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Elad Gil, the venture capitalist who made early investments in Perplexity, Harvey, Stripe and Airbnb, has doubled the target size of his new fund to nearly $3 billion from $1.5 billion earlier this summer, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraise. If Gil succeeds in raising that much money, it would be the largest known fund raised by a solo general partner. The new target hasn’t been reported. A larger checkbook would give Gil more money to double down on investments as they grow and as
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A new British airline is building its future on outdated, fuel-thirsty Airbus widebodies that most major carriers have spent years getting rid of. Read more ›
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Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 billion break-up fee in case regulators block the buyout. Netflix reportedly offered $30 […] Read more ›
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Defense forces "want a hundred percent reliability and the AI is just not there," Ark Robotics' founder and CEO told Business Insider. Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 series, launching next year, is rumored to have faster wireless charging, and to match those speeds, Samsung is said to be working on a new wireless charger. Samsung's current Qi2 wireless charger supports 15W wireless charging, but the new wireless charger, having model number EP-P2900, will support 25W wireless charging. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's leaked render (Source: OnLeaks and AndroidHeadlines) According to retailer data, this charger... Read more ›
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Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer who previously worked at Google Brain, said it was "surprising than it's taken this long" for Google to catch OpenAI. Read more ›
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Netflix is in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service, according to sources from Bloomberg and CNN. That suggests Netflix submitted a superior offer to rivals including Paramount Skydance Corp (owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) and Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal. The deal could be consummated within days and, if approved, would change the landscape of Hollywood and the streaming market. Warner... Read more ›
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How to watch college football for free. Live stream Troy vs. James Madison in 2025 without cable. Read more ›
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Here's what you need to know about every Bluetooth codec, and why you should even care. Read more ›
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EHS International, a leading Irish provider of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) solutions?headquartered in Cork, has announced a strategic partnership with?Cinnte Safety, Ireland’s foremost provider of?Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) services and training. The collaboration strengthens EHS International’s service portfolio by offering clients a comprehensive, expert-led solution for safe, compliant, and efficient traffic management across construction, infrastructure, utilities, […] Read more ›
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NASA and CNES's SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution, wide-swath image of a major tsunami in the open ocean after the July 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka quake. "Instead of a single neat crest racing across the basin, the image revealed a complicated, braided pattern of energy dispersing and scattering over hundreds of miles," reports Earth.com. "These are details that traditional instruments almost never resolve. They suggest the physics we use to forecast... Read more ›
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In the AI boom, generators are cash cows — and companies like Caterpillar and Cummins are getting rich from this unsexy but crucial equipment. Read more ›
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Michelle Baltrusitis, head of community at Fiverr, said freelancing has boomed in the Sun Belt, including in Orlando and Miami. Read more ›
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It's a new era of drone warfare. Defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing are under pressure as Silicon Valley upstarts make cheap, fast models. Read more ›
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When it comes to vehicles, luxury and performance equal a high price tag. Here are the most power luxury cars to get excited about in 2026. Read more ›
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The full release of action role-playing game Path of Exile 2 - otherwise known as the 1.0 release - has slipped further away again. The game is currently in early access, remember. Read more Read more ›
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How to watch college football for free. Live stream North Texas vs. Tulane in 2025 without cable. Read more ›
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yuv, a British beauty technology company developing a smart hair colour lab system for salons and freelancers, today announced the close of its €10 million ($12 million) Series A funding round. The round was led by Nineyards Equity, with participation from yuv’s Founder Francisco Gimenez, existing investor VNV Global, and a network of strategic angels. ... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, according to an internal memo. As a result, OpenAI plans to delay other initiatives, such as advertising, Altman said. Read more ›
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Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered expectations for how quickly it can get customers to spend money on these newer products, known as agents. Multiple Microsoft divisions, for instance, have lowered... Read more ›
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Amazon is planning a new ultrafast delivery offering for groceries and other daily essentials in major urban areas in the U.S., a critical test of the e-commerce giant’s ambitions to sell more daily staples to consumers and supercharge its grocery business. In recent months, Amazon has approached large consumer packaged goods brands to ask them for lists of products it could sell through the service, according to a person with... Read more ›
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Google’s efforts to sell or lease its artificial intelligence server chips so they can run in any company’s data center—and not just in Google Cloud—have generated headlines, stock moves and a noteworthy response from AI chip leader Nvidia. It’s not lost on Nvidia that two of the world’s best AI models, from Google and Anthropic, were developed fully or partly using AI server chips made by Google rather than with... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be Anthropic’s first acquisition, according to the person. The acquisition would give Anthropic, which already has been using Bun... Read more ›
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Meta is hiring one of Apple’s top designers, Alan Dye, who ran the company’s user interface design team, Bloomberg reported. Longtime designer Stephen Lemay will take his spot at Apple, the news outlet reported. Apple’s design team has suffered from regular bouts of turnover since the company’s ... Read more ›
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Three years after the U.S.’s sweeping export restrictions that cut off Chinese access to AI chips, China has managed to turn the situation around. For the next five years, it will have more AI chips than its companies need. The excessive supply is a combination of local chipmakers catching up and tech companies stockpiling Nvidia chips via both the open and black market, according to estimates from investment bank Jefferies. Read more ›
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OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen told some colleagues about the new model, which was performing well on the company’s evaluations, at least when compared to Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 in tasks involving coding and reasoning, according to a person with knowledge... Read more ›
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Chinese short-video company Kuaishou Technology on Tuesday launched a new artificial intelligence model that seeks to integrate different stages of video generation. Kuaishou said that its new model, Kling Video O1, not only creates videos but also offers various editing capabilities, such as ... Read more ›
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Moore Threads, a Chinese chip designer blacklisted by the U.S., drew frenzied demand from retail investors last week in its initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Its share offering was more than 4,000 times oversubscribed, according to an exchange filing. Moore Threads, which ... Read more ›
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