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Some of the biggest backers of OpenAI and its rivals are pooling their money in an offshoot of Thrive Capital that buys controlling stakes in accounting and other services firms and aims to transform them with AI.
Thrive Holdings, a one-year-old holding company started by OpenAI investor Thrive Capital, is raising around $2 billion from investors including Altimeter, D1 Capital Partners and SoftBank, according to a person familiar with the fundraising. It’s the first time outside investors have put money i
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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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Amazon Prime Day is here and the retailer has discounted a wide range of Garmin products, including record-low prices on top-rated wearables and dashcams. Read more ›
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It’s Monday, July 6, 2026. Following the July 4 holiday weekend in the U.S., venture funding announcements were lighter than usual, but the deals that did emerge reveal where investors continue to place their biggest bets. Capital is concentrating where ... Read more ›
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We’ve rounded up the best Amazon Prime Day deals under AU$100 we’d actually buy, and you can grab big discounts on favourites like speakers, power banks, fitness trackers and more. Read more ›
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With models to suit all styles and all budgets, Prime Day is a prime time to upgrade your audio. Read more ›
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Looking to switch up your plan to something more economical? Mint Mobile's latest deal gets you a full year of unlimited data for just $15/mo. Read more ›
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Most people start every ChatGPT conversation from zero. Here’s how to work smart. Read more ›
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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the court let a 5th Circuit order stand without explanation or noted dissents. CNN notes that the Supreme Court's decision "doesn't resolve the case but rather will allow Texas to... Read more ›
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The annual Amazon sale can often be relied upon for excellent savings on a huge range of coffee machines, and this year's sale is no different. Read more ›
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Travel apps inside AI chatbots are starting to look like real referral channels. The catch, Skift's testing found: A brand can be connected and still get skipped. Read more ›
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XAI has rebranded to SpaceXAI, debuting a new logo and X handle. Elon Musk previously said the Grok maker would be folded into SpaceX. Read more ›
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Food has evolved from an occasional workplace perk into a strategic business tool. As organizations look to improve employee engagement and streamline operations, platforms like ezCater are helping bring greater visibility, control, and efficiency to workplace food ordering. Read more ›
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Most states have laws against driving slow in the left lane, but one state that previously had an exception for semi trucks is now reversing course. Read more ›
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Microsoft Office 2019 files will soon enter a "reduced functionality mode", becoming read-only. Read more ›
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Now that Prime Day 2026 is here, there are some record-low discounts on top-rated vacuum cleaners of all kinds — from stick vacs to robovacs, even corded or handheld. Read more ›
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The White House says it's still evaluating the "best structure" for the federal fund to hold bitcoin as a long-term reserve and a separate stockpile of other crypto assets. Read more ›
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In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Walmart would reduce the price of a pound of ground beef by "almost" 15%. Read more ›
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Weeks after TechStartups revealed how one company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude AI in a single month, new research suggests runaway token bills are only part of the enterprise AI cost equation. In late May, TechStartups reported on an ... Read more ›
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Uber and Alphabet’s Waymo ended their ride-hailing partnership in Phoenix a month ago, according to an Uber spokesperson. The split, first reported by Techcrunch, raises questions about the long-term future of the relationship between the two companies, which both collaborate and compete with ... Read more ›
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Do the folks at crypto holding firm Strategy know the old adage that one should buy low and sell high? Strategy revealed today a plan to sell some of its vast stock of bitcoin, even as the cryptocurrency is hovering around its lowest point in two years. The current price of around $60,000 is 20% below the average price Strategy has paid for its pile of bitcoin, now worth about... Read more ›
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The Defense Department named venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to the board of a policy committee that provides “independent strategic advice and recommendations” to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top department officials. Blake Masters, a former Senate candidate who previously served ... Read more ›
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AI video startup Higgsfield AI is in talks with investors to raise $300 million to $500 million at a valuation of $5 billion before the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the fundraising efforts. A valuation at that level would be more than four times its valuation in a funding round in January, signaling demand for startups that train and customize models to generate images and videos from... Read more ›
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Taiwanese prosecutors on Monday raided Super Micro Computer’s offices, investigating alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips into China through the company’s servers, according to Bloomberg. Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office searched the homes of six people and the sites of three ... Read more ›
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Newly launched AI infrastructure firm Helix Infrastructure Partners is jumping into the AI build-out race, joining a growing group of private equity investors trying to bring new data center space to hyperscalers while demand is still red hot. Helix, backed by investing giant KKR, Nvidia and others and led by former Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky, wants to move quickly by buying an existing data center company that develops... Read more ›
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We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don’t talk enough about the work these companies are doing to get more juice from the servers they already have.In one previously unreported example, OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference, or running... Read more ›
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Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase and BlackRock are joining a partnership with over 140 firms to launch a new stablecoin, called Open USD, which will aim to challenge the dominance of Circle and Tether. Circle’s stock fell 14% on Tuesday after the announcement, which confirms an earlier report ... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services said it would invest $1 billion to create a unit of consultants with the title of forward deployed engineers, which would help business customers use AI. Francessca Vasquez, vice president of AWS’ Frontier AI Engineering and Services, said in an interview that the FDEs will ... Read more ›
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Salesforce and Microsoft may be worried about threats posed by AI upstarts like Anthropic to their core enterprise apps, but they’re taking a conciliatory approach.Even though the two incumbents sell proprietary AI agents that can be used inside their Slack and Teams messaging apps, for instance, they’ve decided the apps ought to be a “platform” or app store for any AI agents their customers might want, including Anthropic’s Claude. A... Read more ›
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