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Self-driving ridesharing service Waymo said Monday it has raised $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation. The valuation includes the size of the investment, according to an investor in the round. Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital led the round, it said. Waymo said that ...
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The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files shed light on the convicted sex offenderâs ties to Silicon Valleyâand Peter Thielâs exacting approach to food. 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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Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his AI startup xAI in an all-stock deal that values the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, ahead of what would be the largest initial public offering in history. SpaceX pegged its own valuation at $1 trillion -- a markup from the $800 billion it commanded in a December secondary stock sale -- and priced xAI at $250 billion based on a recent $20 billion funding... 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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By fusing SpaceX and xAIâwhich acquired X last yearâElon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence. Read more âș
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. 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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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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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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Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An update coming on February 24th will add a new "AI control" option to Firefox's settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser's individual AI features, including access to [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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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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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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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1690 on February 3 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more âș
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When you picture a virtual reality headset user, you're probably not picturing someone like Sherry Dickson. At 69, the snowy-haired, retired elementary school teacher hops into her Meta Quest headset five days a week, for roughly 60 to 90 minutes at a time. She's not attending live concerts or watching immersive films. Dickson, a fitness [âŠ] Read more âș
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Scientists at the University of Utah have analyzed nearly a century's worth of human hair samples and found that lead concentrations dropped 100-fold after the EPA began cracking down on leaded gasoline and other lead-based products in the 1970s. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drew on hair collected from Utah residents -- some preserved in family scrapbooks going back generations. Lead levels peaked... Read more âș
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Billie Eilish slammed ICE during her Song of the Year acceptance speech at the 2026 Grammy Awards. Read more âș
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Adobe is pulling the plug on Adobe Animate. In a FAQ posted to Adobe's website, the company says it will stop selling the animation software on March 1st, citing the emergence of new platforms "that better serve the needs of the users." Users have until March 1st, 2027 (or March 1st, 2029 for enterprise customers) [âŠ] Read more âș
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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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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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