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Deepgram, an artificial intelligence startup selling speech recognition software that generates transcripts, has cut around 20% of staff, or around 20 people, CEO Scott Stephenson said. It was at least the second time this year the San Francisco startup has laid off workers, according to two people familiar with the cuts. Stephenson blamed higher interest rates, which have reduced startup funding.
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Adobe reports $7.9 billion in online spending on Black Friday, up 8.2% from 2023, and expects final online numbers between $10.7 and $11 billion. Read more âș
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The âŹ6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more » Read more âș
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You can buy the parts to put together a very powerful gaming PC for cheap. Here's the parts listing. Read more âș
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Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could raise car prices, impacting US and European automakers such as General Motors, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover. Read more âș
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Meta plans a $10 billion global underwater cable project spanning 25,000 miles, which would be solely owned by Meta, TechCrunch reported. Read more âș
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Elon Musk praised Apple's new hearing aid feature for AirPods, despite his rocky history with the tech giant. Read more âș
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All cords lead to WIRED. Come gather to find the best Black Friday tech deals. Read more âș
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly flew to Mar-a-Lago after Trump announced new tariff plans. Read more âș
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Notre Dame Cathedral is set to reopen on December 7, more than five years after a fire devastated parts of the building. Read more âș
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This Asus Chromebook is available for just $110 and it has nothing to do with a MacBook. Read more âș
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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 âș
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more âș
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Chrome may soon let you know if a website is worth doing business with straight from the URL bar. Read more âș
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A mockup of the Earth selfie from YouTuber Mark Rober. | Screenshot: Mark Rober The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Roberâs offer to snap anyoneâs selfie with the planet Earth using a satellite heâs launching into orbit with the help of Google and T-Mobile. Rober is a former NASA engineer who made a name for himself on YouTube by glitter bombing porch pirates, creating... Read more âș
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These Black Friday deals on popular streaming services like Hulu, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Peacock are simply unbelievable. Here's why you should get them. Read more âș
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FAA reports busiest Thanksgiving air travel yet, with 232,000 flights and minimal delays or cancellations, but potential snowstorms may disrupt plans. Read more âș
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Volkswagen, Chevrolet, and Tesla buyers are heavily influenced by Federal tax incentives, according to a J.D. Power survey. Read more âș
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Brightcove, which makes software to help companies create and make money from videos, agreed to be taken private by Italian mobile app operator Bending Spoons for $233 million in cash in a deal expected to close early next year, the companies announced on Monday. The purchase price Bending ... Read more âș
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the companyâs CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapseâs ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more âș
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Gavin Newsom, Californiaâs Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the companyâs large market ... Read more âș
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacyâa semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more âș
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more âș
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Appleâs desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers canât overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fallâit canât fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more âș
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The judge overseeing Googleâs search antitrust case warned that he doesnât want to delay the upcoming trial of remedies to deal with Googleâs illegal search monopoly, now scheduled for the spring. At a status conference for the case on Tuesday, the judge said the incoming presidential ... Read more âș
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Itâs a bit early to be offering predictions for 2025, but here goes anyway. Chances are very good that sometime next year weâre going to hear a bunch of complaints about newly released Apple iPhones dropping calls more often than previous models did. In other words, weâre in for a repeat of the âAntennagateâ brouhaha of 2010, when similar connectivity issues on the new iPhone 4 became a big story.Assuming... Read more âș
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday said that the company will balance compliance with technological advancement and customer service under the incoming Trump administration. âThe advancement of AI is global. Open science and open research of AI is global, and nothing can stop this,â Huang told ... Read more âș
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Ray Kurzweilâs predictions about technological advancements have intriguedâand unnervedâpeople for decades. At 76, heâs still quite up to the task and threw out a whopper within minutes of sitting down with me. âWhen we achieve AGI in the 2030s, weâre going to actually merge this intelligence with ourselves,â Kurzweil said, with utter straightforwardness. (AGI, of course, is the technical term for AI that has achieved human-level intelligence.) âIt will actually... Read more âș
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