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Spark Capital, the first venture firm to back Anthropic, is in the process of raising about $3 billion in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraise.
The fundraising target will test investor demand in a venture firm that made early bets on one of the initial winners of the AI boom. It comes after Khosla Ventures, the first venture firm to invest in OpenAI, another early winner, is raising over $4 billion, up 25% from its
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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In case you hadn't gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company best known for supplying AI-driven defense and surveillance software to the likes of the US Army, ICE and NYPD shared a 1,000-word X post this weekend covering its main points. The entire thing is both bizarre and deeply concerning.... Read more ›
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Когда Apple добавила вырез (notch) в MacBook, реакция у многих была примерно одинаковая:он есть — и с ним приходится просто мириться.В отличие от iPhone, где появился Dynamic Island и вырез стал частью интерфейса, на macOS он до сих пор остаётся пассивным элементом. Он не несёт функциональной нагрузки и никак не взаимодействует с пользователем.У меня возник простой вопрос:а что если сделать вырез частью UI, а не ограничением?Так появился проект DynamicNotch. Читать... Read more ›
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When every fund claims the same great networks and strong relationships, nobody wins. Bauer, Co-Founder of TBV, offers a more rigorous framework for emerging managers to build a unique value proposition. Read more ›
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Huawei's Pura X Max foldable will debut in China on April 20. The wide-aspect foldable is shorter but brings wider screens, especially the unfolded one. It packs a triple rear camera, and will come in a range of colors - Interstellar Blue, Olive Gold, Phantom Night Black, Vibrant Orange, and Zero Degree White. The Pura X Max will arrive alongside the Pura 90 Pro series. Sony's Xperia 1 VIII will... Read more ›
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Developers and traders warn of structural risks as a cross-chain exploit spreads fear and prompts billions to flee DeFi platforms. Read more ›
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На одном из созвонов потенциальный заказчик поделился болью:“Меньше чем за год велосити команды внешнего вендора упала в разы. Почему задачи, которые должны занимать 2–3 дня, растягиваются на недели?”Проект шел уже почти год с участием внешнего IT-вендора. По документам на проекте работала senior-команда: сильные CV, большой опыт, уверенные интервью. Ожидания были понятные - стабильная скорость разработки и предсказуемый результат.Первые месяцы так и было. Но примерно через полгода начали появляться странны Read more ›
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«— А трактор случайно не в залоге?» — с такого вопроса обычно и начинался рабочий день сотрудников департамента залогового обеспечения в нашем банке. За ним стоит однотипная рутина, на которую раньше уходила большая часть времени: открыть Реестр уведомлений о залоге движимого имущества, ввести данные клиента, подождать результат, проанализировать, принять решение — и так по каждому.Проверка одного заемщика занимает не больше пяти минут, но, когда за час приходит сотня заявок, ручной... Read more ›
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What seems like a simple stop at Discount Tire can suddenly get complicated. Discover the important reasons why filling your flat might be a no-go. Read more ›
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A dataminer believes they've discovered unused music hidden in the backend of Resident Evil Requiem, suggesting it "could be related to [a] future extra mode or Mercenaries". Read more Read more ›
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"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..." The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the... Read more ›
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Anyone looking to upgrade to the next Mac Studio or MacBook Pro might have to wait a little longer, thanks to the ongoing global memory shortage. As reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, "at least two of the company's upcoming machines ... could debut a little later than the company initially planned," referencing the refreshes to Apple's desktop and its laptop that's expected to get a touchscreen. Bloomberg reported that the... Read more ›
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Skip the Ninja hype and check out these highly rated appliances on Amazon that deliver robust performance, diverse function, and great value. Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin completed the third mission for its New Glenn rocket, which mostly went as planned. On Sunday morning, the rocket’s booster successfully landed on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, the second time Blue Origin has accomplished that ... Read more ›
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Sarah Israel found boxes of her dad's McDonald's memorabilia from the '70s and '80s and is now selling most of the collection. Read more ›
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Представьте, что вы участковый врач‑терапевт (а если вы на самом деле врач — то вообще супер). И вот пациент у вас на приёме жалуется на потерю 20 кг за последние 3 месяца, постоянную слабость, а ещё на появившиеся в последнее время прожилки крови в кале. И вот после озвученных жалоб у вас, надеюсь, происходит в голове перебор всех возможных болезней, которые дают такую клиническую картину. Если у вас нормально прошёл... Read more ›
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![[Перевод] OpenAI выкупила Sky – теперь в Codex лучшая система управления компьютером, которую я видел](https://times42.com/media/3/4/5/12302345_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] OpenAI выкупила Sky – теперь в Codex лучшая система управления компьютером, которую я видел")
На днях компания OpenAI представила обновленное приложение Codex для Mac. Среди множества нововведений особняком стоит встроенный инструмент управления macOS, который позволяет Codex взаимодействовать сразу с несколькими программами. Делает он это в фоновом режиме с помощью “параллельных курсоров”: агенты работают с приложениями сами по себе, не перетягивая окна на передний план и не отвлекая пользователя. По сути, эта функция – буквальное воплощение проекта Sky. Позже OpenAI выкупила этот стартап вместе со Read more ›
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В 2020-е доступ к цифровым сервисам стал чуть сложнее — особенно если речь идет о зарубежных AI-инструментах. Многие из них работают в России, но при попытке оформить подписку начинаются проблемы: платёж не проходит, карта отклоняется, а привычные способы оплаты не работают.Ситуация неприятная, но уже давно не критичная.Сейчас у пользователей есть несколько рабочих способов оплатить Claude даже из России. Это не обход системы, а просто использование альтернативных вариантов, которые стали нормой... Read more ›
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We interrupt our regular AI programming to talk about something more entertaining: Netflix! The video-streaming giant kicks off tech earnings season on Thursday with its first-quarter earnings. It’s the first quarterly report since Netflix walked away from its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio operations, so that distraction is gone. Now we’re back to guessing how long Netflix can keep growing at its recent annual... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed an attack on his San Francisco home in a personal blog post on Friday, noting rising criticism of the AI industry and saying there is a need to “de-escalate the rhetoric.” Earlier that day, San Francisco police arrested a man for allegedly throwing a Molotov ... Read more ›
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As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features that would make its AI assistant Copilot function more like OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has taken the AI industry by storm in recent months. A newly created team under Microsoft corporate vice president Omar Shahine is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context,” including a team of always-on agents... Read more ›
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Tether, the world’s biggest stablecoin issuer, has hired Jeremy Pollack, most recently vice president of Kinexys by JPMorgan, the bank’s blockchain business unit, to be its institutional expansion manager. Based in New York City, Pollack will build institutional partnerships to promote the usage ... Read more ›
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AI developers are getting more creative in how they acquire data to train AI models. For instance, they’re paying startups to develop copies of popular apps, like Salesforce or Excel, to teach models how to use the apps—otherwise known as reinforcement learning environments or gyms.One beneficiary of this trend is Fleet, a two-year-old startup that develops and sells those RL environments. The startup is now in talks to raise at... Read more ›
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An OpenAI executive said in a memo to staff Sunday that the company is seeing “staggering” demand for its upcoming joint product with AWS and that its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft had “limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are,” CNBC reported Monday. As one of OpenAI’s ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is playing catch-up in the AI power race by grabbing big sites in Texas and West Virginia for data centers fired by natural gas. It wasn’t long ago that the company had a big lead.In the early days of the AI boom, Microsoft’s in-house energy team amassed a 9-gigawatt war chest of grid-powered data center sites that was the envy of the industry, according to people with knowledge of... Read more ›
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AI firms’ voracious appetite for more data has lifted sales for obscure startups doing the industry’s unglamorous work: contracting with lawyers, PhD holders and medical doctors who grade the answers AI models generate. The latest is Handshake, a 12-year-old startup that began as a job site for college graduates. Handshake’s gross annualized revenue from AI training has risen to nearly $1 billion, up from $550 million in January and $5... Read more ›
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Dell and HP shares fell about 3% after hours Monday after Nvidia denied a report from website SemiAccurate that claimed the chip giant had been negotiating a deal for more than a year to acquire a large company that makes personal computers. The report didn’t identify the company but Dell and ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab has hired Rudolf Laine and Luke Drago, the co-founders Workshop Labs, a one-year-old startup that develops software for personalizing AI systems, and has bought the startup’s technology, according to a spokesperson for Thinking Machines. The price of the deal was not ... Read more ›
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