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Elon Musk has been paying closer attention to his artificial intelligence company, xAI, over the past few months, pushing staff to move as quickly as possible to catch up with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The xAI CEO’s increased involvement has led to frequent reorganizations, demotions and firings on the teams building the company’s AI models and products.
At the same time, xAI has been integrating the social media site X, which it acquired in an all-stock transaction in March. Since X CEO Linda Yacc
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Apple is looking into ways to better support apps that include AI agents and AI coding capabilities in the App Store, reports The Information. Apple is designing a system that would maintain its security and privacy standards while allowing for AI app features, but details on how the system will work are unavailable. Apple started blocking updates for some popular vibe coding apps in March because those apps violated App... Read more ›
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The soundbar just dropped to at an all-time low price on Amazon, featuring immersive 3D sound and much more. Read more ›
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A new report claims iOS 27 will see big changes to Apple’s iPhone apps, including Liquid Glass adjustments. Read more ›
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'It's a long-term commitment for fundamentals and quality': Microsoft is working to make Windows 11 faster in multiple ways, including in-depth honing of the interface. Read more ›
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A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar contains evidence of a cavity removal procedure, offering fresh insight into these early humans' intelligence. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its headcount as it reorganizes teams and focuses personnel on areas where its business is growing [...]. LinkedIn employs more than 17,500 full-time workers globally, its... Read more ›
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Auto giant Maruti Suzuki has selected six Indian startups for the tenth cohort of its flagship Accelerator Programme. The startups… Read more ›
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Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls "Instants," which are ephemeral photos that you can't edit and that you can only share with your close friends or followers that follow you back. Instants are available globally beginning on Wednesday as a feature in the […] Read more ›
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The Google Fitbit Air was announced last week and immediately went up for pre-order with a ship date at around May 26. It costs either $99 or $129 depending on which version you want, is a screen-less health and fitness tracker that competes with WHOOP, and is helping launch the new Google Health app and... Read the original post: Here’s a First Look at the New Google Fitbit Air Read more ›
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Abortion pills have been on a bit of a journey in the United States over the past few weeks. It starts in Louisiana: The state sued the Food and Drug Administration late last year, seeking to eliminate access to the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth and mail order. On May 1, the US Fifth Circuit […] Read more ›
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The US military wants cheaper missiles it can buy by the thousands, aiming to avoid running short in a major conflict. Read more ›
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Modal, a startup that rents out Nvidia graphics processing units and software to help developers run and train models as well as agents, is in talks to raise money at around a $4.5 billion valuation. That would be an 80% premium to its last valuation from just a few months ago, according to two people with knowledge of the round. The steep hike in valuation follows a jump in its... Read more ›
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The Sony Xperia 1 VIII was announced bright and early in the morning and – in typical Sony fashion – the new model won’t actually ship until mid-June. That’s later than the Mark 7 and the Mark 6, which were announced in mid-May and released in early June. But if you have your heart set on it, you can pre-order one today. The Xperia 1 VIII is available on Amazon... Read more ›
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Meta has cooked up a Snapchat-like replacement app for Instagram users. Located inside of the Instagram app (as well as a standalone app), the new Instants feature is dedicated to sharing photos with close friends that disappear after viewing or are automatically removed after 24 hours if not viewed. Instants cannot be edited before posting,... Read the original post: Instagram Instants, Meta’s Snapchat Replacement Read more ›
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China first revealed its plans to build a stealth bomber in 2016, but the aircraft has yet to surface as of 2026. Here's what we know about the H-20 bomber. Read more ›
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Fans noticed that a shot in the new Marvel Studios special looks off. Here's what happened. Read more ›
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Last month, it said it would use employees' mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models. Read more ›
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After years of mostly tumbleweeds, the initial public offering market is about to enter one of its most exciting and potentially volatile eras. SpaceX—with a valuation expected to exceed $1 trillion—is widely anticipated to go public as soon as June, with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI potentially not far behind. As a historic wave of supply hits the market, the mechanics that underpin public trading are about to be pressure-tested.... Read more ›
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DoorDash reported 33% growth in revenue, to $4 billion, a slowdown from the fourth quarter but still several percentage points higher than the growth rate the food-delivery firm had reported for most of last year. The strong growth reflected the acquisition in October of the European ... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s revenues fell 3% in the first quarter, the entertainment firm reported Wednesday, highlighting the challenges facing the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance, which plans to buy WBD later this year. WBD’s streaming operations, including HBO Max, reported 7% higher ... Read more ›
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Nvidia is partnering with Corning, which manufactures glass used in smartphones as well as optical fiber and hardware components for data centers, to build three new factories in North Carolina and Texas focused on optical technologies. As part of the arrangement, Corning has issued Nvidia ... Read more ›
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Snap’s revenue growth accelerated to 12% in the first quarter, lifted by strong growth in the social media firm’s small subscriptions business. Advertising, which contributes the bulk of Snap’s revenue, grew just 3%, a slower rate than the previous quarter. The anemic growth in advertising ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk once offered Sam Altman a seat on Tesla’s board of directors as part of discussions about OpenAI possibly joining Musk’s electric vehicle company, a Musk ally testified on Wednesday. Shivon Zilis, who has worked for several of Musk’s ventures and has four children with the tech tycoon, ... Read more ›
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Is xAI the next CoreWeave? SpaceX’s announcement on Wednesday that its xAI unit had struck a deal to supply computing capacity to Anthropic comes a couple of weeks after xAI struck a similar deal with AI coding startup Cursor. Last we checked, AI firms with leading models need all the computing capacity they can get, which means they’re constantly looking for capacity from others. Renting out their own capacity is... Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Wednesday that an 80-fold jump in revenue and customers’ AI use in the first quarter took the company by surprise. “We tried to plan very well for a world of 10x growth per year,” he said on stage during the company’s Code With Claude developer conference in San ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s lawyers are close to resting their case against OpenAI, but his path to winning a blockbuster legal victory looks steeper than when the trial began, according to lawyers following the case. The Musk team is expected to wrap up its presentation by Monday, after nearly two weeks trying to prove his claim that OpenAI’s other co-founders “stole a charity.” The testimony so far has followed a pattern, with... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s servers are generally bursting at the seams, while xAI’s mountain of servers aren’t as busy, as we and others recently reported. That’s burning a multibillion-dollar hole in the pocket of new xAI owner SpaceX, which is trying to go public soon and is sure to receive tremendous scrutiny over its AI-related losses.So after xAI recently struck a deal to offload server capacity to AI coding assistant Cursor,... Read more ›
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