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If you wander into the Manhattan office of AI startup Basis on a workday, you’ll see most of its 100 or so staffers whispering quietly into gooseneck microphones at their desks. They aren’t taking phone calls or talking with other humans at all. They’re speaking softly to their AI agents and chatbots. Such whispering has become a common sight at firms working at the bleeding edge of the field. Speed is one reason.Typing commands to the agents is often slower than speaking to them, employees at Basis and oth
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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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Roku is rolling out a major home screen update today, introducing AI-powered personalization, new genre-based destinations, Quick Access, Top Picks for You, and a collapsible menu across all devices in the US. Read more ›
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Square Enix has rebooted its next mainline entry in the Dragon Quest series, which is now called Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams. Read more ›
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Having a scannable code may help improve conversions for your business. While QR codes were initially created to bypass the limitations of 1D barcodes, their emergence as a way for mobile devices to access additional information would reshape the way many companies do business. Short for quick-response codes, QR codes offer customers a way to access more […] Read more ›
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Former Microsoft executive Sangeeta Bavi has joined AI startup Anthropic as head of sales, digital natives and startups in India… Read more ›
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io_uring продавали как убийцу epoll. На деле на HTTP keep-alive разница 0-15%, иногда не в его пользу. Но на NVMe с queue depth 128 - в 3 раза быстрее. Честный разбор с бенчмарками, реальными граблями (SQPOLL, cancel race, partial recv) и почему Google отключил io_uring в ChromeOS. Читать далее Read more ›
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Motorola says that recently discovered behavior, which saw some of its phones sending users to an affiliate tracking website before opening the Amazon app, was "unintended" and has been "promptly corrected." The company didn't explain how the error was introduced in the first place. "Recently, Motorola acted quickly to resolve an issue that was identified, […] Read more ›
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Investor and former chief revenue officer Chris Degnan said the forward-deployed engineer is a "glorified professional services person." Read more ›
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Even without E3, the transition from spring to summer is a busy time for the gaming industry. Summer Game Fest is right around the corner, and Sony is kicking things off with a State of Play on June 2nd with an extended look at Insomniac’s upcoming Wolverine game. To mark the occasion, Sony is also hosting […] Read more ›
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This 200% tax will make it more expensive to build in rural areas and is aimed at spurring data center development in disused industrial zones instead. Read more ›
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Backrooms is finally on the big screen and I think long term fans of the horror legend will be very pleased indeed. Read more ›
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Enterprises are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, yet a surprising amount of that money is being burned on the same computation over and over again. That inefficiency sits at the center of Tensormesh’s pitch. The AI infrastructure startup announced Wednesday ... Read more ›
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In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, and then use it to display proof of identity or age at select airports and businesses, and in select apps. Starting today, the feature is available in Arkansas, which is the 14th state to offer it. However, it may take some time to roll out to... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s foundation will grant $250 million in funding to promote research into the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy and jobs, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. The company’s charitable arm was separated from OpenAI’s for-profit business last fall as part of a ... Read more ›
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Shortly after Huawei brought to light its new scaling law called Tao Scaling Law and its LogicFolding architecture, the company held a keynote at the Phoenix Bay Area Finance Forum and Financial Summit in Shenzhen, promising to bring a much more powerful, next-generation Kirin chipset that will power the upcoming Mate 90 lineup. The chip in question is said to be the first mobile chip for the company built on... Read more ›
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These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget. Read more ›
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As outdoor setups grow more complex, power solutions are evolving to keep pace There was a time when heading outdoors meant packing light and unplugging completely. That version of outdoor life still exists, but it no longer reflects how many people actually spend their time outside. Today’s setups often include cameras, drones, laptops, mobile internet, […] Read more ›
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I discovered that adding one simple instruction to ChatGPT prompts made its advice feel less idealized and much more useful for everyday life Read more ›
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Accor had a mandatory retirement policy, so the “succession search” is the news here. A shift in shareholder sentiment is also notable, with more than 40% voting against Sébastian Bazin's pay. Read more ›
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The recent bankruptcy of Parker, a corporate card startup that catered to e-commerce customers, is a good reminder that lending is one of the toughest ways to make money in fintech. Parker had been among the dwindling number of standalone, tech-heavy lenders geared toward small businesses that first sprung up during the fintech funding boom. These startups often adopted a common playbook of zeroing in on a subset of small... Read more ›
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OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. The filing could potentially speed up the offering for the pioneer of conversational artificial intelligence, accelerating a race with rival Anthropic to reach public ... Read more ›
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The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director hosted a briefing Tuesday for companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Reflection AI on a planned executive order on AI that will empower intelligence and other government agencies to review advanced models before the models are released, according to people familiar with the matter. President Donald Trump could sign the order as soon as Thursday, the people said. Representatives of cloud providers,... Read more ›
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Fintech startup Mercury said it raised $200 million at a $5.2 billion valuation shortly after receiving conditional approval from regulators for a bank license. The neobank, led by CEO and co-founder Immad Akhund, drew investment from TCV and existing venture firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, ... Read more ›
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Nvidia’s revenue grew 85% to $81.6 billion in the three months that ended April 26, the company said Wednesday. That’s 12 percentage points higher than the blistering growth the AI chip designer reported in the January quarter. It also projected revenue would grow 95% in the current fiscal ... Read more ›
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Intuit shares dropped around 14% in extended trading on Wednesday as the maker of QuickBooks and TurboTax reported revenue growth dipping to its slowest pace since 2024. Revenue in the fiscal third quarter, which ended April 30, climbed 10% from the previous year to $8.6 billion, much less than ... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s long-awaited public offering paperwork revealed fresh details about its unlikely partnership with Anthropic that are representative of the overall IPO story for Elon Musk’s company: Enormous potential, with risks everywhere. The company said Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to rent capacity from both of its supersized data centers in Memphis, called Colossus and Colossus II. That deal, which would be worth about $40 billion through... Read more ›
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Anthropic could pay SpaceX up to $40 billion over the next several years to use compute from data centers, but either company has the power to call off the deal early, SpaceX revealed when it filed for an initial public offering on Wednesday. SpaceX is receiving $1.25 billion per month from ... Read more ›
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SpaceX showed a deteriorating financial profile in the first quarter after it absorbed xAI and prepared to go public. The company lost $4.3 billion in the quarter that ended in March, while generating $4.7 billion in revenue. Its revenue growth slowed to about 15% in the quarter, compared ... Read more ›
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Nvidia, wow. The AI chip giant did it again, delivering better than projected 85% revenue growth for its April quarter, the first in its 2027 fiscal year. Even better, Nvidia forecast 95% growth for the second quarter. Its fiscal 2027 is shaping up to be a firecracker, with sharply faster growth than last year’s still-stellar 66% rate of expansion. Nvidia is also printing cash: Free cash flow in the quarter... Read more ›
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