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Venture capital investors face stiff competition in artificial intelligence startup deals from Google and Nvidia, which are increasingly winning stakes in the startups by offering founders price breaks on cloud computing or chips. But VC investors face competition from another quarter: corporations that are willing to pay top dollar to buy startups outright.
Two recent AI acquisitions demonstrate the issue. Venture firm Menlo Ventures in May offered to invest in Casetext, a startup that provides AI tools a
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The Miss Universe 2025 winner is Miss Mexico FĆ”tima Bosch. She took the crown after weeks of drama at the pageant. Read more āŗ
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"Santa's coming to town a little early," Duffy said, announcing $10,000 bonus checks for some air traffic controllers who worked during the shutdown. Read more āŗ
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An Ohio IT contractor pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's network after being fired, impersonating another worker and using a PowerShell script to reset 2,500 passwords -- an act that locked out thousands of employees and caused more than $862,000 in damage. He faces up to 10 years in prison. The Register reports: Maxwell Schultz, 35, impersonated another contractor to gain access to the company's network after his... Read more āŗ
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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more āŗ
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Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ages. Microsoft announced today that the code for Zork, Zork II and Zork III will be made available open source under the MIT License. The company's Open Source Programs Office, Xbox and Activision all contributed to... Read more āŗ
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Amazon is kicking off its Black Friday week shopping event today. Late November is the perfect time to snag a new smartphone ahead of the holiday season, and weāve gathered some of the best smartphone offers from Amazon Germany. These offers are valid with a Prime subscription and will run through December 1. Flagships Mid-rangers Flagships It doesnāt get much better than the vivo X300 Pro in terms of an... Read more āŗ
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Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now it's backāin Trump form. Read more āŗ
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After Nawat Itsaragrisil yelled at Miss Mexico, the pageant's president said he'd restrict him from Miss Universe events. That hasn't been the case. Read more āŗ
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Amazon has launched Alexa+, its next-generation digital assistant, in Canada. The company unveiled the new assistant in February, and it has been making its way to more and more people since. Canada is the first region outside the US to get access Amazonās upgraded Alexa. Like the version that rolled out in the US, users can communicate with Alexa+ in natural language. They can say āIām cold,ā for instance, and... Read more āŗ
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Between all the new phones, smartwatches, and laptops we see throughout the year, it often feels like we're constantly being nudged toward shinier, more expensive gadgets. And I get it. As a self-professed gadget nerd, few things are more exciting than unboxing and setting up a new device. But the truth is, you can still [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Weāre moving off the (unresolved) AI bubble debate to a much more fundamental question about AI. That is whether decisions about an enormously costly technology, which threatens to put many people out of work, should be left to tech leaders or discussed more broadly. It turns out Republicans may have the best handle on this issue, most obviously Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Heās long been vocal about the threat AI... Read more āŗ
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At Teslaās annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Muskās other companies, xAI. But Muskās revelation at the meeting that Tesla is considering building its own chip fabrication plant signaled another way his two companies could work together. Musk had already discussed plans for such a chip fab internally at Tesla months before the... Read more āŗ
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Microsoft will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, and Nvidia will invest $10 billion in the startup, the three companies announced on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Anthropic will spend at least $30 billion to rent servers from Microsoftās Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips over an unspecified period, and ... Read more āŗ
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Appleās succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely wonāt happen until after late January when ... Read more āŗ
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Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morningās news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAIās board of directors following a congressional committeeās release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had been on the board of the ChatGPT-maker for two years. His departure follows his decision to step back from public commitments in... Read more āŗ
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:ā¢ The Big Read: Inside Grindrās boardroom feudĀ ā¢ Plus, our Recommendations: āHarry Potter and the Sorcererās Stone,ā āA Biography of a Mountainā and āMaterialistsāA bit of housekeeping: The Informationās Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat weāre calling ātech wealth and culture.ā This person will cover how Silicon Valleyās moguls live largeātheir pursuits, their pastimesāand how they spend their money. Hereās a... Read more āŗ
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TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more āŗ
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The White House is working on an executive order that will direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass their own laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Information. The order, which is still in the drafting phase, could change. The timeline for when it will be formally announced is also unclear. The move is part of a long-standing effort this year... Read more āŗ
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Thinking Machines Lab, the company co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5 billion in the startupās next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more āŗ
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Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the U.S., moving ahead with its plan to list despite a recent-sell of crypto-related stocks. The filing comes a day after it raised $200 million from Ken Griffinās Citadel Securities at a $20 ... Read more āŗ
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Blockchain.com, a crypto brokerage and wallet provider, is planning to go public next year, the companyās newly named co-chief executive revealed, aiming to list after several volatile years. The company said it promoted its president Lane Kasselman to be co-CEO, alongside its founder and CEO Peter Smith, as part of its listing efforts. Kasselman isĀ a former Uber executive who has worked for the crypto firm for five years. The... Read more āŗ
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