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A new artificial intelligence hardware startup founded by Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported Friday. The round would rank as one of the most highly valued for a months’ old startup with no product or revenue. Investors have been particularly ...
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The Windows 10 end-of-support deadline is driving the largest coordinated PC replacement cycle in years across the industry, and Apple is emerging as one of the main beneficiaries as Mac shipments accelerate. Counterpoint Research this week reported that nearly 40% of the global installed PC base was still running Windows 10 ahead of the October 2025 cutoff, triggering early fleet renewals across both commercial and consumer channels. This pressure lifted... Read more ›
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2021 saw five times as many unruly passengers as the year before, and incidents have remained high. International rules classify them into four levels. Read more ›
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When I decided to homeschool my daughter, everyone said I shouldn't. I even doubted myself, but it's been the right choice for my kid. Read more ›
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The long-standing assumption that low-flying jets would not be detected is now "obsolete," Air Vice-Marshal James Beck said. Read more ›
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It's not an awful browser, but there are better options if you can't skirt its shortcomings. Read more ›
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The chip which paved the way for AMD’s illustrious future in the CPU business entered mass production 50 years ago. Read more ›
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Counter-Strike 2 received an update yesterday that prompted the worst market crash in the game's history. Cosmetics worth over $6 billion fell to almost $3 billion after Valve made it easier to acquire them. Less scarcity means lower barrier of entry, but it also means less desirability for traders who'd invested everything into the game. Read more ›
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Google may be working on a feature that will let tablet users put any Android app in a floating bubble. Read more ›
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When people sign up for a dating site like Tinder, they don't expect their profiles and personal information to be searchable - especially by a scorned lover, or worse. But that's what popular apps like Cheaterbuster or CheatEye seem to be doing under the guise of being able to "catch cheaters." Last week, 404 Media […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said a friend of his, who he did not name, gave a $130 million gift to the Pentagon during the government shutdown. Read more ›
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview located outside of Chicago has become a focal point for protesters who want to resist the agency. A viral photo of an ICE agent at the site pepper spraying a pastor in the face has come to exemplify the aggressive and violent tactics federal officers are […] Read more ›
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During a recent all-hands meeting, Waymo's chief winter weather expert laid it out for all the company's engineers and product managers: if Waymo wants to expand to new cities and new markets, it's robotaxis will need to be able to confidently and safely handle the snow. In its first few years of operation, Waymo has […] Read more ›
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Adobe in recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, to buy the startup for about $3 billion, a premium from the startup’s $2.1 billion valuation in a January financing, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Synthesia and Adobe walked away without reaching a deal after disagreeing about the price, this person and two others said.... Read more ›
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Over the last few days our reporters have broken news about two merger discussions that fizzled: Adobe, which was interested in buying video startup Synthesia, and SoftBank, which talked with humanoid robotics maker Agility about a takeover. In both cases, the startups ended up pursuing more venture capital funding at higher valuations.These are just the latest instances of aborted acquisition talks involving artificial intelligence startups that we’ve broken over the... Read more ›
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Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, on Friday threw cold water on the idea that artificial general intelligence is around the corner. He also cast doubt on various assumptions about AI made by the industry’s biggest boosters, such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.The highly regarded Karpathy called reinforcement learning—arguably the most important area of research right now—“terrible,” said AI-powered coding agents aren’t as exciting... Read more ›
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This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many others at OpenAI shared the same background: They’d previously worked at Meta Platforms. And then Simo, who’d risen to be head of Facebook over a decade at Meta, offered reassurance—she wasn’t interested in redoing her tenure at Meta... Read more ›
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Amazon launched a new artificial intelligence-powered product recommendation feature Thursday, the e-commerce giant’s latest move to incorporate more AI features into both its consumer-facing shopping experience as well as the systems that power its search and recommendation features. The new ... Read more ›
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Peter Hoeschele, who runs OpenAI’s Stargate data center team, said at an event last week that the company’s models are essentially in constant training mode. That’s a change from the past, when OpenAI would stop training them when they reached a certain point. “Let’s stop talking about training versus inference,” Hoeschele said after Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk asked him how OpenAI allocates computing resources between training the models and running... Read more ›
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When a crypto crash ricocheted across markets earlier this month, the spotlight landed on Hyperliquid, an exchange that handles more than $13 billion in trades a day with around 11 employees based largely in Singapore. The two-year-old exchange is little known outside crypto markets but wildly popular among traders for offering anonymity, high leverage and giving away a token that has soared in value. Hyperliquid has no outside investors and... Read more ›
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Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based developer of artificial intelligence, is in talks with U.S. and Japanese investors to raise $100 million at a valuation of $2.5 billion, up 66% from a financing a year ago, according to two people involved in the discussions. The funding talks come months after CEO David Ha said publicly that the company would operate profitably within a year. Sakana is developing AI with a different type... Read more ›
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Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm’s newest general partner, the early-stage firm announced Monday. At Kleiner, Randle worked on investments including enterprise search startup Glean and legal AI ... Read more ›
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A few years ago, Elon Musk pitched Apple unsuccessfully on the idea of his company, SpaceX, providing satellite connectivity to iPhones. There are tantalizing hints that such a deal could be back on the table. In recent months, in anticipation of a possible future arrangement with Apple, SpaceX has added support in its new satellite designs for the same radio spectrum Apple uses for the iPhone’s current satellite features, which... Read more ›
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