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Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is a quiet irony in the fact that the person who built [âŠ]
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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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 âș
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Reading question-returning as deflection misses the point. It's a defensive system built in childhood â the brain's way of staying in control of a conversation that used to be unsafe to be the subject of. Read more âș
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Kids and retirees are vibe coding with AI tools. Meet the unlikely users redefining who can build with AI. Read more âș
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Rei Onoda bought a $50,000 abandoned home in rural Japan while pregnant â she and her husband quit their jobs. Read more âș
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Charles Yang spent 10 years building startups in China, then 10 in the US. Here's what he learned about the two systems. Read more âș
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Red Lobster once blamed its blockbuster Endless Shrimp deal for its downfall. Now the all-you-can-eat promo is back â but the vibe is different. Read more âș
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Founder Taylor James launched the two-sided platform late last year to give independent venues an alternative to traditional advertising â connecting them with more than 350 vetted local content creators. Read more âș
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Founder Taylor James launched the two-sided platform late last year to give independent venues an alternative to traditional advertising â connecting them with more than 350 vetted local content creators. Read more âș
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The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are known for retaining their value quite well, but one of these two Toyota pickups has a slight disadvantage here. Read more âș
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Elon Musk testified on day two of his trial against OpenAI, saying he helped create the company as a nonprofit counterweight to Google and would not have backed it if the goal had been private profit. CNBC reports: Musk on Tuesday was the first witness called to testify in the trial. He spoke about his upbringing, his many companies, his role in founding OpenAI and his understanding of its structure.... Read more âș
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Tecno introduced the Spark 50 5G in March, followed by the Spark 50 4G earlier this month. A new report now suggests that the company is gearing up to launch the Spark 50 Pro 5G, and has revealed its key specifications and launch timeline. The Tecno Spark 50 Pro is said to debut in India in May, but will arrive in global markets slightly earlier. The Tecno Spark 50 According... Read more âș
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Streaming services made smart TVs popular, but many built-in operating systems now struggle with performance, updates, and long-term app support. Read more âș
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Satya Nadella unveiled Microsoft's largest-ever Australian investment alongside Anthony Albanese in Sydney last week, with plans to expand local Azure capacity by 140%, extend the ASD Cyber-Shield, and skill three million Australians by 2028. Read more âș
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Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons. Read more âș
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A small group communicating via a private Discord channel accessed Claude Mythos Preview by guessing the modelâs URL on the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has found no evidence of impact to its core systems. The breach highlights the risks of restricting access to frontier AI capabilities through [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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A year after flying and recovering the continentâs first private re-entry capsule, the German-French startup is moving from demonstration to operations. Three PHOENIX 2 vehicles, a new defence entity, and a next-generation 1-tonne capsule are all funded by the round. ATMOS Space Cargo, the European company developing orbital transport and re-entry vehicles, has closed a [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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The Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they operate in, learning on the job as a specialist rather [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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In short: Meta faces a convergence of lawsuits across the US, Australia, and the UK alleging the company knowingly profited from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, with its own internal documents projecting that 10% of 2024 revenue, roughly $16 billion, came from fraudulent advertising. The cases span a $500 million pump-and-dump scheme, deepfake celebrity [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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The FT reports that OpenAIâs $500M initial equity stake, with an option for $1B more, will go into a Delaware LLC designed to accelerate AI adoption across PE portfolio companies. OpenAI is guaranteeing backers a 17.5% annual return. A close is expected in early May. OpenAI is set to commit up to $1.5 billion of [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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In short: Bond, a new âpost-feedâ social network founded by former Index Ventures principal Dino Becirovic and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Brazinskas, launched on 21 April with no infinite scroll and no algorithmic feed, instead using AI trained on usersâ photos, videos, and audio to recommend real-world activities. The app enters a growing âhealthier social [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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The move, disclosed in an internal memo seen by Reuters, is framed as a way to teach AI agents how humans navigate software. Critics say it is workplace surveillance under a different name. Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employeesâ work computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots, which will [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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Summary: Japanet Holdings, the Japanese TV shopping company based in Nagasaki, has quadrupled its venture capital fund to $200 million after early investments through Pegasus Tech Ventures in Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX, and OpenAI generated extraordinary paper returns. Anthropic alone has appreciated from a $550 million valuation in 2021 to $380 billion in 2026. The expansion [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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Attorney General James Uthmeier said prosecutors reviewed chat logs showing ChatGPT advised the suspect on weapons, ammunition, and timing. The probe is the first criminal investigation into an AI company over an alleged role in a mass shooting in the US. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday that the stateâs Office of Statewide [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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Summary: OpenAI has shifted ChatGPTâs advertising from CPM to cost-per-click pricing, with bids between $3 and $5, after the $60 CPM it charged at launch in February eroded to as low as $25 within ten weeks. The move puts OpenAI in direct competition with Google and Meta for performance ad budgets, while Perplexity and Anthropic [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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