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Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general […]
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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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Platforms like YouTube and TikTok are navigating the fine line between a fine line between embracing AI and low-quality, machine-generated content. Read more ›
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RTO mandates cite ad-hoc worker collaboration, but workers seem to be turning to AI to answer their questions instead. Read more ›
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The company reportedly plans to team up with Klarna, turning the rising cost of its hardware into another monthly bill. Read more ›
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Who says software is dead? Jack Dorsey’s Block today unveiled a new “collaboration workspace”—software people can use to communicate and work together—which Dorsey says aims to reduce “our dependency on Slack and GitHub.” That’s a bit of a provocative statement from Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter and therefore knows a thing or two about communication platforms (even if he was a dismal CEO of Twitter). Known as Buzz, the new... Read more ›
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It was reportedly an evaluation that went haywire involving GPT-5.6 Sol, along with another even more advanced OpenAI model. Read more ›
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NASA researchers also tested out the Psyche spacecraft’s other instruments to make sure they were working. Read more ›
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A new bill would ban phone calls on flights. Former flight attendants say it would be good for passengers and crew. Read more ›
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Nintendo argues in a court filing that customers willingly paid the higher prices for consoles and accessories, and aren’t owed any money back. Read more ›
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Anthropic today said Claude Code for desktop has been updated to work with the iOS Simulator, with the integration available in public beta. Claude Code can open in-progress apps in the iOS Simulator pane when it's instructed to build, run, or check an app. Claude can watch the iOS Simulator live as it runs, interact with it, and then iterate until a project is finished. Developers can continue to use... Read more ›
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Working on tight automotive or DIY projects? Discover the five best mini Pittsburgh tools at Harbor Freight that deliver huge utility for pennies. Read more ›
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Today Google is launching its newest Gemini models. Gemini 3.6 Flash is described by the company as its "workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance". It's supposed to be more efficient and better quality than its predecessor. Google boasts that customers "have found it particularly capable at multimodal tasks like document parsing, chart and data analysis, and report drafting". Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is "designed for both... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, check out our story from earlier today about Mercor. My colleague Cory and I reported that Mercor generated $614 million in gross revenue in the first half of this year, overwhelmingly from AI foundation model customers. That concentration highlights the risk to Mercor’s business if any of the big AI firms, which include OpenAI and Anthropic, switch to a rival.Of course, Mercor’s co-founders are... Read more ›
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For companies in the life sciences industry, medical communications is a core pillar for sharing clinical trial updates and connecting with peers. Because these materials require strict accuracy and academic rigor, biopharma companies have historically relied on specialized external agencies. This traditional approach guarantees expert messaging but often results in slow turnaround times and high ... Read more ›
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French startup Celeste Ecoflyers is developing an inflatable drone capable of 10-hour flights, a 500-mile range, and compact transport inside cars. Read more ›
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Adam Candeub authored a Project 2025 chapter calling for a sweeping shake-up of US competition enforcement Read more ›
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Stripe and Advent International have offered $60.50 a share in cash for PayPal, a bid that values the payments company at more than $53bn and arrives backed by about $50bn in committed financing from banks, according to Reuters. The buyers would hold equal stakes in the business and, unusually for a proposal with a private […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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High NA EUV was supposed to debut on Intel’s 14A node towards the end of the decade. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools. A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Judge Noël Wise issued the order late on Monday. The dismissal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China’s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2016, according to customs data released on 14 July. Five months into the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Beijing is buying less oil than at any point in a decade. Some of the slack is being […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg. It surfaced the day before OpenAI’s actual first shipping […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple’s shelves and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper. The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as a hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, Reuters reported on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry. It ranks the worst, then coordinates fixes across US critical infrastructure. The pitch for AI-written malware is that it moves at machine speed. Washington has now […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet. The prime minister used a speech at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a mission. Anthropic’s read like a threat assessment. The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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