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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz says only a small subset of AI companies, such as portfolio companies Safe Superintelligence Inc. and Thinking Machines Labs, need massive compute contracts. But many AI startups still need help getting access to bottlenecked resources, like chips to train their models.The venture firm said Thursday it had hired Raghu Raghuram, former VMware CEO, to help address those computing challenges. Horowitz believes Raghuram is one of the few people in the world with the l
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Jason Droege said that the first trait he looks for is if someone if a "curious problem solver" and if they can express that verbally. Read more âș
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Google announced the Pixel 10 Pro Fold alongside the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL back in August, but the folding smartphone only became available today. To celebrate the occasion, Google has explained why it chose to build a gearless hinge for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and it's all about offering more "without sacrificing the benefits of pro-level phones". Google's designers and engineers took the... Read more âș
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"If you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong," one Bluesky user noted. Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump successfully directed the indictment of another of his personal political enemies, New York state Attorney General Letitia James. What happened? James was [âŠ] Read more âș
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Stringent border checks come after Beijing orders tech companies to stop ordering US processors Read more âș
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The poll also found that most respondents don't agree with the Trump administration's assertion that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of autism. Read more âș
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fjo3 shares a report from the Washington Post: Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over thousands or millions of years. The company, Terradot, is spreading tons of volcanic rock crushed into a fine dust over land where soybeans, sugar cane and other crops are grown. As rain percolates through the soil, chemical... Read more âș
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Collecting photo cards is so central to the K-pop business that stores sell fans rare cards. I went, and I couldn't stick to my budget. Read more âș
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"There's something to knowing that no matter how painful, or how difficult, or how devastating something is, there is a way through," Nicole Kidman said. Read more âș
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Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study shows even massive models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 3.1 are vulnerable. The Register reports: In order to generate poisoned data for their... Read more âș
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Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has taken some inspiration from Apple's Liquid Glass design language for its latest operating system update, OriginOS 6. Unveiled this week, OriginOS 6 has the same rounded buttons and translucent glass look as iOS 26. In a demo video, a Vivo smartphone features an interface that could be easily mistaken for âiOS 26â. There's a Liquid Glass clock, Control Center, squircle icons, glass-like rounded buttons, translucent... Read more âș
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Dominion settled lawsuits with Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell before its acquisition. Read more âș
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Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt. Read more âș
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The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want. Read more âș
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Apple has invited a group of social media influencers to Colorado this week for an unusual event involving group hiking, trail running, and other outdoor activities designed to showcase the company's recently launched iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3. An invitation was shared on X (Twitter) by photographer Johnny Hawk, featuring a simple message: "Hi Johnny. We're so excited to welcome you to Colorado.... Read more âș
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is facing a gas shortage and has tapped into its "rainy day" diesel reserves. Read more âș
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Sean "Diddy" Combs' judge has offered to recommend that Combs be considered for admission to any available substance abuse program while incarcerated. Read more âș
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Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out specialized cloud servers to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers over the next five fiscal years. But internal documents show the fast-growing cloud business has had razor-thin gross profit margins in the past year or so, lower than what many... Read more âș
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A group of Tesla shareholders is urging investors to vote against CEO Elon Muskâs proposed pay package, which could be worth up to $1 trillion, at the electric automakerâs annual meeting next month, according to a letter included in a regulatory filing. The shareholders, which include officials ... Read more âș
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Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but theyâve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from competitors like Anthropic and Google.OpenAI on Monday announced Agent Builder, a set of tools for configuring agents to resolve IT support tickets or... Read more âș
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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 âș
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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said Tuesday that the cloud provider will not change its $9 billion bid for Core Scientific ahead of a shareholder vote scheduled for October 30. Two Seas Capital said last month it would vote against the deal and urged other shareholders to do so. The hedge fund, ... Read more âș
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Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track whoâs making changes to a codebase, and sandboxes where code can be safely run and tested without affecting the main system.Now, a startup is building such tools for artificial intelligence agents that aim to do the work of human coders. Andreessen Horowitz, which has been among the most prolific backers of young AI startups in the... Read more âș
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Peter Thielâs 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,... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Can Reed Jobs be more than the son of Steve?âąÂ Electric Vehicles: The Chinese flying car that should worry Detroitâand Silicon Valley ⹠Plus, our Recommendations: âThe Romesh Ranganathan Show,â âWhen It All Burnsâ and âThe Eastern GateâThe 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 âș
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OpenAI on Monday unveiled its biggest-yet effort to bring all of the webâs consumer activities directly into ChatGPT, as it aims to turn the chatbot into a so-called superapp that people can use to control any app in their livesâsimilar to Facebookâs efforts from 15 years ago. But before we get too excited, we should remember weâve been here before. The âapps in ChatGPTâ feature allows people to access apps... Read more âș
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The history of art is the history of technology. And generally, each time technology has advanced and helped a new medium flourish, the legal system has evolved to support the artists pushing the boundaries of human creativity. Yet our approach to the newest frontierâworks created with generative artificial intelligenceâthreatens to unwind over 100 years of legal precedent, endangering emerging artists and stagnating creativity. Policymakers and courts should recognize media created... Read more âș
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