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Venture capitalists’ wallets are still open for artificial intelligence startups. But as the field has gotten more crowded, some startups that are raising new capital have leaned on metrics that don’t exactly scream confidence in their business prospects. They include the number of AI PhDs on staff, how many Nvidia AI chips the company has, and a fuzzier measure of potential revenue.Some of this behavior reminds VCs of WeWork. The office-leasing company infamously used “community adjusted” earnings before i
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Samsung has a new storage option for smartphones, AI devices, and XR headsets that it’ll deliver soon. This new UFS 5.0 storage could power the Galaxy S27 Ultra and the majority of Samsung devices into 2027. This new Samsung UFS 5.0 storage is the “industry’s fastest Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 5.0” solution, according to a... Read the original post: Samsung’s UFS 5.0 Storage Sounds Insanely Fast Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tasked a small team at the company with making an app that works like the prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, according to The New York Times. The app, internally called "Arena" won't let users wager real money, but instead will "probably rely" on allowing users to bet with points, the […] Read more ›
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Samsung is rumored to be holding its next Unpacked event in London on July 22, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip8, alongside the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Galaxy Watch9. Today a new leak brings us details about the phones' colors and storage options. The Fold8, which is allegedly the wide one, will be available in Cream, Graphite, Lavender,... Read more ›
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I can’t think of a tech accessory I actively use more than headphones. Whether it’s for music, calls, or just to block out ambient noise so I can focus, I always have a pair close at hand. One of the best times to get some of your own with some big savings attached is during […] Read more ›
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As AI spending has eaten into corporate budgets, generating concern over rising costs at Fortune 500 firms from Uber to ServiceNow and Snowflake, some companies are beginning to throttle employees’ usage. The latest is AT&T, which has begun limiting some employees’ access to Microsoft’s Github Copilot, according to a person at the company. In a more striking example, Meta is also limiting employees’ AI spending on services from Anthropic and... Read more ›
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The $12 billion valuation that Cyera snagged in a $600 million fundraise announced last week shows how hungry investors were for the cybersecurity startup’s AI-focused pitch. The five-year-old startup sells software that can protect companies’ data from hackers equipped with increasingly powerful AI tools—a threat highlighted by Anthropic’s warnings about the cyber capabilities of its Mythos model.For the VC fund Cyberstarts, the Cyera round gives it more bragging rights after... Read more ›
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The U.S. government’s latest battle with Anthropic has revived long-simmering concerns throughout the AI industry that the White House has placed a bullseye on their reliance on foreign AI talent. The Trump administration appears to have targeted only Anthropic so far, warning the company on Friday in a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that it would need a license to make its latest models available to “foreign persons,” including... Read more ›
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OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders. Both cash burn and revenue tripled from the same period the previous year, signaling how even with strong AI demand, making money from AI continues to be challenging. The company ended the quarter with more than $73 billion in cash and marketable securities, compared with... Read more ›
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Investing in AI really is not for the faint of heart. Leaving aside all the worries about risks of huge investments in data centers and the uncertainties about demand, there’s also the unpredictable government moves that can upend things. Case in point: the Trump administration’s warnings to Anthropic over the weekend that no foreigners, including foreign employees of Anthropic, could access its latest AI models without permission.While that warning is... Read more ›
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Microsoft is considering adding Chinese AI developer DeepSeek’s V4 as a cheaper model option for powering the Copilot Cowork AI assistant, Axios reported. The U.S. tech giant is exploring a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper alternative to ... Read more ›
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As OpenAI and Anthropic build up their teams of enterprise salespeople, they’ve both been hiring from one of the deepest pools of enterprise software talent anywhere: Salesforce. More than 45 Salesforce employees have joined Anthropic since the start of this year, and close to 40 have joined OpenAI, largely in sales and marketing roles, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Read more ›
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For companies debating which AI server chips to use in their data centers, Amazon appears to have one advantage over Nvidia: price. The cost of using Amazon’s Inferentia2 and Trainium’s second generation chips to run existing AI models, known as inference, can be 80% lower than Nvidia’s H100 chips, for comparable workloads, according to Karol Piatek, who advises companies on their AI infrastructure at Ireland-based consultancy Co Driver Labs. A... Read more ›
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The prescient investor who appears to hold a crystal ball or have a healthy stomach for risk is always a compelling character to write about. These are the Josh Kushners, Peter Thiels and Masayoshi Sons of the world. Love ’em or hate ’em, they’re interesting. At this point of the AI cycle, though, the more important investors to watch might be the ones that evoke little emotion and attract few... Read more ›
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The Information is pleased to announce four new hires to continue our newsroom’s award-winning reporting. They will focus on Nvidia, finance, Elon Musk’s companies and tech policy. Dakin Campbell, Finance Dakin brings deep knowledge and a wealth of sources in finance. He has already started to help break news for The Information, reporting on investment banks’ trading strategies and the inner workings of complicated AI financing deals. He joins us... Read more ›
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