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Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store.
The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s co-founder and designer—a revelation to the startup’s CEO, Ben Sandofsky, who learned of it while investigating de With late last year over an unrelated matter. He fired de With in December, and de With announced he had joi
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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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Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest snapped up over 500,000 shares of Robinhood on Wednesday, joining a wave of analysts who believe a surge in April trading activity will outweigh a recent earnings disappointment. Read more ›
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Microsoft is now rolling out its Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs. The new Xbox mode adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, much like Steam's Big Picture Mode, and originally debuted as the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) with Asus' Xbox Ally devices. "Some players in select markets will be able […] Read more ›
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The new regulations also require AV companies to respond to first responder calls within 30 seconds. Read more ›
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Wyndham believes AI tools will eventually bring relief to franchisee P&Ls, though not immediately across the board for all hotels. Read more ›
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Meta says it may be forced to pull Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from New Mexico if the attorney general gets his way. The state is demanding a host of changes that the company says are impossible to achieve. After winning a $375 million jury award against Meta in a trial that argued the company misled […] Read more ›
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MCP-серверы не умеют в авторизацию, n8n не умеет в per-user токены, а OAuth-клиенты говорят на разных диалектах. Рассказываем, как один Auth Proxy перед FastMCP Gateway закрыл все три проблемы — и почему в итоге бот переехал на LangGraph Архитектура, грабли и код Read more ›
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A Louisiana lawyer apologized for errors in filings. He disclosed the tool he uses, and that company said they are not responsible. Read more ›
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Listed AI and advanced analytics startup Fractal is overhauling its operations. In a filing with the exchanges yesterday, the company… Read more ›
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The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: […] Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further back than ever, releasing "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" along with other documentation and notes from its developer. Today's source release is so... Read more ›
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Two months into the US-Iran war, the fighting has hardened into a standoff, with no end in sight. Both countries claim to have the upper hand, but there is only one clear winner so far — and it isn’t either of them. “China’s watching this war very closely,” James Palmer, deputy editor of Foreign Policy […] Read more ›
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'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' brings back several characters from Peter Jackson's trilogy, but at least one won't be played by the original actor. Read more ›
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It is generally frowned upon to care too much about appearances. We have a lot of little aphorisms discouraging this - books and their covers, beauty being skin deep, style over substance, that sort of thing. Vanity is a risk. Should one put a disproportionate effort into how a thing looks, then said work may […] Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday that a lot more people were heavily using the company’s AI-powered applications. But his company’s first quarter financial results showed the usage was dragging down profit margins in its cloud unit, prompting Microsoft to effectively boost prices. Read more ›
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Auto SR brings AI-powered upscaling to the ROG Xbox Ally X without asking developers to do anything; it works at the OS level across DirectX 11 and 12 titles. Read more ›
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Users of Grok, the AI chatbot operated by SpaceX subsidiary xAI, reported widespread outages on Thursday. Outages were especially common in New York, Illinois and California, according to the tracking site DownDetector. While it’s unclear exactly how widespread the outages are, many Grok users ... Read more ›
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Steve Molloy, a chip industry veteran who has spent the past seven years at Google, recently joined Amazon in the newly-created position of vice president of AI silicon, according to an Amazon spokesperson. Molloy’s hiring shows how Amazon is bringing in experienced chip design veterans to help ... Read more ›
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We’re in a tech layoff era again—although a more accurate term may be an “employee replacement” phase. Meta Platforms told staff on Thursday it plans to lay off 10% of its staff, or about 8,000 people, next month. (The next few weeks won’t be fun at Meta!) The latest layoffs follow Meta’s cuts of about 2,000 people earlier this year and a spate of such cuts elsewhere at Snap, Amazon... Read more ›
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Elon Musk may be the busiest dealmaker right now. This Tuesday, his SpaceX rocket company said it had an option to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion. That would be the biggest venture-backed acquisition—other than SpaceX’s February purchase of his startup, xAI, for what Musk has said was a $250 billion valuation.Outside the Musk-verse, by contrast, tech bankers have been complaining about how slow dealmaking is—particularly in software, where... Read more ›
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Weeks before Cursor agreed to a $60 billion potential takeover from SpaceX, the hot AI coding startup set out to raise billions of dollars. As its leaders made the rounds among tech’s largest investors, they started to hear an unfamiliar message: No, thanks. Many investment firms usually capable of writing the largest checks into startups, including Iconiq and other late-stage tech investors, had just invested billions of dollars into OpenAI... Read more ›
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AI coding startup Cursor, which recently agreed to a potential $60 billion acquisition by SpaceX, last month hit $2.7 billion in annualized revenue, 14 times higher than that revenue pace a year ago, The Information reported Thursday. Some investors expected annualized revenue to hit more ... Read more ›
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DeepSeek on Friday launched V4, its highly anticipated new series of open-source AI models with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities. This is the first new-generation model that DeepSeek released since its R1 model became a global sensation in January 2025. DeepSeek announced two new ... Read more ›
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AI startups are struggling to access Nvidia graphics processing units as Microsoft and other cloud providers divert GPU stockpiles to their internal teams or bigger cloud customers, leaving smaller firms scrambling for the remaining servers at higher prices. The supply crunch is impacting well-funded AI startups that have raised money from Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and other major investment firms, according to founders and investors... Read more ›
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The Canadian AI lab Cohere will acquire the German AI lab Aleph Alpha for an undisclosed price, the companies said Friday. Schwarz Group, the German investment firm that is one of Aleph Alpha’s biggest backers, will also invest $600 million in Cohere’s upcoming Series E funding round, the ... Read more ›
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Intel shares jumped 25% on Friday in the wake of the company’s first quarter earnings report, which showed the all-important data center and AI revenue rising 22%, lifting overall revenue 7%. Intel projected second quarter revenue would rise as much as 14.7%. Intel, once the leading chip maker, ... Read more ›
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