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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets, embracing a concentrated strategy as rivals spread their bets across a wide swath of startups.
Among them are OpenAI, data center builder Crusoe and General Matter, a nuclear fuel startup the firm has incubated, Founders Fund said at its recent annual general meeting for investors. In contrast, other venture firms have poured money across the AI landscape, often backing multiple companies competing in the same markets
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Apple is entering its most significant leadership transition in more than a decade as multiple senior executives prepare to depart and CEO Tim Cook begins to shape the company's next generation of leaders, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that Williams, who was viewed as Cook's potential successor for several years, has already handed off his operations responsibilities and will... Read more ›
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A long-time requested feature for YouTube Music is the ability to translate song lyrics from within the app. Why this feature isn’t already available, we have no idea, but signs are pointing to it finally becoming a reality. Shown to be in very early testing for a small number of users, under the lyrics tab … Continued Read the original post: YouTube Music Could Soon Let You Translate Song Lyrics Read more ›
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Denmark said Russia has been escalating its hybrid attacks, and that Russian warships had sailed on collision courses with its ships in key waters. Read more ›
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Many of our readers are frustrated with Tensor, and many feel Google is serving budget performance at flagship prices. Read more ›
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Last week, Donald Trump gave formal approval to a group of US investors, including Larry Ellison, to purchase TikTok. Read more ›
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You'll have to do a lot worse than just embarrass Gemini to get these bug bounties. Read more ›
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Spam calls have become such a nuisance that many people simply don't answer their phone unless they recognize the number. In iOS 26, though, you can learn about who's calling before you respond, thanks to a clever new feature that intercepts unknown calls and asks the caller to identify themselves before your iPhone even rings. The new "Ask Reason for Calling" feature is kind of like having your own receptionist.... Read more ›
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Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K is often overlooked when it comes to a flagship CPU purchase because of its poor value proposition, but you can now get it for much cheaper than its closest competition, the Ryzen 9 9950X. This 24-core CPU performs neck-in-neck across the board, while consuming less power in idle states. Read more ›
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On the latest episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told guest host Joanna Stern why the EV maker continues to pass on Apple's CarPlay — both the standard version and the more advanced CarPlay Ultra. Echoing his previous comments on the matter, Scaringe said Rivian is focused on offering a "seamless digital experience," where customers do not need to switch between its own software and CarPlay.... Read more ›
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After ditching bundled charging bricks, manufacturers might drop USB cables next. Read more ›
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The Panther Lake lineup of mobile CPUs is reportedly set to debut Intel's Xe3 graphics IP, with the top-end SKUs featuring up to 12 Xe3 GPU cores, being dubbed "Core Ultra X," according to the latest leaks. Initially, only Core Ultra 7 and 9 were thought to feature the "X" branding, but Core Ultra 5, with its 10 Xe3 cores, is also rumored to be part of this exclusive club... Read more ›
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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. Read the memo she sent to staff about 10 core journalistic values. Read more ›
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Amazon this week has Apple's AirTag 4-Pack for $64.99, down from $99.00. This is a match of the all-time low price on the accessory, and it's one of the all-around best discounts we've seen ahead of Prime Big Deal Days. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.... Read more ›
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Right-wing fitness content has dominated the manosphere for years. Leftist gym influencers have taken notice—with some even being paid thousands of dollars to counter it. Read more ›
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Instead of spending all your time in Budapest, I recommend visiting five smaller, charming Hungarian towns instead, like Szentendre and Tihany. Read more ›
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I'm sharing all of the best early deals from the second Amazon Prime Day sale of the year right here. Read more ›
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More than two years after the release of Assassin's Creed Mirage, the 13th major installment in the franchise gets a substantial content update for free. The story expansion, called Valley of Memory, is set to release on November 18 and adds six hours of additional gameplay. According to Ubisoft, the DLC follows the protagonist, Basim, into ninth-century AlUla as he tries to find his long-lost father. Along with the new... Read more ›
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A Zaxxon remake, coded in x86-64 Assembly language, is now available as a UEFI application. Read more ›
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There’s a “paradox” at work in global health, as the philanthropist Bill Gates wrote last week. Even as funding for global health is declining, the science that supports those efforts is accelerating. And nowhere is that divergence more apparent than in the most important tool in public health: vaccines. Earlier this week Gavi, the Vaccine […] Read more ›
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Apple recently announced it will share earnings results for the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year on Thursday, October 30. Apple's earnings reports are typically released at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, after the stock market has closed in New York. Apple's CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh should discuss the results on a live-streamed conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time that day. While the call is primarily... Read more ›
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ChatGPT remains by far the most widely used chatbot among people responding to The Information Pro’s latest subscriber survey, but it lost ground over the past seven months. So did most other chatbots, possibly a sign that our readers are experimenting with fewer chatbots and have decided on those they want to primarily use. Overall, the use of artificial intelligence services has become even more widespread among our readers since... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to acquire the chip startup Rivos, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in July said his company would spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” on expanding its computing capacity to enable its ambitions in artificial ... Read more ›
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A group of Tesla shareholders is urging investors to vote against CEO Elon Musk’s proposed pay package, which could be worth up to $1 trillion, at the electric automaker’s annual meeting next month, according to a letter included in a regulatory filing. The shareholders, which include officials ... Read more ›
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For years, Chinese billionaire He Xiaopeng has been pegged as an Elon Musk wannabe, and his electric vehicle company, XPeng, as a mere Tesla copycat. And until recently the company seemed laggardly, raising questions about whether it would survive. All of that is changing quickly. In other words, XPeng has moved up a stair from the realm of mere novelty to unignorable player with intimidating products and shrewd commercial instincts.... Read more ›
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After AI coding apps like Cursor and Replit popularized “vibe coding,” Microsoft wants to make “vibe working” happen.Microsoft on Monday unveiled Office Agent, which lets people create complex PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets based on simple written prompts in the Copilot chatbot. Read more ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 53 on Monday, a law that will require the largest AI companies to abide by their own safety and cybersecurity policies. One company that should take heed of the new law is Elon Musk's xAI.The ink had barely dried on xAI’s safety policy, which it published in August, when the company released its model Grok Code Fast 1 and violated the policy’s terms, according... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that a joint venture will oversee TikTok’s U.S. business left unanswered the important question of who will run the new company. Inside TikTok, executives say there’s a very obvious candidate: Adam Presser, the longtime No. 2 to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and one of the top Americans at the company. In August, Presser became the new head of TikTok’s U.S. Data Security unit, which... Read more ›
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You might think the $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts would be today’s biggest business event. But that’s yesterday’s news—word of the deal broke on Friday. (For more on that, see below). Today’s biggest news, in reality, is OpenAI’s launch of its shopping feature, which puts the ChatGPT creator in competition with everyone from Amazon to Instagram. OpenAI unveiled what it calls an Instant Checkout feature, which it said was... Read more ›
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Snyk, a startup that sells security tools for developers, seemed like a shoe-in for a lucrative initial public offering a few years ago. Sales were doubling or tripling every year, reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, as exploding corporate use of open-source software code created vulnerabilities that businesses needed to patch. Snyk’s valuation soared to more than $8 billion. Now, the decade-old company seems stuck. The tech... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Can Reed Jobs be more than the son of Steve?• Electric Vehicles: The Chinese flying car that should worry Detroit—and Silicon Valley • Plus, our Recommendations: “The Romesh Ranganathan Show,” “When It All Burns” and “The Eastern Gate”The ultimate winner from the artificial intelligence wars remains hard to distinguish, but none of the contenders has displayed a more consistent ability to win... Read more ›
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