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Dealmakers, it’s been a history-making year. OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, the largest venture capital fundraise in history—only to have Databricks beat that record with its $10 billion haul in December. Then there were the acqui-hires, topped by Google paying $2.7 billion for the talent and technology behind Character AI.But the year wasn’t just up and to the right. Several well-known startups shut down, including fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy and left customers searching for their money, and F
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A plane operated by Jeju Air burst into flames and crashed near Muan International Airport on Sunday. Read more ›
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Europe and NATO rely on the US for SEAD capabilities, something that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shown is critical in a modern conflict. Read more ›
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Here are some hints -- and the answers -- for Connections No. 567 for Dec. 29. Read more ›
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Chinese chip maker Phytium reportedly delivered over 10 million processors to government projects and other key industries as it replaces Western processors from Intel and AMD. Read more ›
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Adding megawatts of new power consumption at such high speed is starting to affect the power quality in the average American home. Read more ›
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US chipmaker looks to new industries amid rising competition in core AI business Read more ›
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A leak suggests that Nvidia has priced the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 at $2,600 and $1,350 in China. Read more ›
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The personal finance website WalletHub compared 100 of the biggest US cities on entertainment, food, costs, safety, and accessibility. Read more ›
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China's new amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, has an electromagnetic catapult system that makes it essentially a light aircraft carrier. Read more ›
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Ajit Pai, a former FCC chairman who served under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to uphold a law that could ban TikTok. Read more ›
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Two key parts of Donald Trump's base have been at odds with each other over the merits of immigration prioritizing high-skill workers. Read more ›
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My tech resolution for 2025 is to breathe new life into my CD collection again – here's how I'm rediscovering shiny discs. Read more ›
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As a college student, I skipped studying abroad because I wanted to stay with my friends and boyfriend on campus. I now know that was a mistake. Read more ›
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A Meta Quest 3 on a charging dock. | Photo by David Pierce / The Verge Meta updated a note on the top of its Quest support site to say that a “software update issue” has been bricking Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest 3S headsets. The company writes that while “most” people can now use their headsets normally, it’s “actively working on resolving the issue for all users.” That... Read more ›
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A handful of RTX 50 and RDNA 4 GPUs from Asus have emerged online. Read more ›
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Meta, Aitomatic, and other members of the AI Alliance have released the world's first large language model specifically trained on the needs of the semiconductor industry. Read more ›
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Gain hands-on hacking skills with 132 hours of ethical hacking courses covering Python, WiFi, BitNinja, and more. Mashable readers can enroll for £27.84 (reg. £874.08). Read more ›
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The Huawei Watch D2 is the company's second watch to come with blood pressure monitoring. Imagine a smartwatch that not only tracks your steps and heart rate but also brings advanced blood pressure monitoring right to your wrist with the ease of a built-in inflatable cuff. Like all other Huawei smartwatches, the Watch D2 works with Android phones and iPhones. It has all the modern features you may expect -... Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago.Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The company has recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge... Read more ›
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Christmas Eve is usually the last day of a frantic holiday sprint for staff at e-commerce and logistics companies, after which they can expect to kick back and enjoy a comparatively calm couple of months. Not this year. Virtually any business that moves its products across borders has to be on guard as world leaders jockey to position themselves ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration and a likely escalation in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s next-generation reasoning model—called o3 for a funny reason—seriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors like Anthropic and Google by a lot. It also reached human levels of performance on ARC-AGI, a benchmark meant to test how AI models handle tasks that humans excel at such... Read more ›
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Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!Whether AGI has or hasn’t been “achieved” by AI developers has been a hotly debated topic due to its fuzzy and subjective definition. OpenAI has publicly described AGI as automated systems that outperform people at “most economically valuable work,” but nobody can agree on what that means.Now we have clarity, thanks to this story Amir and I published this morning.... Read more ›
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To train artificial intelligence–powered robots to pick a book off a shelf a decade ago, researchers had to direct the robots to perform the task roughly 500 times before the robots learned to imitate the motion, recalls Brad Porter, founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, which is developing robots to work in hospitals and warehouses. These days the robots can successfully grab a book after only 20 trials—which is “much... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s efforts to license news publishers’ content for training its large language models are beginning to pay business dividends. Publishers are increasingly opting to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools for their operations rather than Google’s, publishing executives say. OpenAI has signed more than a dozen content licensing agreements with news and magazine publishers in the past year. Under those deals, publishers get credits to use its technology, said people from... Read more ›
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Nvidia, a chip giant, says it can develop a cloud services and software business to rival Amazon Web Services. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence developer, has been developing server chips and a browser to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Google, respectively. And Elon Musk hired a data center team to build one of the biggest supercomputing server clusters for developing conversational AI. It seems like every major competitor in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation. His biggest hurdle is Microsoft, which has outsize influence on the process after having committed more than $13 billion to OpenAI. The companies have been negotiating potential changes in OpenAI’s structure since around October. Those talks have focused on four areas: Microsoft’s equity stake in the for-profit entity; whether... Read more ›
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Like most big tech companies with artificial intelligence ambitions, Apple has little choice but to use chips from Nvidia, whose graphics processing units are practically a de facto standard in the development and running of AI software. But Apple is working on ways to spend less on Nvidia chips without undermining its success in AI. Instead of buying boatloads of Nvidia chips as its tech peers do, the iPhone maker... Read more ›
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Dealmakers, it’s been a history-making year. OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, the largest venture capital fundraise in history—only to have Databricks beat that record with its $10 billion haul in December. Then there were the acqui-hires, topped by Google paying $2.7 billion for the talent and technology behind Character AI.But the year wasn’t just up and to the right. Several well-known startups shut down, including fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy... Read more ›
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