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There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had with Masha Bucher, who is now a well-known venture capitalist.
On June 25, 2019, 11 days before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors, he asked Bucherâwho was then acting as a publicist for Epsteinâfor nude photographs during a flirty exchange on Skype, according to the latest files in.
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Elon Musk's mega-deal of SpaceX and xAI is the latest sign that the billionaire is consolidating his business empire as he goes all in on AI. Read more âș
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While the Trump administration continues its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, anti-ICE protests continued in Minneapolis and around the country â from Los Angeles to rural Maine â over the weekend. In the Twin Cities area, meanwhile, this activism is well-organized; but itâs not a traditional, anti-government protest movement of the likes we saw during [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bad Bunny's historic Grammy win for "DebĂ Tirar MĂĄs Fotos" highlights the intersection of art and politics amid ongoing immigration protests. Read more âș
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Moltbook bills itself as a social network for AI agents. That's a wacky enough concept in the first place, but the site apparently exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity firm Wiz, and its team assisted Moltbook with addressing the vulnerability. The issue appears to be the result of the entire Reddit-style forum being vibe-coded; Moltbook's human founder posted a few days... Read more âș
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Elon Musk is merging two of the companies that he leads, SpaceX and xAI (which also owns X), into one. According to an announcement from Musk: SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world's foremost real-time [âŠ] Read more âș
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Fewer people are coming to Disney Parks from Europe, Canada, and Mexico out of fear of current U.S. policies. Read more âș
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Waymo announced a $16 billion investment round aimed at bringing its robotaxi business to more US cities, as well as some overseas markets. The funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, a "crossover" firm known for investing in late-stage tech companies before they go public. Waymo's co-CEOs said in a blog post they would [âŠ] Read more âș
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Rocket company and AI model builder to combine as billionaire envisions data centres in space Read more âș
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"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission." Read more âș
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Intel is returning to desktop workstations with Xeon 600. Granite Rapids WS CPUs deliver up to 61% better multi-threaded performance, according to Intel, sporting up to 86 cores and 4TB of memory. Read more âș
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Last week, the Department of Justice released a trove of documents related to its case against Jeffrey Epstein, its largest to date. Amid the millions of files were many mentions of Elon Musk. A search of Musk's name in the department's database results in at least 1,500 hits. Since the release, Musk has been - [âŠ] Read more âș
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won't attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register. Sessions involving speakers from the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) have also disappeared from the agenda. "Since the beginning of this administration, CISA has made significant progress in returning to our statutory, core mission and focusing on President Trump's policies for... Read more âș
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Hollywood has been waiting to see if a big YouTuber could bring their fans to theaters. It just happened. Read more âș
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Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with âDEIâ or âgender ideology.â Read more âș
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The Trump administration will soon launch a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile designed to insulate U.S. manufacturing from supply disruptions tied to Chinaâs dominance of mining and refining. Read more âș
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The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Hereâs who shows up from Big Tech the most oftenâand what the files reveal. Read more âș
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Defense chief: "No Ukrainians have been killed by Russian drones using Starlink." Read more âș
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In a newly filed FCC application, Muskâs SpaceX outlines plans to launch a data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites. Read more âș
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Also some of the posts are probably "fake." Fake meaning a human wrote them. Read more âș
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Users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update for the app after its shared hosting servers were hijacked last year. On Monday, the app's developer, Don Ho, posted an update on the attack with more details, including that the hackers were "likely a Chinese state-sponsored group" and that [âŠ] Read more âș
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SoftBank is in talks to invest an additional $30 billion in OpenAI, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. An investment of that size would add to its more than $30 billion investment in the ChatGPT maker, likely cementing its role as the biggest shareholder. The talks are part of an ... Read more âș
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The battle for AI dominance in China is reaching new heights. Tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba Group are both poised to release their next flagship AI models around the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, in what could be the most consequential battle in the countryâs tech sector. ByteDance is preparing to release three new AI modelsâa large language model, an image generation model and a video modelânext month, according... Read more âș
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OpenAI recently updated its policy for handling whistleblower complaints, following concerns about AI startups ignoring what are standard rules applying to all companies. It follows similar steps from Anthropic and could pressure other AI companies to follow suit. Federal government rules mandate that companies cannot retaliate against employees who report wrongdoing. Legislation governing AI, including the E.U. AI Act and Californiaâs SB 53, has specifically mandated the protections for AI... Read more âș
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Anthropic has hiked its revenue forecasts for the next several years, projecting that sales will quadruple this year to as much as $18 billion and will hit $55 billion next year. It is aiming to shrink the revenue gap with OpenAI, its older archrival. The revenue projections, which havenât previously been reported, are significantly higher than the ones Anthropic made last summer. But expenses, including those from training and running... Read more âș
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If quarterly earnings announcements were a contest, Mark Zuckerberg would have won Wednesday. You might even say investors are coming to terms with Meta Platformsâ you-only-live-once approach to spending on AI. The owner of Facebook and Instagram reported stronger than projected fourth-quarter growth of 24% and projected that revenue growth would accelerate to 30% in the first quarter. Meta hasnât grown that fast since the go-go days of 2021. To... Read more âș
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As more tech executives weigh in on the weekendâs fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff this week that he believes âICE is going too far,â according to a copy of the internal memo published by the New York Timesâ DealBook. âThere is a big ... Read more âș
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Private equity firms are struggling to sell the software companies they acquired in a buying frenzy in 2021 and 2022, even though they enjoyed a rebound in sales for such companies last year. The lack of deals could force more PE firms to sell their holdings at a lower price, or even at a discount to the original deal price. Sales did pick up last year but not enough to... Read more âș
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Anaplan, a business-planning software provider owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, is taking steps toward an initial public offering and could file confidentially for the listing in the coming weeks, people familiar with the discussions said. The listing would be a sign that IPOs for PE-backed software companies could soon rebound. This would be Anaplanâs return to the public market after it was taken private by Thoma Bravo for... Read more âș
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The wave of so-called AI neolabs seeking breakthroughs they think incumbents like OpenAI will miss continues to rise. Core Automation, an AI startup founded by former senior OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek in recent weeks, aims to raise between $500 million and $1 billion in funding, according to a person who has spoken with the company. He wants to develop AI models using methods that major firms such as OpenAI and... Read more âș
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Anthropic, in December, projected to generate as much as $18 billion this year, about 20% more than its summer forecast, and $55 billion next year. The company expects to generate as much as $148 billion in 2029 in its most optimistic projectionsâ about $3 billion more than what OpenAI projected ... Read more âș
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