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Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions.
The new funding could nearly triple Vercelās private valuation from a financing in May last year and follows a recent growth spurt at the San Francisco startup, which competes with cloud provide
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Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 series on Tuesday, September 9, and last-minute rumors about the devices continue to surface. The latest info comes from a leaker known as Majin Bu, who has shared alleged images of Apple's Clear Case for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, or at least replicas. Image Credit: @MajinBuOfficial The images show three alleged changes compared to Apple's iPhone 16 Pro Clear... Read more āŗ
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Graphic designer Lisa Carstens "spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos," reports NBC News: Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts, produce a graphic or code an app with a few... Read more āŗ
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In his first term, President Donald Trump touted the āmedical miracleā of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine that he helped deliver to market through the unprecedented public-private partnership known as Operation Warp Speed. In its second term, the Trump administration is dismantling the signature health achievement of his first term by sowing doubt about the safety [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Another hint has surfaced that Apple is preparing to eliminate the physical SIM card tray from iPhones in more countries this year. In particular, a source familiar with the matter has informed MacRumors that retail employees at Apple Authorized Resellers in the EU are required to complete a training course related to iPhones with eSIM support by Friday, September 5. There are 27 countries in the EU, such as France,... Read more āŗ
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"I'm still teaching at Princeton," 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, "showing that his talk ended with a unique question-and-answer session that turned almost historic..." "Do you think there's any sort of merit to Rust replacing C?" one audience member asked... "Or is this just a huge... Read more āŗ
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1535 on September 1 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more āŗ
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Apple today added three Macs to the obsolete products list on its website, including the final model of the MacBook Air with a smaller 11-inch display. The three Macs that are now obsolete:MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, 4 Thunderbolt 3 Ports) MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)A device becomes "obsolete" once more than seven years have passed since Apple stopped distributing it for sale. Apple Stores and Apple... Read more āŗ
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Gabrielle Anwar was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after becoming a mom at 23. She's making up to her daughter by being present for her granddaughter. Read more āŗ
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Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isnāt expanding as quickly as it had hoped. In the first half of this year, the ticketing app fell short of revenue and profit projections it shared with lenders earlier this year, in part due to new U.S. ticket pricing rules. The shortfall highlights the volatile nature of the ticketing industry, which is heavily dependent on the flow... Read more āŗ
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DeepSeek, one of Chinaās leading artificial intelligence developers, has decided to use Huawei Technologiesā AI chips to train some of its AI models, a sign it is reducing its reliance on Nvidia chips, according to three people with knowledge of the effort. The move follows pressure by the Chinese government on local tech companies to use locally made chips more. DeepSeek continues to use Nvidia chips for its largest and... Read more āŗ
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Nvidia on Wednesday posted solid revenue growth from the sale of artificial intelligence chips and networking equipment, including its flagship Blackwell chips, despite recent restrictions on its sale of its chips to China. Revenue rose 56% to $46.7 billion in the quarter that ended in July ... Read more āŗ
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Elon Muskās xAI sued a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets when the engineer left to join OpenAI. The lawsuit accuses former xAI engineer Xuechen Li of downloading information about ācutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPTā days before he ... Read more āŗ
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information, is considering multiple investment offers valuing the three-year-old startup at $6 billion, nearly double its private valuation from a financing just one month ago, according to three people involved in the potential deal. The funding conversations are still in their early stages. If a deal happens, the company is likely to raise more than $100 million, one of... Read more āŗ
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When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or analyze their customer and sales information. Since then, though, AI providers such as Amazon Web Services, Anthropic and OpenAI have baked such technology into... Read more āŗ
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Much is known about the pastimes of the worldās wealthiest person, Elon Musk. They include playing videogames, fathering children and reading Douglas Adams novels. Over the past couple of years, Musk has picked up another hobby: waging war against Sam Altman, an ex-friend with whom he co-founded OpenAI a decade ago as a nonprofit. And Muskās case in one critical lawsuit may not be as frivolous as it might appear... Read more āŗ
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Cybersecurity executives have long bemoaned how hard it is to hire staff, citing a dearth of talent with the necessary experience to fill roles that are notoriously high-pressure and can burn people out.Ā But recently, some of those executives have found a solution: Instead of hiring new security professionals, theyāre turning to AI to help them fill the open roles or cut back on existing staff. Read more āŗ
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Where does Snap go from here? The nearly fourteen-year-old company is struggling to grow its ad business, particularly compared to larger Meta Platforms and Googleās YouTube. At the same time, CEO Evan Spiegel remains laser focused on his long-time, big bet: the companyās augmented reality glasses, Spectacles. To keep funding the AR project, Snapchat parent has begun to discuss ways to raise outside money and even has considered spinning it... Read more āŗ
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