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MGX, the United Arab Emirates-backed fund, will join Silver Lake in purchasing a 51% stake in Altera, a programmable chip business spinning out of Intel, the fund said Tuesday. Altera is MGX’s first investment in a chip business since the UAE started the fund last year with about $100 ...
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Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn't allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally seemed to bow to pressure, sending out an email from the company's equity team stating that current and former employees with eligible shares will be […] Read more ›
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The designer who introduced the iPhone Air at Apple's September event left the company, reports Bloomberg. Abidur Chowdhury recently departed Apple to join an AI startup, a move that apparently "made waves" internally because he was a rising star on the design team. Chowdhury worked on the iPhone Air, and he described its feature set in a two-minute presentation in September. His departure was not related to the iPhone Air... Read more ›
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Apple provided developers with the third beta of an upcoming iOS 26.2 update, and there are still new features that are being added with each beta that we get. We've rounded up all of the changes that Apple made in beta 3. AirDrop Apple added new AirDrop functionality, providing a way for two people to share files temporarily without having to add one another as contacts. iOS 26.2 includes an... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network... Read more ›
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The pre-installed service is used to recommend third-party apps for users to download. Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the company co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5 billion in the startup’s next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more ›
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A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it's the first to do so—but it had some help. Read more ›
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'The Legend of Zelda' movie recently went into production, and Nintendo casually revealed the first live-action Zelda and Link. Read more ›
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His latest startup, Mill, sells a high-tech trash can that turns food scraps into sweet-smelling powder. Read more ›
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Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist. Starbuck’s claims against Google came after he filed a similar lawsuit against Meta, whose AI he claimed falsely asserted that he’d participated in the […] Read more ›
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Funding is going to construction-related projects at Air Force bases expected to house the B-21, as well as infrastructure for Sentinel. Read more ›
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John Santa Orta sold his home and moved into a build-to-rent townhouse. He feels like he owns a house, but without much of the responsibilities. Read more ›
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NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech, NetChoice alleges that Virginia's incoming law (SB 854) will require platforms to verify user ages in ways... Read more ›
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A dietitian shared how the 80/20 rule helps her eat enough protein and fiber with plenty of room for dessert. Read more ›
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Study identified several trace chemical signatures of opium in ancient Egyptian alabaster vase. Read more ›
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Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubin’s startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more ›
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Apple’s succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely won’t happen until after late January when ... Read more ›
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Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The redesign could include a second camera lens, an attempt to address one of consumers’ main ... Read more ›
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Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharp slump at most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disney’s entertainment ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is trying to turn public opinion against The New York Times in their legal battle. As part of the Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the ChatGPT creator, the Times has asked for access to 20 million conversations between users and ChatGPT, a request OpenAI said Wednesday was “ ... Read more ›
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Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest private lenders, is ramping up its big bet on artificial intelligence with a roughly $3 billion investment in a New Mexico data center that’s part of OpenAI’s Stargate project, said a person with knowledge of the deal. Blue Owl, which has nearly $300 billion in assets, has emerged as a crucial investor in AI infrastructure, taking on the riskiest slices of big... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Grindr’s boardroom feud • Plus, our Recommendations: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “A Biography of a Mountain” and “Materialists”A bit of housekeeping: The Information’s Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat we’re calling “tech wealth and culture.” This person will cover how Silicon Valley’s moguls live large—their pursuits, their pastimes—and how they spend their money. Here’s a... Read more ›
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TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more ›
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Investors are rushing to back a new generation of research-focused AI startups. In just over a month, they’ve made or discussed $2.5 billion of investments into five of these startups, called neolabs, despite the high costs and risk of failure. The neolab startups’ founders say they hope to exploit new approaches to developing AI models and research they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic may have overlooked. Read more ›
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Anthropic plans to invest $50 billion building its own data centers, the first time it has done so, in Texas and New York, the AI startup announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Anthropic said it would partner with London-based cloud startup Fluidstack on the data centers. Anthropic said that the ... Read more ›
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