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Fintech startups Brex and Ramp are hurtling toward initial public offerings as soon as next year as they duke it out over customers for their corporate credit cards. In the meantime, investors are getting excited about the companies’ rapid growth rates.
Their numbers are impressive, but investors need to temper their enthusiasm. Ramp just passed $1 billion in annualized revenue and was valued at $22.5 billion in its second fundraising this summer. Brex, which is growing at more than 45% a year, just crosse
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A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved. Read more ›
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Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that's designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device's included "sensors" point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in the bathroom. According to Kohler, Dekoda is a health tracker that can monitor gut health and hydration, as well as detect the presence of blood in the toilet.... Read more ›
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Investigators recovered the OceanGate Titan sub's underwater camera nearly intact, discovering a SanDisk SD card that survived the 2023 implosion and still contained 12 images and 9 videos. TechSpot reports: Scott Manley, the science communication YouTuber, gamer, astrophysicist, and programmer, posted about the latest find: a hardened SubC-branded Rayfin Mk2 Benthic Camera containing the undamaged SD card. The titanium and synthetic sapphire crystal camera is rated to withstand depths of... Read more ›
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A massive internet outage occurred Monday morning, impacting Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, and more. Read more ›
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Just how serious of an antisemitism problem does the American right have — and what, if anything, should they do about it? For well over a year, some conservative elites have quietly worried about the trends they were seeing among influencers and young rightists who seem increasingly enamored of conspiracy theories involving Jews — the […] Read more ›
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Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is — early on, there were some legibility issues — but this new setting […] Read more ›
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With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize the look of Liquid Glass. The toggle lets users select from a clear look for Liquid Glass, or a tinted look. Clear is the current Liquid Glass design, which is more transparent and shows the background underneath buttons, bars, and menus, while tinted increases the... Read more ›
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The legacy sequel starring Jared Leto and Greta Lee could be quite costly for the studio. Read more ›
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Foreign hackers breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) by exploiting unpatched Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities. The intrusion happened in August and is possibly linked to either Chinese state actors or Russian cybercriminals. CSO Online notes that "roughly 80% of the non-nuclear parts in the nation's nuclear stockpile originate from KCNSC," making it "one of the most sensitive facilities in the federal weapons complex." From the... Read more ›
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Lew Frankfort said best value bags need to be produced overseas, even as companies have been shifting manufacturing to the US amid tariff turmoil. Read more ›
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Joseph Sanberg, cofounder of green banking startup Aspiration, has been accused of defrauding investors out of $248 million. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people’s personal AI subscription.” The company last week made moves toward that goal with “apps in ChatGPT,” which lets people use the chatbot to search for homes on Zillow or make Spotify playlists, for instance.In another example, OpenAI has pitched companies on allowing visitors to sign into their websites using their ChatGPT credentials, just... Read more ›
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If you’ve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you’ve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text that’s editable on a computer.OCR might not sound like the sexiest market. But it’s interesting enough for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prolific backers of young AI startups... Read more ›
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At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly 45,000 attendees that using artificial intelligence to automate everything from customer service to sales functions was an easy and quick process. At this year’s event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it “takes time” for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more ›
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Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products including laptops and servers outside China as early as next year, Nikkei Asia reported. The move is part of the U.S. tech giant’s ongoing effort to reduce its dependence on China’s domestic supply chain amid geopolitical tensions ... Read more ›
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An entity being used to fund Meta Platforms’ large-scale data center in Louisiana sold more than $27 billion in debt with an interest rate about 2.25 percentage points above the U.S. Treasury yield. Meta is raising the debt, maturing in 2049, for a roughly $30 billion special-purpose vehicle the ... Read more ›
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The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have each reached very different agreements to supply chips to OpenAI. The arrangements open up all three to the risk that OpenAI, which expects to burn $115 billion through 2029, can’t afford to keep its commitments. The deals pose different risks to each company’s business, but AMD faces the biggest downside... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI is aiming to build and control the world’s most powerful data center and a massive natural gas plant to power it. The scale of the project and xAI’s precarious finances are forcing the company into unusual financial arrangements that rely on outsiders to raise funding and shoulder much of the risk. XAI wants to have as much control as possible over Colossus 2, its second supersize data... Read more ›
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Walmart said Tuesday that it would soon start selling products through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout feature, marking the first major retailer to strike an e-commerce partnership with the AI firm. Shoppers will be able to buy most Walmart and Sam’s Club products directly in ChatGPT conversations, ... Read more ›
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