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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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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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It’s Tuesday, May 12, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s funding rounds highlight where investors believe the next wave of technological leverage will emerge: AI drug discovery, autonomous defense systems, crypto compliance infrastructure, ... Read more ›
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Google is giving the mouse pointer a Gemini-powered upgrade on Googlebook, allowing users to point, speak, and get help across the desktop without writing detailed prompts. Read more ›
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Sandisk open sources SPRandom, reducing SSD pre-conditioning time from days to hours depending on drive capacity and deployment requirements. Read more ›
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We all know that Apple products tend to be more expensive than the competition. Are there any Apple products that are a better deal than something from Samsung? Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is out of a job. What happened? Makary, who led the federal agency in charge of regulating drugs, […] Read more ›
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The lawsuit claims Meta is not doing enough to protect senior citizens and other vulnerable groups. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel acknowledged his dispute with President Trump in Disney's presentation to advertisers, while nodding at "The Bachelorette" controversy. Read more ›
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NHS England (NHSE) is set to grant staff from Palantir and other external consultancies “admin” roles providing broad access to identifiable patient data. This shift, reported bythe Financial Times, involves the National Data Integration Tenant (NDIT), a repository where data is held before being pseudonymized for wider system use. Shift in Data Access Policy Previously, individuals working with the NDIT were required to apply for specific data access approvals on... Read more ›
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A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on T-Mobile's network, called REALLY, announced a new AI-based pilot project. It aims to build an AI assistant trained on your voice to handle trivial calls for you. The company's CEO says the AI clone is not meant to replace you, but to help focus on what's important. The feature is pretty straightforward. The AI trains on your voice, speaking style and communication preferences.... Read more ›
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The chatbot noted that the teen had a “major substance abuse” problem, but allegedly encouraged him anyway. Read more ›
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Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, says it reached an agreement with the hackers who stole 3.5 terabytes of student and university data. The company says it received "digital confirmation" that the information was destroyed and that affected schools and students would not be extorted. The BBC reports: Paying cyber criminals goes against the advice of law enforcement agencies around the world, as it can fuel... Read more ›
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Google DeepMind employees in the U.K. sent a letter to management asking Google to voluntarily recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the AI research unit’s U.K.-based staff. The letter, sent Tuesday, is the first official step toward possible ... Read more ›
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News this week about private equity firms’ new joint ventures with OpenAI and Anthropic came at the right time for PE giants: just as they were about to sit down with their investors for days of meetings at the annual Milken Institute conference. The AI partnerships put the slew of PE firms involved—in Anthropic’s case, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Apollo, and, in OpenAI’s case, TPG, Bain Capital and Advent,... Read more ›
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OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman said that Elon Musk does not understand artificial intelligence, testifying Tuesday in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. “Look, he knows rockets. He knows electric cars. He did not—and I believe does not—know AI,” Brockman said. His comment responded to ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is building a consumer version of the AI agent OpenClaw and a new agentic shopping tool, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company is training the OpenClaw-inspired agent, internally called “Hatch,” with the goal of internal testing by the end of June, one of the ... Read more ›
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Greetings!Before we get to today’s news, check out our new text-to-audio tool that lets you listen to all of our articles on desktop or mobile web. Just press the Listen button on any article (I promise you will not hear my voice, just in case the thought of that was offputting!).There must be a template out there somewhere, probably created by AI, that companies use to announce layoffs nowadays. After... Read more ›
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Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google’s AI models, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The discussions follow the establishment of two separate companies set up by Anthropic and OpenAI and ... Read more ›
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AI server chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that its revenue growth would accelerate eight percentage points to 46% in the current quarter, after rising 38% to $10.3 billion in the first quarter. Shares rose 16% in after-hours trading. Sales of AMD’s AI graphics processing units are ... Read more ›
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China’s national artificial intelligence fund is in talks to invest in DeepSeek in a funding round that is now expected to value the company at more than 300 billion yuan ($44 billion), according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer ... Read more ›
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Four years after its was exiled from the U.S., Polymarket was desperate to get back into the country. To make that happen, the prediction market bought a derivative and futures exchange that had just gotten a U.S. license and hired its chief executive, Justin Hertzberg, to run Polymarket U.S. Hertzberg appears to be CEO in name only. His main job for Polymarket appears to be signing U.S. regulatory documents. The... Read more ›
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In recent months, a lot of discussion has centered around the rising costs of AI, with even large, sophisticated public companies like Uber blowing through their 2026 AI budgets in a matter of months.Even venture capitalists are feeling the pain. One partner at a large fund told me that they previously gave five of their staffers enterprise Claude accounts to help them with their work. In recent weeks, those usage-based... Read more ›
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