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Enterprise software firm Databricks, one of the world’s most valuable private tech companies, is considering raising several billion dollars in the coming months to allow employees to cash out stock grants that begin to expire in early 2026.
Such a move would signal that the firm, whose business of data management software has gotten a boost from artificial intelligence services, isn’t planning to go public anytime in the next year.
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It's not a joke: The Onion, the satirical news outlet, has purchased Alex Jones's Infowars at auction. The sale has the support of Sandy Hook victims. Read more ›
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"I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here," Goldberg said. Read more ›
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Apple today announced it will be opening an all-new store at the La Vaguada shopping center in Madrid, Spain on Thursday, November 28. To celebrate the occasion, Apple has released a special wallpaper for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a creative illustration of Apple's logo. Apple La Vaguada will be the company's 12th store in Spain, and its first all-new location opened in the country in just over a... Read more ›
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Much of the pre-launch discussion around Amazon's upcoming video game anthology show Secret Level has been occupied with fact it'll feature Concord, despite the shooter's abrupt end; but there's plenty more to it than that, and Prime Video has now highlighted some of the other games - many radically reimagined - that'll feature when the show airs on 10th December. Read more Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is taking a page out of the TikTok playbook by adding “jewels” you buy to exchange for gifts for your favorite creators during livestreams. The feature, announced in September’s Made on YouTube event, is rolling out in the US over the next few weeks for eligible creators in the YouTube Partner Program. The feature is reminiscent of TikTok’s livestream gifting, which essentially... Read more ›
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Google has launched its dedicated Gemini artificial intelligence app for iPhone users, expanding beyond the previous limited integration within the main Google app. The standalone app offers enhanced functionality, including support for Gemini Live and iOS-specific features like Dynamic Island integration. The new app allows iPhone users to interact with Google's AI through text or voice queries and includes support for Gemini Extensions. A key feature is Gemini Live, which... Read more ›
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More than three years after it was removed in the transition to Counter-Strike 2 and a week after Valve started teasing its return on social media, classic map Train has returned with a visual overhaul, gameplay changes and pleasant rain effects. Read more Read more ›
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Digital agritech holds promise for climate action and gender equality. Adoption remains low, with only six percent of farmers using digital tools. Agriculture is both a driver of and vulnerable to climate change, and digital technology is stepping in as a possible game-changer. In Southeast Asia—places like Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and the... Read more » Read more ›
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Today we're tracking all-time low prices on both the 9th and 10th generation iPad, both of which are available on Amazon. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. You can get the 64GB Wi-Fi 9th generation iPad for $199.99 in Silver, down from $329.00. This is a... Read more ›
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What can offshore crypto companies practically do to stop Americans from accessing their services – and what do regulators expect them to do? Read more ›
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Travel expert Maria Nuzzolillo reveals Italy's hidden gems for offseason visits, highlighting festivals and seasonal foods in the Campania region. Read more ›
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Apple's new Genmoji feature lets you create personalized emoji that aim to perfectly match what you want to express, going far beyond the limitations of standard Unicode emoji. Want an emoji of a break-dancing astronaut or a dog playing bagpipes? With Genmoji, you can make it happen. Unlike standard emoji that are fixed Unicode characters, Genmoji are dynamically generated using on-device AI. They work seamlessly in text, appearing as inline... Read more ›
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Apple TV+ today announced that the fourth season of its hit comedy Mythic Quest will debut on January 29. Read more ›
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The sports event will air live on the streaming service, and you can watch the weigh-in tonight. Read more ›
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There's a lot to love about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but one of its most impressive and remarked-upon technical aspects is undoubtedly its advanced rendering of characters' hair. Read more Read more ›
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good”... Read more ›
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Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins, and Steve Zahn star in the second season starting November 15. Read more ›
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Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic, which was working on commercial and military faster-than-sound jets, shutdown after five years of business. Read more ›
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Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake will launch on Apple devices on December 10, making it the fourth Resident Evil title to arrive on Apple's mobile platforms. The game will be available as a free download with a trial version, after which players can purchase the full game. While pricing hasn't been officially announced, it's likely to cost between $19.99 and $59.99, based on other Resident Evil titles on the App... Read more ›
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The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement for the basic building blocks underpinning them appears to be slowing down, though. The situation has prompted OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, to cook up new techniques for boosting those building blocks, known as large language models, to make up for the slowdown. Read more ›
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Forward, a startup that raised $400 million to operate artificial intelligence-powered “doctor in a box” healthcare stations, is shutting down effective Tuesday, according to a person close to the company. All of its nearly 200 employees will lose their jobs, the person said. The San Francisco startup, started in 2017 by former Google employee Adrian Aoun, wanted to make healthcare visits more accessible with staffed clinics and automatic services. It... Read more ›
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On Halloween, a Reddit user asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman whether “GPT-5” was coming, as well as the full version of the company’s o1 reasoning model—a preview version of which went on sale seven weeks ago. In other words, when would the public see the company’s next flagship large language model? Altman answered, “we are prioritizing shipping o1 and its successors,” and added that limited computing resources meant that it... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Tech has bought itself a more moderate San Francisco• Power and Influence: San Francisco's new mayor vows ‘city is open for business’• Media: How tech’s conservative shift went unnoticed for so long • Plus: How Stevie Wonder still wows; a fertile drama in Leningrad; and the witch is back.Most of the major AI companies choose to play it safe on Election Night.... Read more ›
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On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded by grassy fields near downtown Memphis, Tenn., as its passengers snapped photographs and videos of the facility. It was a secret reconnaissance mission. Elon Musk had recently converted the building from a former manufacturing plant for home appliances into a data center that housed one of the largest clusters... Read more ›
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Amazon is discussing making a second multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, according to a person involved in the discussions. The new deal is similar to Amazon’s initial $4 billion dollar investment in the startup, which was struck last year. But this time, Amazon wants Anthropic to make a concession. The cloud giant is asking Anthropic, which uses Amazon’s cloud services to train its AI, to use a large number... Read more ›
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A little more than a year ago, few people in San Francisco could have foreseen Daniel Lurie running away with the mayor’s race: Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir who founded an anti-poverty nonprofit, Tipping Point, had never held elected office. But his outsider status and moderate policy proposals on public safety, housing and homelessness—along with record spending to raise his profile—propelled him to a stunning victory this week over incumbent... Read more ›
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In just two years, Chinese-owned Temu has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known bargain shopping sites, known for its ultracheap and sometimes wacky gadgets and apparel. U.S. consumers are expected to spend about $18 billion on the site this year. Behind the scenes, though, Temu has encountered trouble with the bank that was handling those payments. Citigroup, the fourth-biggest U.S. bank, stopped handling payments for Temu... Read more ›
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A month ago, we reported that former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati had begun to pitch current OpenAI staffers on joining her new venture. It seems like at least one OpenAI researcher has taken her up on her offer.Mianna Chen, a research program manager for the team at OpenAI responsible for preparing AI models for release, has recently left and plans to join Murati at her new company, according... Read more ›
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Enterprise software firm Databricks, one of the world’s most valuable private tech companies, is considering raising several billion dollars in the coming months to allow employees to cash out stock grants that begin to expire in early 2026. Such a move would signal that the firm, whose business of data management software has gotten a boost from artificial intelligence services, isn’t planning to go public anytime in the next year. Read more ›
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