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Supabase, a database startup that has benefited from the rise of artificial intelligence-powered coding assistants, is in talks with investors about offers that could raise its valuation to at least $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
The investment, if finalized, would more than double its valuation from April, when investors led by Accel valued the five-year-old startup at $2 billion including the investment.
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When my son was in a baseball slump I didn't brush off his misses. Instead, I told him he hadn't been putting in the work he needed to be good. Read more ›
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From data-removal services to threat monitoring, the Public Service Alliance says its new marketplace will help public servants defend themselves in an era of data brokers and political violence. Read more ›
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Future-of-work expert Annie Dean has a new job at real-estate giant CBRE. She imagines offices feeling "a little bit more like hotels." Read more ›
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Apple’s annual iPhone event kicks off later today, and we may finally see the iPhone Air. That would appear alongside the usual iPhone refresh, with an array of iPhone 17 devices. We’re expecting four models again: iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Some reports suggest bigger batteries will appear across the series. Still, the rumored iPhone Air will be the technical star, expected to... Read more ›
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Stephen King has posted a list of his "10 favorite movies" on X. Here's where you can watch them. Read more ›
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A renowned CS2 esports player claims the game only runs well on AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Read more ›
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China's military parade last week had plenty of drones and counter-drone systems on display, but it also clearly sees that there's more to war. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel has responded to the birthday letter Donald Trump allegedly gave to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. Read more ›
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The pool, rooftop restaurant, and service were the best parts of my stay at the adults-only hotel Manon les Suites in Copenhagen. Read more ›
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Apple's online storefront has gone down ahead of the "Awe dropping" Apple event taking place later today, where several new products are expected to be announced. Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, and iPhone 17 Pro models, as well as Apple Watch SE 3, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and AirPods Pro 3. The company should also announce the release dates of... Read more ›
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The NFL's "Brazil Game" was the first game to be broadcast exclusively on YouTube, and it drew a massive audience. Anthropic is settling a class action lawsuit over copyright, but not everyone agrees it's a setback for AI companies. Amazon is cracking down on free Prime shipping for invited guests outside your immediate household. Read more ›
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The Twitch streamer could pivot from influencer to candidate. But he tells WIRED’s Big Interview podcast he’d rather use his platform to tell Dems “you can’t podcast your way out of this problem.” Read more ›
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Indoor air can be five times more polluted than outdoor air. I asked two experts about common causes of poor air quality in the home. Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Asperitas, a provider of thermal management solutions, has raised undisclosed funding led by STECON GROUP with participation from Shell Ventures, PDENH, and Invest-NL. STECON GROUP is one of Thailand’s largest construction companies, with over 60 years of experience in building large infrastructure projects such as mass transit systems, highways, petrochemical plants, power plants, renewable ... Read more Read more ›
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Team Cherry has revealed details of Hollow Knight: Silksong's first patch, which will make the early game a little easier. Read more Read more ›
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Stephen Colbert has reacted to the very creepy drawing Trump allegedly gave to Epstein for his birthday. Read more ›
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TikTok's deadline to find a buyer for its US operations is next week. Read more ›
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vivo continues to tease the upcoming X300 series, this time revealing key design details of the flagship models. According to vivo Product Manager Han Boxiao, the vivo X300 series will be slimmer and lighter than its predecessors. It will also feature a compact body despite offering improved camera hardware. In an image shared alongside the Weibo post, we can see that the camera bump has a tapered edge instead of... Read more ›
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Google is one of the largest buyers of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips, which it rents out to Google Cloud customers such as OpenAI and Meta Platforms. But Google’s 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 Google’s AI chips in their data centers, according to... Read more ›
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KKR is bringing on former Amazon Web Services boss Adam Selipsky as a strategic advisor to bolster the private equity firm’s big bets on data centers and the technical infrastructure powering artificial intelligence. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation and governance for KKR’s ... Read more ›
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A small cloud provider for artificial intelligence that’s preparing to go public has secured a major boost from its most important supplier: Nvidia. The chip giant agreed this summer to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from the cloud firm, Lambda, for $1.3 billion over four years, and a separate $200 million deal to rent 8,000 more Nvidia chips over an unspecified time frame, according to a person with... Read more ›
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Joint ventures. Backstop agreements. Syndicated debt offerings. The richest tech companies and their bankers are developing increasingly complicated financial strategies to meet the soaring demands of funding artificial intelligence. The goal for companies like Google and Meta Platforms is to stay ahead in the AI race while offloading some of the costs and risks of the buildout. Meta is raising $29 billion for a joint venture to build a data... Read more ›
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Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML has invested $1.5 billion in French artificial intelligence developer Mistral, valuing it at $11.7 billion, up from a $6 billion valuation last year, Reuters reported. ASML will be the startup’s biggest outside shareholder and will take a board seat, the ... Read more ›
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The NFL, the world’s richest and most powerful sports league, would like you to know something: It is not thrilled with the way Nielsen measures its TV audience. Earlier this week, the NFL took the extraordinary step of criticizing media measurement firm Nielsen, which the football giant argued is undercounting the number of viewers for its games by millions of people. While plenty of television broadcasters have groused about Nielsen... Read more ›
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Nasdaq is stepping up its scrutiny of companies listed on its exchange that are aiming to get a stock price boost by raising money to buy and hoard crypto, according to company filings and people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s move could slow the crypto boom that is putting increasingly exotic tokens on mainstream markets. The stock exchange, where the vast majority of crypto stocks are trading, is requiring... Read more ›
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U.S. tech merger activity is headed for its best year since 2021—driven 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 ›
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Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia graphics chips for artificial intelligence, has hired investment banks to prepare for an initial public offering in the U.S., according to people with direct knowledge of the talks. The San Jose, Calif.-based startup has hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Citi to prepare for a listing as soon as the first half of next year, the people said. The 13-year-old company is... Read more ›
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OpenAI could spend $10 billion next year on the artificial intelligence chip it is co-designing with Broadcom, according to a report in The Financial Times. The report indicated that mass production of OpenAI’s chip would begin next year. During Broadcom’s earnings call on ... Read more ›
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