careers. Read more âș
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Bluesky is testing out a dislike feature aimed at making your feed more personalized. Read more âș
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'Saturday Night Live' mocked Donald Trump's White House demolition with a 'Property Brothers' sketch. Read more âș
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Despite AMD putting RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPU drivers under maintenance mode, GPU driver support in Linux will remain unchanged. Read more âș
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 876 for Monday, Nov. 3. Read more âș
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OpenAI "hasn't yet turned a profit," notes Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins. "Its annual revenue is 2% of Amazon.com's sales. "Its future is uncertain beyond the hope of ushering in a godlike artificial intelligence that might help cure cancer and transform work and life as we know it. Still, it is brimming with hope and excitement. "But what if OpenAI fails?" There's real concern that through many complicated... Read more âș
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Things have never been better for Shopify. The e-commerce firmâs stock is trading near all-time highs. And a recent deal with OpenAI has put Shopify in a position to capitalize on AI-fueled shopping by easily allowing its merchants to sell products through ChatGPT. And yet Shopify is seeing the kind of executive turnover normally associated with companies that are struggling. Read more âș
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About half of subscribers to The Information who responded to our latest survey said they bought or sold cryptocurrency, crypto exchange-traded funds or crypto treasury stocks in the past three months. Notably, more of our readers are buying than selling: 47% of all respondents said they bought crypto or something related in the past three months, while just 25% said they sold. The surveyâs findings are based on 528 responses. Read more âș
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Stock market investors fell in love with crypto this year, setting off a big rally in public markets. Now the buying frenzy has rebounded back to privately held companies like crypto exchange Kraken and payments firm Ripple, whose valuations have soared. Kraken, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, is raising money at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter, after getting $500 million in new... Read more âș
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SoftBank is set to complete its $30 billion investment in OpenAI, after its board approved a $22.5 billion second installment on the deal, The Information reported. The remainder of its investment is contingent on OpenAIâs corporate restructuring, which would pave the way for a public offering ... Read more âș
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Payments tech giant Fiservâs stock collapsed 45% on Wednesday morning after the company slashed its revenue growth outlook for 2025 and announced a management shakeup. Fiserv, whose Clover payments service competes with companies such as Square, reported 1% revenue growth for the third quarter ... Read more âș
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Defense tech company Anduril expects to burn through $800 million to $900 million in cash this year in an aggressive bid to win giant Pentagon contracts. Investors big and small are unperturbed, lining up to back the fast-growing seller of drones, missiles and border surveillance towers. The company appears to be the most coveted stock in the private markets, with small investors on the secondary market willing to pay nearly... Read more âș
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Microsoft last year got more aggressive about getting people to pay up for artificial intelligence features in its Office productivity suite, such as those that draft emails or summarize documents. It began including AI features by default and raising the baseline price of Office for individual consumers by 30%. The maneuver paid off, as revenue from that business line has been growing at its fastest rate in years. Read more âș
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One August morning, Kaarage woke up and took the train from the Japanese countryside into the city. She went to a restaurant and enjoyed a lunch of vegetables and soup, as well as an iced coffee. Afterward, she studied a musical score on her iPad, then went home to relax. Kaarage is not a person: Sheâs an internet-beloved Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casioâyes, Casioâwho shares a charming, bucolic... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Inside Benchmarkâs high-stakes pressure test ⹠Artificial Intelligence: The VCs who turned vibe code into whimsical passion projectsâą Artificial Intelligence: Venerable Casioâs surprise hit? An AI robopet ⹠WTF: Behind the scenes at our summit for the most powerful and influential women in tech, media and finance ⹠The Arena: WNBA owner Clara Wu Tsai has a $1 billion planâą Plus, our... Read more âș
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A memo from Californiaâs attorney general suggested that Elon Muskâs federal lawsuit against OpenAI will be unaffected by the artificial intelligence startupâs restructuring. But now that the restructuring has occurred, it may be hard to unwind the change even if Musk wins. Both the attorneys ... Read more âș
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