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Fire-sale prices for startups. Investors hung out to dry. Founders pulling the rip cord even when they’ve still got cash left in the bank.
The harsh realities facing creator economy startups are getting even harsher, prompting a stampede of founders looking for exits as they struggle to find growth and funding for their businesses. So far this year, there have been 35 completed or planned sales of companies in The Information’s Creator Economy Database—from creator-focused shopping apps to providers of pod
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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The platform halted deposits while it investigates suspicious activity and urges users to proceed with caution. Read more ›
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New movies coming to Netflix in April include 2022's "Scream," the original comedy "Roommates," and a whole bunch of "Mission: Impossible" movies. Read more ›
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Two brothers from the same tough Depression-era childhood died within months of each other—one beloved and gentle, the other consumed by forty-year-old grudges—and the difference had nothing to do with who suffered more. Read more ›
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A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind. Read more ›
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Legora's revenue is climbing as law firms spend serious money to retool how layers work. Read more ›
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The question isn't whether Airbnb will eventually add flights or not. The issue is in what manner will Airbnb do it. Read more ›
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The HP OmniBook 5 is a better laptop than the MacBook Neo in almost every way. Right now, it's also $100 cheaper. Read more ›
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The semaglutide revolution took its next leap forward on Wednesday: The Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 oral pill for sale in the United States. The approval for the drug, which will be sold under the brand name Foundayo, marks an important technological inflection point for this class of drugs that is […] Read more ›
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Перед командой встала типичная для высоконагруженных сервисов постановка по обработке сообщений:1. Порядок обработки в рамках одной логической партиции 2. Очень много ключей партиций 3. Ограниченный пул воркеров, который шарится между партициями, при этом одна тяжёлая партиция не должна блокировать остальные 4. Ретраи и отложенные сообщенияНи одна готовая «одна технология» не закрывает это из коробки без компромиссов. Ниже — как мы к этому пришли и что в итоге сделали в виде... Read more ›
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We're only months away from our first look at Apple's smarter, redesigned version of Siri. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will focus on an entirely revamped version of Siri, and rumors about what we can expect are picking up. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. There's a chatbot version of Siri in the works that will change the way that we use Apple's personal assistant.... Read more ›
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NASA's Apollo 8 mission was the first to orbit the moon. No US spacecraft has returned to the moon since 1972, but that's all about to change. Read more ›
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Before someone's practiced smile slides into place, their face tells the truth about how they really feel about you—and once you learn to spot these fleeting moments of honesty, you'll never be able to unsee the hidden dynamics in every conversation you have. Read more ›
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Alaska Airlines wants its 787s to have a distinct identity after its merger with Hawaiian to better compete with rivals American, Delta, and United. Read more ›
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![[Перевод] 10 триллионов параметров и статус «слишком опасна»: что мы знаем о Claude Mythos](https://times42.com/media/8/6/3/12215863_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] 10 триллионов параметров и статус «слишком опасна»: что мы знаем о Claude Mythos")
Claude Mythos — это новая супер-ИИ модель, которую Anthropic пока не хочет вам показывать. Утечка указывает на то, что она далеко превосходит Opus 4.6 — и, возможно, слишком мощная для публичного релиза.Это не похоже на обычный хайп-цикл ИИ-моделей: Anthropic случайно оставила в публичном доступе черновики блог-постов, внутренние документы и почти 3 000 неопубликованных материалов в открытом кэше данных.Их обнаружили два исследователя кибербезопасности.Модель называется Claude Mythos, и собственные слова A Read more ›
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Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death. Read more ›
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Google is set to take on Whoop with a screenless Fitbit wrist wearable. The device was teased by NBA star Steph Curry, who entered a long-term partnership with Google last year as a Performance Advisor across Health, Pixel and Cloud products. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wardell Curry (@stephencurry30) While we don’t get any specs or an actual good look at the device, we can spot... Read more ›
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SpaceX is likely to list the investment banks that are advising it on its mega initial public offering in alphabetical order on the prospectus, according to three people familiar with the process. That’s a departure from the norm, where the most senior bank is listed first on the filing in what ... Read more ›
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Blackstone is close to a deal to buy Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a major U.S. data center developer that builds campuses for large cloud providers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The terms of the deal couldn’t be learned, but the company would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, people familiar with its financials said. The talks are ongoing, and the acquisition... Read more ›
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Sierra, an AI startup led by ex-Salesforce CEO Bret Taylor, unveiled a new product called Ghostwriter that builds AI agents for tasks such as customer service based on natural language prompts. While other software providers offer similar tools, the self-service aspect of ... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft ruled Wednesday that Musk’s damages expert, an economist at economic consulting firm Berkeley Research Group, is allowed to present his testimony at trial. The economist, C. Paul Wazzan, found that ... Read more ›
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Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises above $9.4 trillion by 2031, from $1.5 trillion now. Hours later, on Wednesday, we scooped the news that Meta was laying off hundreds of people. And hours after that, a jury in Los Angeles found Meta and Google’s... Read more ›
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A tidal wave of fast-growing AI startups has given venture capitalists many more shots to score winning investments. But competition to invest has never been more intense. That has made the partners who can secure stakes in sought-after startups all the more valuable. The Information asked over two dozen founders and investors about the individuals best positioned to become general partners—the top dealmakers who usually get the biggest share of... Read more ›
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Investments in AI startups such as Mercor and Skild AI helped advance three of 16 finalists in last year’s list of Next General Partners to higher positions, including to the role of general partner in their firms. These promotions reflect how AI continues to dominate venture capital investing. Last year’s finalists can’t credit just AI, however. Increased valuations for defense tech startup Anduril and expense software company Ramp also cast... Read more ›
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Anthropic has been on a tear in adding features to its Claude AI agents for coding and other white-collar work. The Claude agents now offer many of the features that turned OpenClaw, an open-source tool for developing personal AI agents, into a sensation.Claude’s new features include the ability to take over a person’s computer to perform complex tasks using any application, which Anthropic launched with great fanfare Monday night; take... Read more ›
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Microsoft executives in recent weeks told managers at major divisions, including its Azure cloud and North American sales groups, to suspend new hiring, according to three current employees with direct knowledge of the decision. It’s not uncommon for Microsoft to slow hiring or even lay off staff toward the end of its fiscal year, which ends in June. But Microsoft’s cost-conscious approach reflects a broader attitude throughout tech, as companies... Read more ›
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OpenAI has put plans to allow its ChatGPT chatbot to generate erotica on hold indefinitely, according to a report from the Financial Times. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first teased “adult mode” in ChatGPT last October, saying in a post on X that the release would be part of OpenAI’s “treat adult users ... Read more ›
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