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The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including the new money, according to two people familiar with the talks.
The financing would add to the $600 million already invested in the funding round by Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, which the exchange announced last month without disclosing the valuation. It’s looking to add additional strategic investors beyond Intercontinental Exc
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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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The Brave browser "has introduced Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its browser that removes built-in monetization features like Rewards and other extras tied to its business model," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli" The stripped-down browser is available either as a separate browser download or as an upgrade to the existing Brave install, unlocked through a one-time purchase that can be activated across multiple devices. The idea is simple on paper:... Read more ›
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China plans stricter rules for AI “digital humans,” balancing emotional use cases like grief support with concerns around consent, deception, and misuse. Read more ›
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Today we have with us the new Apple AirPods Max 2 headphones. This is the newest generation of Apple’s flagship audio product, and promises some notable improvements to its performance over its predecessors, while still remaining largely familiar. That’s right, predecessors. The AirPods Max 2 is the third product in the series, as there is also the non-demarcated model Apple released back in 2024 that replaced the Lightning port on... Read more ›
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Financial institutions must move from reactive defence to predictive technology to combat the criminals Read more ›
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If you have a green thumb and you're looking for tools to expand your craft, Harbor Freight has some nifty ideas for you. Here are some of our favorites. Read more ›
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After years of maintaining draining friendships out of obligation, I discovered that the empty chair at my dinner table wasn't a sign of loneliness—it was the space I'd finally stopped filling with people who left me feeling smaller than when they arrived. Read more ›
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The Ace 6 Ultra doubled-up as a gaming handheld thanks to a snap-on controller with ultra-fast response times. Read more ›
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Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go. Read more ›
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They're not antisocial—they're operating on a frequency where every forced smile and "we should grab coffee sometime" registers as white noise, and they've realized that life's too short to keep adjusting the dial for people who will never truly tune in. Read more ›
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As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features that would make its AI assistant Copilot function more like OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has taken the AI industry by storm in recent months. A newly created team under Microsoft corporate vice president Omar Shahine is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context,” including a team of always-on agents... Read more ›
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Tether, the world’s biggest stablecoin issuer, has hired Jeremy Pollack, most recently vice president of Kinexys by JPMorgan, the bank’s blockchain business unit, to be its institutional expansion manager. Based in New York City, Pollack will build institutional partnerships to promote the usage ... Read more ›
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AI developers are getting more creative in how they acquire data to train AI models. For instance, they’re paying startups to develop copies of popular apps, like Salesforce or Excel, to teach models how to use the apps—otherwise known as reinforcement learning environments or gyms.One beneficiary of this trend is Fleet, a two-year-old startup that develops and sells those RL environments. The startup is now in talks to raise at... Read more ›
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An OpenAI executive said in a memo to staff Sunday that the company is seeing “staggering” demand for its upcoming joint product with AWS and that its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft had “limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are,” CNBC reported Monday. As one of OpenAI’s ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is playing catch-up in the AI power race by grabbing big sites in Texas and West Virginia for data centers fired by natural gas. It wasn’t long ago that the company had a big lead.In the early days of the AI boom, Microsoft’s in-house energy team amassed a 9-gigawatt war chest of grid-powered data center sites that was the envy of the industry, according to people with knowledge of... Read more ›
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AI firms’ voracious appetite for more data has lifted sales for obscure startups doing the industry’s unglamorous work: contracting with lawyers, PhD holders and medical doctors who grade the answers AI models generate. The latest is Handshake, a 12-year-old startup that began as a job site for college graduates. Handshake’s gross annualized revenue from AI training has risen to nearly $1 billion, up from $550 million in January and $5... Read more ›
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Dell and HP shares fell about 3% after hours Monday after Nvidia denied a report from website SemiAccurate that claimed the chip giant had been negotiating a deal for more than a year to acquire a large company that makes personal computers. The report didn’t identify the company but Dell and ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab has hired Rudolf Laine and Luke Drago, the co-founders Workshop Labs, a one-year-old startup that develops software for personalizing AI systems, and has bought the startup’s technology, according to a spokesperson for Thinking Machines. The price of the deal was not ... Read more ›
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A new set of numbers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX makes it clear that the success of its potential initial public offering will depend on investors embracing the growth of the company’s Starlink satellite internet business. The other two businesses inside SpaceX—rocket launches and AI—are burning cash and not generating the kind of growth that makes investors willing to pay the staggering valuation Musk is seeking, according to previously unreported financial... Read more ›
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The mysteries of SpaceX are no more. My colleague Cory Weinberg today wrote the second of two stories in four days that pulled back the curtain on the finances of Elon Musk’s space company, which is planning to go public in a couple of months. You don’t have to wait for the formal IPO filing to get the dirt on SpaceX.The bottom line is that SpaceX as a whole is... Read more ›
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