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A billionaire CEO of an electric car maker took the stage last week with a humanoid robot prototype and shared ambitious plans to also develop robotaxis and flying cars. It wasn’t Elon Musk, though.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook bought $3 million in Nike shares, nearly doubling his stake in the company. Read more ›
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SpaceX mafia startups are raising billions in venture capital, with ex-employees launching companies across aerospace, AI, and health. Read more ›
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta are all paying top dollar to attract and develop the best new talent. Read more ›
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The Trump administration's final rule on limiting eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is set to go into effect in July 2026. Read more ›
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At a time when many companies are rolling back flexible work arrangements and scrutinizing productivity, Duolingo's approach stands out. Read more ›
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Timothée Chalamet teams with Josh Safdie for a pulse-pounding ping-pong drama "Marty Supreme." Review. Read more ›
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Rocsys CEO Crijn Bouman is making automated charging ports with the goal of doubling the amount of robotaxis that can be managed by a single human. Read more ›
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With NASA's Mars Sample Return mission delayed into the 2030s, engineers are certifying the Perseverance rover to keep operating for many more years while it continues collecting and safeguarding Martian rock samples. Ars Technica reports: The good news is that the robot, about the size of a small SUV, is in excellent health, according to Steve Lee, Perseverance's deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "Perseverance is approaching... Read more ›
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Recently, Nick Noone, co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, was introduced to Candace Parker, sports broadcaster and retired WNBA star, by mutual friends. They hit it off. The two share a passion for athletics. (Noone was a Stanford gymnast.) And both have an interest in startups. (Parker is an active angel investor.) After Noone described how his startup sells Palantir-esque data analytics software to local police and public safety departments, Parker... Read more ›
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As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run the servers that power ChatGPT’s subscription business and selling access to models to corporate customers. The company’s compute... Read more ›
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Over the past this year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ways to get useful responses out of it, one employee said. But even as ChatGPT attracted more users this year,... Read more ›
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TikTok employees working for the company’s U.S. Data Security division will be moved under a U.S. joint venture ownership company in January and will no longer be able to receive Restricted Stock Units from TikTik’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, staff were told on Friday. The U.S. Data ... Read more ›
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Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have gained popularity in the U.S. by letting people bet on everything from elections to Oscar winners to weather trends. But over the past year, a substantial portion of their wagers—and in Kalshi’s case the vast majority—have come from sports betting. And now traditional sportsbooks and crypto exchanges are crashing the prediction market party. DraftKings, one of the two largest online sportsbooks in the... Read more ›
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to engineering leaders at the company who were working on a consumer version of Copilot, the AI-powered assistant inside several Microsoft products. A Microsoft manager on the email thread noted that Google’s Gemini chatbot had recently gotten better at connecting with Google Drive for tasks like summarizing the contents of photos stored in folders. Nadella, meanwhile, wasn’t pleased with... Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to understand how their applications are performing and allows them to spot disruptions and outages. The deal would bring Snowflake into closer competition with... Read more ›
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Over the past year, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and many of Silicon Valley’s other top venture capital firms have funneled at least $1.2 billion in funding to startups selling technology to city police departments and local public safety agencies. Those companies illustrate the ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI lab co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is planning to release its own in-house models next year, co-founder and Chief Scientist John Schulman said on a podcast. So far, Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an application programming ... Read more ›
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Brett Adcock, the CEO of robotics startup Figure AI, has started a new AI lab called Hark, which will be funded by $100 million of his personal capital, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to Figure employees and investors on Thursday seen by The Information. The AI lab will be focused on ... Read more ›
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