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Private equity firms sold $3.5 billion of general partner stakes through the end of October, on pace to set a record, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing data from PitchBook. The GP stakes give outside investors a slice of investment firms’ profits and management fees. More ...
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CBS News, Bari Weiss, and "60 Minutes" are at the center of a debate after a segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison was pulled. Read more ›
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Amazon finds itself caught between two competing impulses as AI shopping agents from OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Microsoft mushroom across the e-commerce space -- block them to protect its dominant position, or partner with them to avoid being left behind. The company has largely played defense so far. Amazon recently updated its website code to block external AI agents from crawling it, and as of this week had blocked 47... Read more ›
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As one of the most beloved traditions of contemporary 'Doctor Who' turns 20, we look back on why the special that started it all is still the gold standard. Read more ›
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The Trump administration targeted EU figures over platform regulation, triggering backlash from Macron and digital regulators. Read more ›
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Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›
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A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›
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Candidates face intense physical, mental, and leadership challenges across three phases: indoctrination, academic, and applied leadership. Read more ›
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Waymo on Tuesday provided further details about its decision on Saturday to temporarily pause its robotaxi service in San Francisco amid a citywide power outage that caused its driverless cars to stall traffic. The company said it made the decision so its vehicles wouldn’t obstruct first ... Read more ›
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Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist — only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own. Read more ›
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The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage. Read more ›
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The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›
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Ukraine uses ground robots to fire at Russian targets and attack positions while its own soldiers stay at a safer distance. Read more ›
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SK hynix is expanding its U.S. presence with a new office in the Seattle metropolitan area, placing the world’s leading HBM supplier within minutes of Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft. Read more ›
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Timothée Chalamet took the full force of Kevin O'Leary's paddle whacks during a spanking scene in "Marty Supreme" and refused to use a stand-in. Read more ›
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Samsung has reportedly dropped plans for a Galaxy S26 Edge, with new reports suggesting weak demand and unclear positioning led to the ultra-thin model being shelved. Read more ›
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Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun described the first few days joining the company after its bankruptcy. "People are beat down," he said. Read more ›
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Back in November, Sony started selling PS5 consoles at a $100 discount as part of a Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion. The deal officially sunsets at 3AM ET, so now is a good time to bite the bullet on a gaming console given that prices aren't likely to go down anytime soon. You can pick up a regular disc-based PS5 for $450 and a digital model for $400. The beefy PS5... Read more ›
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France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’ 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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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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OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising at a valuation of around $750 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. It could raise tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100 billion, according to two of the people. Talks are early and nothing has been finalized. A valuation at that level would be 50% higher than OpenAI’s last share sale in October... Read more ›
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