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Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, still has to prove it can produce electricity to serve data centers and other customers. But investors seem confident it can deliver.
The Everett, Wash.–based company said it has raised $465 million in a funding round led by Thrive Capital, the investment firm founded by Josh Kushner, a big backer of OpenAI. Helion’s valuation after the investment was $15.5 billion, nearly triple the company’s $5.43 billion valuation during its prior ro
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Farday Future hasn't quite given up on EVs, but it's now also pitching a lineup of robots, including humanoids and a quadruped with an optional canine heads. Read more ›
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Trase Systems, a three-year-old startup that sells AI to healthcare and federal government customers like the U.S. Navy, has raised a $107 million seed round led by Chicago-based ARCH Venture Partners, according to a company spokesperson. Trase is part of an emerging segment of tech firms that ... Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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GeekBook M16 combines MacBook-inspired design, Intel Core Ultra 9 performance, a large battery, and budget pricing under $800. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has... Read more ›
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OpenAI has hired Amazon Web Services veteran Chris Grusz to serve as managing director of cloud partnerships, a role that involves working with the startup’s cloud provider and software partners. Grusz, whose recently updated LinkedIn profile reflects his new role, spent nearly 11 years at AWS ... Read more ›
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Amazon's Zoox unveiled an upgraded robotaxi design as it prepares to ramp production to 100 vehicles a week and expand service in the US. Read more ›
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Сделать рекламный баннер с помощью нейросети сегодня пытается почти каждый, однако на практике этот процесс часто превращается в бесконечную борьбу с «галлюцинациями» моделей и безуспешные попытки добиться от них корректного текста. Еще относительно недавно мы воспринимали генеративный арт как любопытную игрушку, а сегодня это уже полноценный рабочий инструмент, который либо кардинально сокращает время на прототипирование, либо заставляет часами исправлять артефакты, пытаясь «причесать» результат под станда Read more ›
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Democratic socialists won big in New York’s primaries Tuesday, as two members of the Democratic Socialists of America defeated the Democratic establishment choices in congressional primaries, and several more triumphed in state legislative primaries. The victories suggested that DSA member Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City last year wasn’t a fluke. Democratic […] Read more ›
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After reassigning 7,000 employees into AI initiatives, Meta is now offering some engineers a path to transfer elsewhere. Read more ›
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This was what you call an ugly day in the markets. Tech stocks sold off across the board, thanks to rising expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. SpaceX stock fell nearly 5%, dragging it back below Amazon in market capitalization. But SpaceX, at least, is coming off a big rally. Software stocks such as Microsoft, Salesforce and ServiceNow also tumbled between 4% and 5%—and they’ve already been... Read more ›
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Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday. Shazeer left Google in 2021 to co-found a chatbot startup Character.AI, but rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal with his AI startup. He then became a tech lead on Gemini, Google’s core AI model, and made key contributions to... Read more ›
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AI image generation company Midjourney on Wednesday launched the first of its long-awaited hardware projects: a full-body scanner for detecting diseases and other health issues. The company’s founder and CEO David Holz claimed the machine is more detailed than an MRI. Midjourney has spent years ... Read more ›
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The early Chinese backers of AI firm Manus are planning to buy the firm back from Meta Platforms at the $2 billion price Meta paid, in response to a Chinese government order that the deal be reversed, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. While the government’s order has sparked alarm among Chinese startup founders, seemingly cutting off the U.S. as an avenue for fundraising or sale,... Read more ›
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After the success of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent software that took the tech world by storm earlier this year, it’s no surprise that copycats are popping up. And some of these copycats are catching up to OpenClaw, by some measures.Hermes, an agent tool from Nous Research, recently eclipsed OpenClaw in terms of new GitHub contributors in the last 30 days, according to GitHub data compiled by ClawCharts, which tracks... Read more ›
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Amazon’s status as the home of independent merchants is eroding. The e-commerce giant has lately overhauled its shopping site to give big brands more control over how their products are displayed and sold. The company recently told them it would give them priority over independent merchants in deciding how their products are described on its website. That’s important because many independent merchants sell big-brand products. Read more ›
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would establish a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund that would provide the American public with a 50% ownership stake in the top AI companies. “What this bill does is not complicated,” he said during a press briefing on Thursday. “It ... Read more ›
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When a group of tech companies announce an agreement to support an AI backend-software protocol, we don’t blame corporate IT executives for not paying attention. It sounds quite boring.But one such announcement on Wednesday from Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, ServiceNow and others is worth paying attention to. It demonstrates one way established enterprise software providers may parlay their large customer base into an AI business that won’t be decimated by... Read more ›
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One day last fall, my third-grade son came home and proudly announced that he had watched YouTube at school. I was miffed, wondering what the teachers were doing while they plopped the kids in front of a screen. “Don’t worry, Mom,” my son said. “We watched Mark Rober.” I felt a little better. I was familiar with Rober’s highly engaging science experiments, and The Information had profiled his booming creator... Read more ›
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Prediction market Kalshi is generating more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, as traders betting on NBA and World Cup games drove a surge in trading volume, according to people familiar with the company’s financials. Kalshi’s fast growth has led its top executives to hold informal conversations with investment banks about an eventual public offering. The eight-year-old startup wants banks seeking to advise it... Read more ›
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