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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 Vercelâs 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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Google's VP of product, Robby Stein, says teams risk killing breakthrough ideas by staying too small for too long. Read more âș
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At night, Kate Hudson says she likes to unwind with a book â but sometimes gets sidetracked browsing auction sites. Read more âș
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Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. Read more âș
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After releasing AirPods Pro 3 last month, Apple is already working on the next AirPods Pro, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. It is unclear if the new AirPods Pro would be branded as AirPods Pro 4, or if they would be considered an updated version of AirPods Pro 3. Gurman did not take a position, opting to describe them as a "new version" of the "high-end in-ear buds." AirPods Pro... Read more âș
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Supershear earthquakes, moving faster than seismic waves, could cause catastrophic shaking across California. USC researchers warn that many faults capable of magnitude 7 quakes might produce these explosive ruptures. Current construction standards donât account for their directional force. Stronger monitoring and building codes are urgently needed. Read more âș
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Arkham data shows bitcoin miner Marathon bought 150 BTC through its custodian Anchorage Digital as prices plunged, with fresh FalconX inflows hinting at continued institutional accumulation. Read more âș
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It's the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. But "Ukraine's foreign minister accused Russia on Sunday of deliberately severing the external power line to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station," reports Reuters, "in order to link the plant to Moscow's power grid." Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was attempting to test a reconnection to Russia's grid. Ukraine has long feared that Moscow would try to redirect the plant's... Read more âș
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Apple plans to announce new products "this week," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple's "Mac Your Calendars" teaser last October In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the products set to be updated this week include the iPad Pro, Vision Pro, and "likely" the base 14-inch MacBook Pro, with all three likely to receive a spec bump with Apple's next-generation M5 chip. Gurman does not expect Apple to hold... Read more âș
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Varun Agarwal, 25, says he's able to get more dealmaking experience at his new company, OffDeal, than at JPMorgan. Read more âș
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Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out specialized cloud servers to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers over the next five fiscal years. But internal documents show the fast-growing cloud business has had razor-thin gross profit margins in the past year or so, lower than what many... Read more âș
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When ecommerce consultant David Khandrius had to help a client who sold baby strollers write a product listing for Amazonâs website in the past, he typically tried to jam as many words into the listing as possible to ensure Amazonâs search algorithm would capture it. That might result in a convoluted title for a listing, like âtravel stroller for beach park super compact airplane overhead.â Nowadays, though, he said, the... Read more âș
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Iâm not sure what everyone elseâs social media feeds are looking like these days, but over the past 72 hours mine has become unrecognizable to me. On TikTok, Iâve been inundated with short clips of slap-boxing competitions between Fred Rogers and Kurt Cobain, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and Elvis Presley and Bob Marley. Iâve watched indie rocker Elliott Smith dunking a basketball in a Portland Trail Blazers uniform while... Read more âș
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Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but theyâve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from competitors like Anthropic and Google.OpenAI on Monday announced Agent Builder, a set of tools for configuring agents to resolve IT support tickets or... Read more âș
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OpenAI told Europeâs top antitrust regulator that big tech firms including Microsoft, Google, and Apple could be difficult for the startup to compete against, Bloomberg reported Thursday. During a Sept. 24 meeting with EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribaldi, OpenAI said it faced âdifficultiesâ ... Read more âș
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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said Tuesday that the cloud provider will not change its $9 billion bid for Core Scientific ahead of a shareholder vote scheduled for October 30. Two Seas Capital said last month it would vote against the deal and urged other shareholders to do so. The hedge fund, ... Read more âș
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Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track whoâs making changes to a codebase, and sandboxes where code can be safely run and tested without affecting the main system.Now, a startup is building such tools for artificial intelligence agents that aim to do the work of human coders. Andreessen Horowitz, which has been among the most prolific backers of young AI startups in the... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working. New data show OpenAIâs Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropicâs Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude Codeâs.Developers approved 74.3% of code written by Codex, slightly higher than Claude Codeâs 73.7% success rate in terms of approving code pull requests, according to data... Read more âș
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Peter Thielâs Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets, embracing a concentrated strategy as rivals spread their bets across a wide swath of startups. Among them are OpenAI, data center builder Crusoe and General Matter, a nuclear fuel startup the firm has incubated, Founders Fund said at its recent annual general meeting for investors. In contrast, other venture firms have poured money across the AI landscape,... Read more âș
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who was once seen as a leading voice for liberal politics in the Bay Area, voiced strong support for President Donald Trump in a new interview with the New York Times and advocated for Trump to send National Guard troops to San Francisco. âWe donât have enough cops, ... Read more âș
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