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Over the weekend, tech blogger Robert Scoble claimed Anthropic was in the process of acquiring Physical Intelligence, an AI robotics software developer that was most recently in talks to raise capital at a valuation of $11 billion. Scoble’s claim sent X into a frenzy.Scoble may not be right, as Physical Intelligence CEO Karol Hausman denied to employees that anything was afoot—in a slack message, he shared a gif of a character from The Office shaking her head ‘no,’ according to someone who saw the message..
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's... Read more ›
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BTC has rebounded 15% from the July lows, but some analysts cautioned that the next move hinges on clearing a level where many recent buyers may look to sell. Read more ›
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The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery was won by Paramount Skydance, which forced Netflix to drop out. The deal has however been put on hold by a judge. Twelve US state attorneys general requested a temporary restraining order to block Paramount Skydance from closing the deal, and US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of the Northern District of California granted the request. The deal is now effectively on hold for... Read more ›
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Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and $7.50 per one million output tokens through its application programming interface (API), while Gemini 3.5... Read more ›
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Hand developers a blank slate on travel's infrastructure, and they don't rebuild search. They go after the phone calls and broken connections travel never digitized — a clear sign on how new or external builders see travel AI's biggest pay-offs. Read more ›
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Apple Invites was updated today with two minor features related to RSVPing to an invite: hosts and guests can now react with emoji when someone replies to an event, and a confetti animation now appears when guests reply. Version 1.10 of the app also contains bug fixes and performance improvements, according to Apple. The update is available now in the App Store. Released for the iPhone in February 2025, the... Read more ›
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Guest column: Author Cory Doctorow explains how your boss’s love affair with AI is bad news for you — and your boss. Read more ›
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Should businesses worry about whether leading AI providers are using their corporate data to develop competing products? The AI providers’ rivals, including the CEOs of Microsoft, Salesforce and Palantir, seem to think soThe real threat is far more subtle, having more to do with the high-level usage data AI providers can collect and a loophole that involves customers voluntarily sharing their chats with chatbot creators. Read more ›
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IBM stock shed 25% on Tuesday, as the firm reported a shortfall in purchases of its mainframe computers resulting from customers shifting spending towards other hardware affected by AI-driven price increases. IBM said infrastructure revenue tied to sales of its mainframes, or supersized ... Read more ›
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On Tuesday, the White House announced the launch of the first program to come out of its early June executive order on AI cybersecurity. The initiative, dubbed Gold Eagle, is a clearinghouse composed of government agencies and companies that allows them to coordinate on cyber vulnerabilities and ... Read more ›
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Startups that make chips and related hardware smell cash in the air. Venture capitalists are more eager than they’ve been in years to fund these capital-intensive businesses, excited by Nvidia’s $20 billion Groq deal and signs other strategic buyers are circling. Founders are seizing the moment. Nuvacore, a startup focused on designing new central processing units that was founded by former Apple chip engineers, came out of stealth mode just... Read more ›
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Way to go, Demis Hassabis! The Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO won plaudits from much of the AI industry—including rivals OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Block co-founder Jack Dorsey and investors Ashton Kutcher and Chamath Palihapitiya—for proposing the creation of a new AI standards group funded by industry but working with government. Hassabis’ idea is that this new group could review frontier AI models to ensure they... Read more ›
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Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) and plot a potential public offering in Shanghai next year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The three-year-old startup’s annualized revenue reached between $400 million and $500 million recently thanks to sales of cloud-based access to its AI models through an application programming interface,... Read more ›
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DeepSeek’s annualized revenue reached between $400 million and $500 million recently, in a potential boost for the Chinese AI developer’s effort to raise its second funding round, The information reported. DeepSeek’s revenue growth, driven by sales of cloud-based access to its AI models, comes ... Read more ›
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Apple has received key approval in China that paves the way for the release of its Apple Intelligence on-device AI service in the country, as the Chinese internet regulator permitted the Apple AI service, along with six other services, under generative AI rules. Apple worked with Chinese ... Read more ›
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Cursor, the coding startup set to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion later this year, has been mapping out a major transformation. Michael Truell, Cursor’s CEO, told staff in a companywide meeting in May that the company aims to become a top-tier AI model developer, according to three people who heard the comments, a shift from its roots of specializing in coding. Cursor has also accelerated hiring in sales... Read more ›
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Apple is on the lookout for acquisitions of chip companies to boost its efforts to build server chips for running AI, said people familiar with the company’s efforts. In recent months, the iPhone maker has talked with bankers about possible deals. It has also approached semiconductor startups to gauge their interest in selling themselves, the people said. Apple’s hunt for chip acquisitions comes as the company struggles with the performance... Read more ›
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