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Chinese artificial intelligence model developer Zhipu AI, whose progress has attracted Washington’s scrutiny and caught OpenAI’s attention, expects its revenue to increase as much as fourfold this year from a modest $42 million in 2024, the Beijing-based startup’s CEO, Zhang Peng, said in an interview this week.
Zhang’s bullish 2025 growth forecast reflects the acceleration of China’s domestic AI usage this year. That’s partly due to DeepSeek’s release of its R1 model in January, which prompted a wave of i
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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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GameStop has declared that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are now officially retro consoles, with the change now allowing trade-in of any console that still powers on, even if they are faulty or "aesthetically unfortunate." Read more ›
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First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a portentous set of twin babies in the new trailer for Dune: Part Three. Warner Bros. has debuted its first full trailer for Denis Villeneuve's third Dune film. Thankfully, it doesn't give everything about the film away, but it does put a spotlight on a few of […] Read more ›
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Spider-Man 4 marks Tom Holland's next outing as the titular superhero — and he'll be joined by a host of famous faces in the MCU movie. Read more ›
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With Meta fumbling the bag on privacy, Samsung's "Galaxy Glasses" might be appealing by default. Read more ›
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"There are countless upgrades you could make to your gaming setup," writes PC Gamer's Jacob Ridley. "A wireless this, a bigger that, a faster thing. But how do you know what's going to be a genuine upgrade worth investing in? Personally, I think it might be split spacebars." His argument centers on the fact that spacebars take up a "greedy" amount of keyboard space -- space that could instead be... Read more ›
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Spotify is rolling out a redesigned Wear OS app with swipe-based navigation, richer visuals, and quicker access to playback controls. Read more ›
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Brazil’s new Digital ECA law requires online providers to implement strict age verification. A massive surge in VPN usage suggests citizens are turning to encryption to protect their privacy. Read more ›
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We might not have had a proper Nintendo Direct in 2026 yet, but there have been plenty of Switch and Switch 2-related announcements in the last few weeks, including a release date for the Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, a surprise port of Kena: Bridge of Spirits and the final trailer for the imminent The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. But if you’re a Switch 2 owner who prefers to play... Read more ›
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With the new Handheld Mode Boost feature, the Switch 2 can run games as if docked even in handheld mode, delivering better visuals and performance. Read more ›
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Компания Nvidia представила платформу Space-1 Vera Rubin для переноса вычислительных мощностей за пределы Земли. Новое оборудование обеспечивает производительность инференса в 25 раз выше, чем у серверных процессоров H100. Платформа уже тестируется шестью коммерческими партнерами, создающими первые орбитальные центры обработки данных. Читать далее Read more ›
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Galbot and researchers taught a robot how to play tennis without extensive training, and it could be a robots-in-sports game changer. Read more ›
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The debut follows the release of Dyson's newest robot vacuum and larger wet cleaner last week. Read more ›
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Lowe's is a major name in home improvement, but a JD Power survey indicates that it isn't the most satisfying home appliance retailer out there. Read more ›
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There's an official WhatsApp app for select Garmin smartwatches. It's available for free right now in the Garmin Connect IQ Store. WhatsApp is primarily a chat platform, so this new app allows users to read and reply to messages, send emojis and peruse the chat history. The app also lets users accept or decline incoming calls arriving from the platform, all without having to break out the smartphone. This is... Read more ›
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Google is providing its Gemini “Agent Designer” to the Department of Defense for unclassified work, Google announced on Tuesday. The feature, which will be part of the Pentagon’s AI platform GenAI.mil, will allow DOD employees to create AI agents to automate administrative tasks like drafting ... Read more ›
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A judge ordered Perplexity to temporarily stop accessing Amazon’s website, a victory in the e-commerce giant’s lawsuit against the AI search startup. Amazon sued Perplexity in November, arguing Perplexity was fraudulently accessing its site through its AI browser Comet in order to make purchases ... Read more ›
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Microsoft appears to be betting that its tried-and-true subscription pricing model for software is here to stay, even in the era of AI agents that run 24/7, and that customers will be OK with ever-higher prices.Microsoft on Monday announced a new AI subscription bundle that combines Office 365 and with 365 Copilot, a suite of AI tools for automating tasks in Office apps, for business customers for the first time.... Read more ›
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Salesforce plans to sell between $20 billion and $25 billion in bonds as soon as this week, to help fund its recently-announced $50 billion stock buyback, Bloomberg reported. The bond offering, coming as Amazon was also in the market trying to raise twice as much, shows how a flood of tech ... Read more ›
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Oracle shares rose 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the firm raised its projected revenue for the fiscal year that starts in June by about 8% to $90 billion. The disclosure, which Oracle made as part of its quarterly earnings report, may allay some concerns about the enterprise firm’s ... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Tuesday backed Anthropic’s federal court request to temporarily block the Pentagon from cutting business ties with the AI firm, arguing that the Pentagon’s action could harm Microsoft’s business and the broader tech sector. In a filing Tuesday, Microsoft told a federal judge it ... Read more ›
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Ravi Gupta, a partner at Sequoia Capital, and John Hegeman, former chief revenue officer at Meta, are raising at least $1 billion for their new venture called Ithaca Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway-style holding firm that will find acquisition targets and drive growth in part by using artificial ... Read more ›
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Is investing in consumer startups back? Well, it’s back from the dead.When we broke the news of fashion e-tailer Quince’s $10 billion valuation last week, I thought maybe I was back in 2021. It wasn’t long ago that direct-to-consumer brands like Warby Parker and Daily Harvest and more were raking in investment dollars. But following some startups’ disappointing public debuts and low-priced acquisitions, venture funding for consumer startups almost came... Read more ›
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Oracle managed to calm some frayed nerves on Wall Street on Tuesday. The cloud and software firm, which has become a focal point for investors’ anxiety about AI-related spending, reported slightly better than projected revenue for its February quarter. More importantly, for the second time in two quarters, it raised its revenue projection for next fiscal year, which starts in June. Oracle now projects revenue in fiscal 2027 to rise... Read more ›
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Growth equity firm Glade Brook says it has closed over $1 billion in new funds, nearly double the last fund. The firm invests in AI, space, defense tech, internet and fintech startups, including SpaceX, Stripe and Ramp. The new fund raise is the latest by an investor that can point to ... Read more ›
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