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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI company cofounded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks to raise money at a roughly $50 billion valuation, according to a report from Bloomberg. The talks come just five months after the startup announced its last round at a $10 billion ...
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The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has finally been unveiled in China as the brand’s flagship phone. Alongside the standard model, the company also announced a 17 Ultra Leica edition, which gets a unique design and a mechanical zoom ring. Xiaomi 17 Ultra The 17 Ultra comes with a Leica branded triple rear camera setup with a primary 50MP 1-inch size Light Fusion 1050L sensor with support for LOFIC technology. This is... Read more ›
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A Texas energy startup proposes repurposing retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in AI data centers. Read more ›
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Starlink satellite 35956 suffered from a serious anomaly on December 17. It has been pictured largely intact, tumbling in space, but it will be weeks before it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere. Read more ›
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Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part of the biggest purchase it's ever made. Read more ›
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What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB. Read more ›
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A new Chrome Platform Status entry shows Google working on Global Privacy Control support, aligning the browser with California privacy laws and stronger, enforceable opt-out signals. Read more ›
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Macy's, Kroger, and Carter's are leading 2026 US retail store closures, citing long-term strategy and shifting consumer habits. Read more ›
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The EU was the first to make Apple open up its walled garden but a lot of individual countries across the world have followed suit after seeing that this strategy actually works. The latest is Brazil, where Apple has agreed to allow iPhone owners to download and purchase apps and digital services outside of its App Store. The company made a deal with Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense, which... Read more ›
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AMD prepares EXPO 1.2 revision that could bring CUDIMM support to next-generation Ryzen processors. Read more ›
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Framework is increasing the prices of its memory modules in response to market pricing once more. Also encourages its buyers to look for better deal elsewhere as the memory market crunch bites into the PC building industry. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Waymo's fleet of autonomous robotaxis can navigate city streets and compete with human taxi drivers, but they become stranded when a passenger leaves a door ajar -- prompting the company to pay tow truck operators around $20 to $24 through an app called Honk just to push a door shut. The owner of a towing company in Inglewood, California, completes up to three such jobs a week for Waymo, sometimes... Read more ›
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Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2024. When I was about 7, Los Angeles public schools shifted to a “year-round” schedule. The effect, for my elementary school, was a shorter summer break (boo), and an extra-long winter break (also, it […] Read more ›
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The Xiaomi 17 Ultra isn’t just chasing higher megapixels. It’s rethinking how smartphone zoom should feel with a physical zoom ring wrapped around a massive 200MP periscope camera. Read more ›
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Taiwan’s iPass has released a new custom payment card that looks just like a Floppy Disk. Read more ›
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After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at all costs, and post whatever he wanted online. But what does Vance — the former “never Trump” conservative who has maneuvered, at least for now, into the position of MAGA heir […] 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 $418 Smartlet literally bridges the gap between your elegant analogy and your nerdy smartwatch. Read more ›
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The US military has some strange rules for its troops unlikely to be found anywhere else 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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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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Nvidia has stopped testing an Intel process to manufacture its chips, Reuters reported, driving Intel’s shares down. Nvidia was recently testing an Intel production process known as 18A but decided to stop moving forward with the efforts, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the ... 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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Two Chinese AI startups are vying to be the first publicly traded AI model providers in the global stock market, ahead of expected future initial public offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Chinese firms’ IPO filings offer a window into the hardship facing smaller AI firms that don’t have older cash-cow businesses.Shanghai-based MiniMax Group and Beijing-based Knowledge Atlas Technology, better known as Zhipu, both recently received regulatory approval to go... 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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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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