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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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AI can't sell what hotel systems can't see. Until room-level data, guest behavior, and service pricing live in one connected system, the industry's AI gains will stay stuck on the cost efficiency side of the ledger. Read more ›
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Most media startups raise money first and figure out profitability later. 1440 took the opposite path. The newsletter company, which started in 2017 with an email sent to just 78 friends and family, has reached a $101 million valuation, a ... Read more ›
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Honda's E-Clutch may be pitched at motorcycle novices, but the aggressively-priced CBR650R makes a broader case than just being for beginners. Read more ›
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The convenience of contactless payments can already feel magical, but Cash App is really leaning into that with its latest accessory. The mobile payment service is launching the Cash App Wand: an NFC-enabled, iridescent, star-topped wand that allows users to make on-the-go payments without pulling out their phone or card. This plays on a popular […] Read more ›
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Most of Belkin's Switch 2 accessories are designed to either protect or power up Nintendo's latest handheld, like its Charging Case Pro that actually does both at the same time. Its new multitasking Charging Grip can also add three or four more hours of playtime through an included 10,000mAh battery pack, while improving the Switch […] Read more ›
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joshuark shares a report from The Verge: Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas' App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a new Apple account will need to verify they're... Read more ›
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I can't remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that's exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn't address the issues Microsoft is trying to fix in Windows 11 but chose to woo the audience with Microsoft's slick Surface RTX Spark Dev Kit instead, […] Read more ›
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Belkin's new Switch 2 charging grip lets you game longer and be more comfortable doing it. Read more ›
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Qualcomm has Snapdragon C to compete in the exciting low-cost laptop market, but it's also looking to build an entire agentic AI ecosystem on Qualcomm silicon. Read more ›
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You can tap the star-shaped, NFC-enabled wand at terminals to make contactless payments. It's the first of several tap-to-pay hardware doodads coming from Cash App. Read more ›
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Marshall's latest headphones are like its Major and Monitor models had a baby. Read more ›
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Спойлер: я не выпускник МФТИ, не олимпиадник и ненавидел программирование. У меня было 45 баллов ЕГЭ по математике, диплом инженера ПГУПС и стойкое ощущение, что в IT мне не светит ничего. Сейчас я Senior Data Scientist в крупном банке, а в 26/27 буду преподавать в ИТМО. В этой статье - как именно так получилось, и что нужно понять, чтобы не сидеть годами на одной работе за 100к, когда соседняя сфера... Read more ›
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Статья о том, почему не надо учить Redux и прочие внешние сторы За два года я ни разу не написал ни одного редьюсера Везде антипаттерны, да ? Read more ›
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Вышла недавно статья на Хабре, которая осталась незамеченной.Девушка, которая не шарит в программировании, навайбкодила телеграм-бота для практики английского. Бот буквально является оберткой над ChatGPT.Что не так с этой историей... Читать далее Read more ›
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The crypto veteran blamed macro risks and AI mania for taking profits, drawing backlash from traders for selling well below his recent bullish forecasts. Read more ›
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SpaceX is committed to renting its data center capacity to Anthropic for 180 days, though it could extend the deal for longer, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. The comment provides more detail than language in SpaceX’s recent public S-1 filing. That document, which SpaceX published last week ahead ... Read more ›
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Anthropic said Thursday it had raised $65 billion at a valuation of $900 billion before the financing, more than double the valuation in a round closed three months earlier. New investors Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix, which make a key component of AI chips, are investing in the model maker. The ... Read more ›
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Anthropic on Thursday announced its new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4.8, which showed improvements in standardized AI performance evaluations in coding, financial analysis and other fields. The company also said the model is more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to ... Read more ›
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On Wednesday, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill that will require major AI companies to submit their model safety plans for third-party audits, as well as creating whistleblower protections for those companies’ employees. While Governor JB Pritzker still has to sign the bill ... Read more ›
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Baseten’s talks to raise fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation are the latest sign that investors are betting the messy work of helping developers run AI models can become one of the next big businesses in AI. That boom has lifted a group of companies including Baseten, Fireworks AI, Together AI and Modal. These startups give customers access to GPU capacity and offer software that makes AI models easier... Read more ›
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Microsoft, Databricks, SAP and other AI software providers are fighting over control and access to enterprise data known as the semantic layer, as we reported last week. Semantic layers are essentially a data management tool that companies use to standardize definitions for their business metrics, such as revenue and customers, and are now enabling AI to work more accurately and efficiently inside enterprises.Retailer Lowe’s, for instance, recently began using its... Read more ›
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Customer demand for AI is pouring jet fuel on Dell’s server, storage and networking businesses, as its overall revenue grew 88% to $43.8 billion during its April quarter compared to last year, beating its earlier forecast by more than $8 billion. Excluding items, Dell reported earnings per share ... Read more ›
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Despite fears that advanced tools from Anthropic and OpenAI would soon make legal apps like Harvey and Legora irrelevant, recent revenue milestones at those startups suggest they are doing just fine. But a fresh assault on their business is brewing: Some law firms now want to develop their own AI apps with frontier model companies like Anthropic or OpenAI rather than just purchase apps from smaller legal startups. Kirkland &... Read more ›
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Greetings! Anita here. It’s been a relatively slow week for SpaceX news, but that will soon change. Musk’s rocketship company is expected to launch its investor roadshow next week ahead of a mid-June IPO. The milestone will likely usher in a flood of giddy headlines and a lot of debate on Reddit forums and cable TV on whether individual investors should buy in. The answer: It’ll make sense for day... Read more ›
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Base Power, a three-year-old home-battery startup, is in talks to raise funds at a $12 billion valuation, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Ribbit Capital, which backed Base Power’s last funding round, has been in talks to lead the current round, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. Founded by Venezuelan entrepreneur Micky Malka, Ribbit is a prominent venture firm known for its fintech bets... Read more ›
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