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If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the explosion of data labeling and reinforcement learning environment startups with a mix of confusion and awe. These companies, which hire experts in fields like medicine, law and software engineering and build fake copies of apps like Salesforce and Excel to produce training data for AI models, are rapidly growing both in terms of revenue and valuations. But their moment in the sun may soon be about to pass.These startups seem to lack any sort of long-term defensibl
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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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Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta is making the strongest bull case in the hotel sector right now, and early U.S. industry data backs him up. But the Middle East and the World Cup remain open questions. Read more ›
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Major crypto exchanges and custodians including Coinbase and Binance are racing to prepare for powerful AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos, which the AI firm says could be dangerously good at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Coinbase, the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, has been in “close communication” with Anthropic about Mythos, “a highly restricted model not available to the public,” Coinbase Chief Security Officer Philip Martin said. “Mythos, and future models... Read more ›
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Roborock has taken all the things that were great about this model's predecessor and sprinkled some nifty extra features on top. Read more ›
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Rakuten Pay users will also be able to spot trade XRP via the Rakuten Pay app and exchange the Japanese e-commerce giant’s points to purchase Ripple’s token Read more ›
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A slow computer doesn't always need new hardware. A few targeted changes can improve speed, responsiveness, and day-to-day performance fast. Read more ›
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A fake Mac app designed to look like the real thing snuck past Apple's app review team, costing users $9.5 million in cryptocurrency. According to CoinDesk, a fake macOS version of the Ledger Live crypto wallet app scammed people into handing over access to their cryptocurrency wallets. More than 50 people fell victim to the fake app between April 7 and April 13. Ledger has an official Mac app, but... Read more ›
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DoorDash has tied its brand to a very unpopular president, for seemingly no benefit. Read more ›
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At $200, they're pricey if all you want is a basic wired model. But the open-back design has its benefits. Read more ›
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Amazon is offering Prime Video subscribers a way to get Apple TV Plus and Peacock Premium Plus at a discount. With a new bundle, subscribers can access all content from both services directly through Prime Video. The bundle includes both streaming services for $19.99 per month, as opposed to the total $29.98 per month it […] Read more ›
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Intelligent banking solutions provider nCino has revealed that its new AI agent, Analyst Digital Partner, is reducing commercial credit review times by up to 70 per cent. The technology is enabling banks to shift from periodic assessments to continuous portfolio monitoring, rapidly reshaping industry credit risk management. Read more ›
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Apple's MacBook Pro sets the bar for battery life, but these Windows laptops push it even further with surprising endurance and efficiency. Read more ›
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Treating the sound of your space has often involved ugly, permanently mounted panels, but no longer! Read more ›
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The team that helps operate the platform, CoW Swap, said that it was working to resolve the issue for the DEX aggregator. Read more ›
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Built with Fnatic and powered by LG's latest tandem OLED technology, Sony's new INZONE M10S II redefines what a competitive gaming monitor can look, feel, and perform like. Read more ›
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Google has launched Skills in Chrome, a new feature that lets you save Gemini prompts as reusable one-click tools and run them across multiple tabs without retyping anything Read more ›
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Nearly two dozen Samsung phones and tablets are now more expensive. And this is just the beginning. Read more ›
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices, saying the tech giant fails to notify users before handing over their data to law enforcement agencies like ICE. "For nearly a decade, Google has promised billions of users that it will notify […] Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman on Tuesday played down the idea that Anthropic’s highly-praised Claude Code tool could undercut existing enterprise software companies. But Garman warned that if incumbent software firms try to “protect what they have and not lean in” to AI, “they’re in ... Read more ›
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Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it will be providing access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to more than 40 organizations, including Apple, JPMorgan Chase and the Linux Foundation, so they can test their software for security vulnerabilities. Anthropic says that Claude Mythos is ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk argued in a new legal filing that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman should be removed as officers of OpenAI’s nonprofit wing if Musk wins his lawsuit alleging OpenAI violated its charitable mission. While much of the recent activity in the lawsuit has focused on the ... Read more ›
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What could stop Anthropic now? The maker of the Claude chatbot said Monday it is generating more than $30 billion in annualized revenue, up from $19 billion about a month ago and more than triple its year-end level. At that pace, the company is on track to surpass its mid-December projection of $32 billion in annualized revenue by the end of this year—and could do so eight months early! In... Read more ›
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The sooner Anthropic and OpenAI go public, the better—at least then we’d have proper financial disclosure. Both companies’ habit of updating the public on their revenue growth by references to either monthly revenue or annualized revenue, which is (loosely speaking) the last month’s revenue multiplied by 12, is getting old. And it’s not exactly what investors need to know.Take Anthropic, which revealed Monday afternoon that it was now generating annualized... Read more ›
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Caylent, a consulting firm that helps Amazon Web Services customers adopt AI, has acquired Pronetx, another consulting firm that focuses on selling Amazon’s AI-powered contact center software, called Connect. The deal reflects the growing importance of Amazon Connect, which launched in 2017 and ... Read more ›
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Polygon Labs, developer of the blockchain that underpins prediction market Polymarket and other crypto platforms, is in early talks with investors to raise as much as $100 million to build a new stablecoin payments business, according to people familiar with the talks. The funding discussions come amid a nasty downturn in crypto. The new venture would be a way for Polygon to diversify out of a market that has stalled. Read more ›
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Alibaba Group senior executive Jingren Zhou, who is in charge of AI model development, will stop serving as Alibaba Cloud’s chief technology officer and concentrate on his AI role, according to an internal memo. In the latest reorganization, Alibaba also appointed Zhou the chief AI architect of ... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, my colleague Jyoti reported on the great lengths Meta Platforms engineers are going to show off their AI prowess. An employee-created leaderboard tracks who burns through the most AI tokens—part of a broader trend known as “tokenmaxxing.” The article has sparked a flurry of armchair analysis on how much this strategy could cost Meta (and potentially benefit Anthropic), such as here and here. The drive by companies... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using. The dashboard, which employees referred to as Claudeonomics, showed total usage over a recent 30-day period across the company amounted to over 60 trillion tokens, The Information ... Read more ›
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