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AI coding startup Cursor is in discussions with investors to raise a funding round that could value the startup at $50 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The discussions are preliminary and may not result in a funding deal, the report said. Cursor last raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 ...
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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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Pushpaganda uses AI-generated content and deceptive tactics to trick users into enabling notifications that deliver scams and evade traditional security defenses. Read more ›
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Apple yesterday announced that longtime Apple CEO Tim Cook is planning to step down from his role later this year, with current hardware engineering chief John Ternus set to take over as CEO. We've seen media reports suggesting Ternus will bring Jobs-like decisiveness back to Apple, as well as reactions from top world leaders, but we thought we'd also highlight what MacRumors readers think of the transition. Reactions on the... Read more ›
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Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for AI hallucinations in a court filing. Another law firm spotted the mistakes. Read more ›
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"I think the doomerism talk hasn't helped. I think the way certain other labs talk about us hasn't helped," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said. Read more ›
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's new book, co-written with Nicholas Zamiska, is called "The Technological Republic." After claiming "because we get asked a lot", Palantir posted a 22-point summary of the book that reads like a corporate manifesto. […] Read more ›
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Cash App, the banking and payments app run by Block, has added support for parent-managed kids accounts. The new accounts include key benefits from the service's normal account, with an eye towards teaching financial literacy to younger users ages 6 to 12. Cash App first allowed teenage users on its platform in 2021.As part of the "expanded Cash App Families experience," eligible legal guardians and parents can create managed accounts... Read more ›
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The Historical Parallels There are a few pivotal moments in history that defined the open source and community-driven approach to major technology development and adoption. Among them are: Homebrew Computer Club (1970-1980) The Homebrew Computer Club (1975–1986): Founded by Fred Moore and Gordon French in Menlo Park, the club was a pivotal crucible for the ... Read more ›
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It notched a Guinness World Record for the highest-altitude launch and retrieval of a Lego set. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you count this RISC-V one). The laptop around those components has gradually gotten better, too. Over the years, Framework... Read more ›
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New York has become the latest state to argue that prediction market contracts touching on sports and entertainment violate state gambling laws. Read more ›
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Tim Cook and Donald Trump don't seem like natural allies, at all. But Cook unlocked Trump fairly early in his first term. There's a secret to how. Read more ›
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Turns out you can probably find some entire-home short-term rental listings in New York City, after all, because hosts take lawfully registered listings and convert them into illegal ones. Airbnb isn't required to take any action to limit the practice — and apparently isn't doing so. Read more ›
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If you're wondering what to do about rising gas prices, Chevron has a suggestion, but you're not going to like it. Here's what an executive said. Read more ›
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"Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began." Read more ›
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YouTube notifications can get messy fast, particularly if you’re subscribed to a lot of different channels. To address that, today the company will begin muting push notifications from creators that you haven’t engaged with in the last month.The change to YouTube notifications began as a small trial the company tested out earlier this year. The idea behind it is that if a viewer continually receives notifications about content they don't... Read more ›
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Jet fuel prices have spiked and supplies have dwindled as the US and Israeli war on Iran drags on, forcing some airlines to cancel flights. Read more ›
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Inline-four motorcycles offer a great balance of price versus performance, with 2026's most recent crop offering something for fans of affordable riding. Read more ›
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Businesses whose employees are heavy users of Anthropic’s Claude products are likely to pay significantly more for them after the company changed its pricing model in recent weeks to charge business customers based on the amount of AI they use. The shift, which hasn’t previously been reported, is the latest indication of how Anthropic is managing the booming popularity of its coding and agent products, which increase the costs of... Read more ›
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When Unilever last week announced its $1.2 billion acquisition of Grüns, a three-year-old brand of gummy vitamins, I had a flashback to a decade ago when Unilever bought Dollar Shave Club for almost the same price. That earlier deal marked the heyday of venture-backed consumer exits, which have been few and far between more recently. The Grüns sale is the latest sign that consumer investing is experiencing a revival. At... Read more ›
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Every now and then we get a reminder that big tech’s pockets are as deep as the Mariana Trench. Amazon’s purchase of satellite firm Globalstar offers one of those reminders. Despite spending $200 billion this year on capital expenditures for its AI expansion and committing $50 billion on an OpenAI investment, Amazon can still find a few loose coins in the couch to buy Globalstar. Amazon is paying about $4.6... Read more ›
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Anthropic said Tuesday that the CEO of pharmaceutical company Vas Narasimhan is joining its board, highlighting Anthropic’s increased focus on healthcare and life sciences. The Claude chatbot maker acquired biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million earlier this month. It has also ... Read more ›
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Salesforce has launched a tool that lets its customers connect other companies’ AI agents with their Salesforce data, an executive said on LinkedIn. The tool, known as a hosted Model Context Protocol server, shows how Salesforce is finding a way to generate revenue from customers using outside ... Read more ›
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ByteDance’s cloud computing unit has made the company’s Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model available globally to enterprise customers in more than 100 countries and regions around the world—but the U.S. is not among them. It is unclear whether the cloud unit, BytePlus, has any plans to offer ... Read more ›
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Snap said it was laying off about 16% of its workforce, or about 1,000 people, in an effort to reduce its cost base by $500 million and “establish a clearer path to net income profitability,” CEO Evan Spiegel said in a blog post. He added that advances in AI “enable our teams to reduce ... Read more ›
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Mike Krieger, an Instagram cofounder who previously was Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer and now leads the company’s “Labs” team, stepped down from Figma’s board of directors on Tuesday, according to a filing. The move came shortly after The Information broke the news that Anthropic is working ... Read more ›
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OpenAI plans to start pricing some ChatGPT ads based on whether people click on the ads rather than just how many people see them, an agency executive who spoke with OpenAI employees and works with ChatGPT advertisers said. At the same time, OpenAI has also indicated it plans to introduce ads aimed at getting people to take a specific action, like making a purchase or downloading an app, the agency... Read more ›
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Shoe maker Allbirds is pivoting—into AI chips. Weeks after announcing plans to sell its shoemaking assets to a fashion brand firm American Exchange Group for $39 million, Allbirds said it wants to turn itself into an AI chip-service firm—buying and renting out the valuable AI hardware. To ... Read more ›
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