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Sierra, the artificial intelligence startup founded by Bret Taylor, is in talks to raise $350 million at a $10 billion valuation. The round is being led by Greenoaks Capital. This is a jump from the $4.5 billion valuation that the company raised at last year. Existing backers include Sequoia ...
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Most Americans still donāt know that alcohol can cause cancer āĀ and the alcohol industry is working hard to make sure it stays that way.Ā For the past three years, the industry, aided by its allies in Congress and later the Trump administration, has sought to discredit and eventually bury a major analysis that offers new [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S26 models may adopt key design elements from the iPhone 17 lineup, according to new dummy units shared by reliable leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson. An image posted on X by Dickson shows three mock devices that are believed to represent the Galaxy S26, S26 Edge, and S26 Ultra. The images reveal that Samsung is moving ahead with significant changes to its rear camera design, most notably... Read more āŗ
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TCLās latest smartphone entry comes with some ambitious claims. The NxtPaper 60 Ultra is built around a 7.2ā IPS LCD with FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. But as the name suggests, this is no ordinary display, it brings TCLās NxtPaper 4.0 screen technology, which offers updated blue light filtering and a new nano-matrix lithography technology for the screen etching process. TCL is also proud to claim that NxtPaper... Read more āŗ
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Norway struck a $13.5 billion deal with the UK to acquire Type 26 frigates specifically designed for anti-submarine warfare. Read more āŗ
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The Browser Company ā the maker of the Arc and AI-centric Dia browsers ā is set to have a new owner. Atlassian is buying it for around $610 million in an all-cash deal, which it expects to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026 (i.e. by the end of the 2025 calendar year). According to The Browser Company, it will continue to operate independently as it builds... Read more āŗ
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Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 17 series in just five days from now, and last-minute rumors about the devices continue to surface. The latest word comes from Taiwanese market research firm TrendForce, which outlined several alleged iPhone 17 details in a press release today:As previously rumored, the standard iPhone 17 and the all-new iPhone 17 Air will allegedly be equipped with 120Hz displays, for smoother scrolling and content.... Read more āŗ
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Air will have a $1,099 starting price providing 256GB of base storage and will max out at $1,499 with a 1TB option, according to the latest TrendForce report. The market research company expects the regular iPhone 17 model to have the same $799 starting price and 128GB base storage as last year's iPhone 16, while both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max will... Read more āŗ
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Bluettiās at IFA 2025 with the worldās first portable power station built around a sodium-ion battery, and a second, slim unit designed to mount next to the fridge to keep it running during a blackout. The Pioneer Na (get it? Na = sodium) is covered in AC and USB jacks and delivers up to 1,500W [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 source code is now available on Github, under the MIT license. Read more āŗ
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A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. Read more Read more āŗ
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We're only days away from Apple's "Awe dropping" fall event scheduled to take place on Tuesday, September 9 ā and along with the new iPhone 17 series, we're going to get a new version of the Apple Watch Ultra for the first time since 2023. By the time the Ultra 3 is unveiled, it will have been two years since the previous model arrived. The intervening period has left plenty... Read more āŗ
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The new NXTPhone 60 Ultra includes a special matte display and extra features to keep your eyes from bleeding after too much screen time. Too bad, you can't buy it in the U.S. Read more āŗ
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The image points to a more Apple-inspired look for the Edge and Qi2 charging support across the board. Read more āŗ
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Chinese companies are hungry for more computing power and are willing to pay for it. Read more āŗ
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has been invited to an event for tech leaders at the White House today in the newly renovated Rose Garden, according to The Hill. Cook is among more than two dozen technology executives invited to the White House by President Donald Trump for the first event to be held on the redesigned Rose Garden patio. The dinner will follow a separate White House presentation on artificial... Read more āŗ
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I've been to more than 20 countries, but one lively city in Mexico stands out for its pristine beaches, great food, and bustling downtown scene. Read more āŗ
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The Seagate IronWolf Pro is a massive drive with a good warranty at an okay price. Read more āŗ
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LinkedIn will now require some users to verify their identity before they change job titles in an attempt to cut down on scams on the platform. The new identity verification rules will specifically apply to executives and recruiters who interact with job seekers or represent a company in one form or another. As part of these changes, LinkedIn says users who add or update their title to anything recruiter-related (recruiter,... Read more āŗ
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The leaders of China and Russia were caught talking about organ transplants and reaching 150 years old on a hot mic during a military parade. Read more āŗ
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Google is one of the largest buyers of Nvidiaās artificial intelligence chips, which it rents out to Google Cloud customers such as OpenAI and Meta Platforms. But Googleās grand ambitions for its own competing AI chips show no sign of slowing down. In the latest example, Google recently approached small cloud providers that primarily rent out Nvidia chips about also hosting Googleās AI chips in their data centers, according to... Read more āŗ
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KKR is bringing on former Amazon Web Services boss Adam Selipsky as a strategic advisor to bolster the private equity firmās big bets on data centers and the technical infrastructure powering artificial intelligence. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation and governance for KKRās ... Read more āŗ
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:ā¢ The Big Read: Finally! An explanation of what the Musk-Altman legal feud really meansā¢ The Arena: Can the metaverse and TikTok help tennis connect with young fans?ā¢ Plus, our Recommendations: āThe Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze,ā āAnointedā and āAlien: Earthā Generally speaking, humans communicate with each other through words. As for artificial intelligence, weāre still figuring out exactly how it can communicate, andāwell, itās... 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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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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U.S. tech merger activity is headed for its best year since 2021ādriven in part by enterprise software and other older tech companies acquiring artificial intelligence startups to beef up their AI offerings. So far this year, U.S. software companies have spent nearly $33.8 billion on 140 completed AI acquisitions, surpassing the combined volume of the past three years, according to data provider PitchBook. During the same period, U.S. companies have... 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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