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OpenAI expects to close its funding round, which could value it at $150 billion, by next week, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a memo to investors from Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar. Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital is leading the fundraise of as much as $7 billion in ...
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Musk said SpaceX plans to launch five uncrewed Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, followed by the first manned missions either two or four years later. Read more ›
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Apple iPhone 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max come with the latest available Apple iOS 18 pre-installed. While Apple tried to present this new iteration as one of the biggest redesigns, it doesn't feel that big in day-to-day use. However, allowing for deep personalization options across the homescreens and interface does have the potential to make the UI rather unique and different, something which has been lacking... Read more ›
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The team behind the upcoming Minecraft movie shared a new clip during Minecraft Live that expands on the brief crafting moment we saw in the polarizing first teaser. The scene comes in the middle of a discussion between Mojang creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson and A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess, at 4:51. The segment also gives us our first look at the movie’s interpretation of a Minecraft bee, which... Read more ›
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Kamala Harris is aiming to reassure swing voters across the US that she's the candidate who'll work to deliver on immigration reform. Read more ›
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A Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Florida on Saturday and is set to bring home two astronauts who've been stuck on the International Space Station for months. Read more ›
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The Category 4 hurricane made landfall near Perry, Florida, just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River, on Thursday night. Read more ›
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Samsung is eyeing a crucial hardware upgrade for the Galaxy S25 Ultra that could take its AI chops, especially the on-device tricks, to the next level. Read more ›
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Past studies have suggested a major ocean current could collapse, quickly changing temperatures and climate patterns, reports the Washington Post. "But scientists disagree on whether the the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already slowing, and questions remain as to whether a variety of proxy measurements actually indicate a slowdown" — including a new analysis arguing that the current "has remained remarkably stable." One way to detect AMOC weakening is... Read more ›
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Researchers have analyzed dozens of videos amassing millions of views on TikTok that feature the trend. Read more ›
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It's SpaceX to the rescue after NASA officials made a tough safety call to send Boeing's Starliner spaceship back to Earth without its two astronauts. Read more ›
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Israel's assassination of Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah is a major escalation in the Middle East conflict. Where it goes from here is up to Iran. Read more ›
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"After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they're rapidly firing young workers who aren't up to scratch just months after hiring them," writes Fortune. "According to a new report, six in 10 employers say they have already sacked some of the Gen Z workers they hired fresh out of... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader dmitrygr writes: Debian Linux booted on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 — the first microprocessor in the world — the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004 from the 1970s. There's a detailed blog post about the experiment. (Its title? "Slowly booting full Linux on... Read more ›
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A lawsuit accused Buffalo Wild Wings of deceptive marketing, forcing the company to argue it is 'common sense' that its boneless wings are not actually wings. Read more ›
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Guaranteed basic income critics often argue cash discourages work. Experts and participants say that's a myth. Read more ›
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Choosing the right tool for controlling your home's temperature can save you money and keep you more comfortable. These are our favorites. Read more ›
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Kimberly Wilkerson is a Californian who moved to Austin. She stayed for 2 ½ years but moved back to California to be near family. Read more ›
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Apple’s expected October event will be packed full of new products, with reports swirling over what could be announced. Read more ›
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is close to the end of its second season, and the season’s seventh episode was devoted almost entirely to a large battle. The siege of Eregion involved many of the show’s principal characters, but some fans were shocked by one interaction in particular that had nothing to […] Read more ›
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After five months in Charleston, South Carolina, Morgan and Dawson Mitchell moved to Louisville, Mississippi, to help build their financial future. Read more ›
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Last fall, members of OpenAI’s board of directors had had enough of the rumblings inside the artificial intelligence startup about CEO Sam Altman’s management style. They began questioning staffers, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, about how Altman operated, including his tendency to pit other leaders against each other. They worried that those tendencies, left unchecked, could hurt OpenAI’s ability to retain key researchers and executives. A year later, those... Read more ›
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In case you missed it, my colleagues broke news yesterday about Anthropic’s attempt to draft off OpenAI’s pending fundraising, by looking to do its own funding round. Like OpenAI, Anthropic wants to double its valuation. Whether it can do so despite weaker financials remains to be seen! On to today’s issue… It’s been a while since Microsoft told the world anything about its development of generative artificial intelligence that could... Read more ›
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Two years ago, a behind-the-scenes giant in U.S. financial markets went live with one of Wall Street’s biggest and most ambitious blockchain initiatives. Known as Project Ion, the effort aimed to use blockchain to revolutionize settlement of stock trades, when buyers fork over the cash and get share certificates. Firms ranging from big banks like JPMorgan Chase to trading app Robinhood got involved. But it didn’t catch on, a person... Read more ›
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Sports jersey seller Fanatics was one of the few high-profile private commerce companies to dodge a valuation collapse in 2022 when interest rates began rising. But as its growth has slowed, investors have started to sour on its prospects, with four mutual funds marking down their stakes in Fanatics by an average of 14% in the first half of the year. According to data compiled by Caplight, funds also made... Read more ›
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Creators played a big role at Meta’s annual developer conference last year, when Instagram unveiled a line of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots styled after celebrities. Meta scrapped that experiment earlier this year, in favor of helping influencers make their own chatbots.Meta is now expanding these chatbots beyond text messages. Creators using Meta’s free AI Studio software in the U.S. will be able to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a new feature on Wednesday that will allow creators to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that speak and listen to fans who visit the creators’ accounts on Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg demonstrated the technology at Meta ... Read more ›
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Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov said that the private messaging app will start sharing the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate its terms of service with “relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.” Telegram’s encrypted messaging has made the app a magnet for ... Read more ›
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Between OpenAI’s long-awaited Strawberry launch and its monster ongoing fundraising, it might be easy to forget about Sora, a video-generating model it teased in February to global fanfare. A number of investors told me at the time that the impressive Sora demos cast a worrying shadow over the gaggle of competing AI video startups that had raised hundreds of millions in venture capital. Those concerns may have eased: six months... Read more ›
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Helping artificial intelligence companies improve the accuracy of their large language models is turning into a giant business for Scale AI, which labels data for big AI developers like Meta Platforms and Google. Scale nearly quadrupled its sales to almost $400 million in the first half of the year compared with the same period last year, according to people familiar with the figures. Scale is among the privately held firms... Read more ›
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OpenAI expects to close its funding round, which could value it at $150 billion, by next week, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a memo to investors from Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar. Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital is leading the fundraise of as much as $7 billion in ... Read more ›
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