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Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire developer tools startup Stainless for at least $300 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
The four-year-old Stainless sells software to model makers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google that helps developers, non-technical people and AI agents more quickly access AI models. Such software has been in particular demand as AI agents—such as Claude Code and OpenClaw—become a more popular way to automate tasks.
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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 charitable foundation tied to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, has agreed to rent Nvidia graphics processing units from CoreWeave, which it plans to donate to artificial intelligence developers, according to Nvidia’s annual report. The Huang Foundation has donated $108 ... Read more ›
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Madison and Spencer Huang, the daughter and son of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, have quietly become rising forces inside the world’s most valuable company—and their paychecks reflect it. Madison, a senior director of product marketing, earned $1.2 million last year, according to Nvidia’s annual ... Read more ›
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Paul Bettany returns as the onetime Avenger in Marvel's second 'WandaVision' spin-off. Read more ›
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In our head-to-head comparison article, the Samsung Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S26+ traded blows – well, “blows” may be too strong a word considering how similarly the two performed. And as we noted in that article, the older 2025 Plus is cheaper. Right now, Amazon US has a 256GB Galaxy S25+ at $700 – that’s $300 less than when the phone launched. Meanwhile, the S26+ got a price hike and... Read more ›
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South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens." That is because, Mr Kim argued, the economic gains... Read more ›
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China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's investments in Helion Energy, Cerebras, and other companies were shown in trial on Tuesday. Read more ›
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It’s Tuesday, May 12, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s funding rounds highlight where investors believe the next wave of technological leverage will emerge: AI drug discovery, autonomous defense systems, crypto compliance infrastructure, ... Read more ›
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Google is giving the mouse pointer a Gemini-powered upgrade on Googlebook, allowing users to point, speak, and get help across the desktop without writing detailed prompts. Read more ›
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Sandisk open sources SPRandom, reducing SSD pre-conditioning time from days to hours depending on drive capacity and deployment requirements. Read more ›
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Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the NBA. It grew monthly revenue tenfold in 12 months. It pledged 10 million pounds to Scottish AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Google DeepMind employees in the U.K. sent a letter to management asking Google to voluntarily recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the AI research unit’s U.K.-based staff. The letter, sent Tuesday, is the first official step toward possible ... Read more ›
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News this week about private equity firms’ new joint ventures with OpenAI and Anthropic came at the right time for PE giants: just as they were about to sit down with their investors for days of meetings at the annual Milken Institute conference. The AI partnerships put the slew of PE firms involved—in Anthropic’s case, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Apollo, and, in OpenAI’s case, TPG, Bain Capital and Advent,... Read more ›
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OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman said that Elon Musk does not understand artificial intelligence, testifying Tuesday in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. “Look, he knows rockets. He knows electric cars. He did not—and I believe does not—know AI,” Brockman said. His comment responded to ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is building a consumer version of the AI agent OpenClaw and a new agentic shopping tool, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company is training the OpenClaw-inspired agent, internally called “Hatch,” with the goal of internal testing by the end of June, one of the ... Read more ›
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Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google’s AI models, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The discussions follow the establishment of two separate companies set up by Anthropic and OpenAI and ... Read more ›
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AI server chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that its revenue growth would accelerate eight percentage points to 46% in the current quarter, after rising 38% to $10.3 billion in the first quarter. Shares rose 16% in after-hours trading. Sales of AMD’s AI graphics processing units are ... Read more ›
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China’s national artificial intelligence fund is in talks to invest in DeepSeek in a funding round that is now expected to value the company at more than 300 billion yuan ($44 billion), according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer ... Read more ›
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Four years after its was exiled from the U.S., Polymarket was desperate to get back into the country. To make that happen, the prediction market bought a derivative and futures exchange that had just gotten a U.S. license and hired its chief executive, Justin Hertzberg, to run Polymarket U.S. Hertzberg appears to be CEO in name only. His main job for Polymarket appears to be signing U.S. regulatory documents. The... Read more ›
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In recent months, a lot of discussion has centered around the rising costs of AI, with even large, sophisticated public companies like Uber blowing through their 2026 AI budgets in a matter of months.Even venture capitalists are feeling the pain. One partner at a large fund told me that they previously gave five of their staffers enterprise Claude accounts to help them with their work. In recent weeks, those usage-based... Read more ›
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