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The Nasdaq Composite rose 31% in 2024 after investor excitement over generative artificial intelligence resulted in a boom year for the tech companies that make up more than half of the index. Nvidia’s stock price increased 179% over the past year to $134. In September, Nvidia was the third ...
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Google has filed a lawsuit against a group of Chinese hackers running a platform called “Lighthouse” that sells phishing services for a monthly fee. The group offers clients its services to launch massive phishing and smishing (SMS phishing) campaigns. Google says the bad actors typically send out emails or text messages that link to fake websites pretending to be legitimate pages of established brands like USPS and E-Z Pass, in... Read more ›
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I'm an American who traveled to Copenhagen, the world's happiest city. I saw why locals are so happy and brought lessons and habits back to the US. Read more ›
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Economist Marc Sumerlin said companies may pause hiring young workers as they wait for AI productivity gains. Read more ›
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Disney and Pixar have released the first teaser trailer for Toy Story 5, showing tablet screens as an “all-new threat to playtime.” The trailer introduces — much to the horror of Woody and co — a new character called “Lilypad,” a frog-shaped tablet played by Greta Lee (Russian Doll, Tron: Ares), alongside the tagline “the […] Read more ›
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Warpower today isn't just determined by the size of a nation's army, but also by its warships, aircraft, defense budget, and access to oil and coal. Read more ›
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OpenAI shifts from artificial general intelligence to personalized chatbots for everybody. Read more ›
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An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release. Read more ›
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Google is buying 1.5 terawatt hours of solar capacity from French oil and gas supergiant TotalEnergies. The order could saturate the 50MW solar facility in Ohio that has yet to come online, meaning its entire capacity could be absorbed by Google data centers over the course of the contract. Read more ›
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The classy creature feature, a passion project for the Oscar winner, was the top movie in 72 countries this past week. Read more ›
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Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. Read more ›
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The bank said USDC remains the frontrunner to dominate digital dollars as the company's third-quarter results topped forecasts. Read more ›
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I've tested 25+ cordless stick and automatic robot vacuums at home to build a list of the top vacuum cleaners for carpet, rugs, and hard floors. Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Billie Wonder secures €600K, seeks more investors to scale its circular diaper-as-a-service model. Amsterdam-based Billie Wonder, a provider of hemp-based diapers delivered as a product-as-service, is raising €800K in funding. The company has already secured €600K and is seeking 2–4 additional angel investors to support expansion. Billie Wonder is targeting investors with experience in ... Read more Read more ›
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China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Read more ›
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The Galaxy S26 Edge's purported cancellation has thrown everything out of gear. Read more ›
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OpenAI announced that it's giving transitioning service members and veterans a free year of ChatGPT Plus. Read more ›
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FFmpeg, the open source multimedia framework that powers video processing in Google Chrome, Firefox, YouTube and other major platforms, has called on Google to either fund the project or stop burdening its volunteer maintainers with security vulnerabilities found by the company's AI tools. The maintainers patched a bug that Google's AI agent discovered in code for decoding a 1995 video game but described the finding as "CVE slop." The confrontation... Read more ›
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The wall is intended to protect cities and key infrastructure from Russian glide bombs and Shahed-type drones. Read more ›
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Decagon, which develops AI for automating customer service, is discussing raising equity funding from new investors at a valuation of $4 billion to $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The discussions come just five months after the company announced financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal discussions suggest investor interest is still high for one of the most promising and increasingly crowded fields... Read more ›
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Chinese companies are launching open-source AI models built to power coding assistants as cheaper alternatives to those available from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Late last month, Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax launched M2, a new open-source large language model developed primarily for coding and AI agents. In a post on X, MiniMax noted that the price of M2 is just 8% of that of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model. (M2 costs $1.20... Read more ›
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On a quiet September morning, Alex Leithiser was out in the woods somewhere in the South on a secret mission: to break into a data center. First, he slipped through a small gap in the facility’s barbed wire fence, and as soon as he hit the ground, he switched clothes, pulling a fresh set from a small backpack. With cameras and alarms all over the data center, Leithiser hoped to... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t want the government to bail them out if the company fails. “If we screw up and can’t fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,” Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more ›
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I’ve been hearing a lot about how intense competition is for Series A investments lately. Investors that typically look to invest in more mature startups, say at the Series B or above rounds, are crowding into Series A rounds for fear of missing the next major winner.Like much else these days, artificial intelligence gets the credit (or blame) for this new dynamic. Venture capitalists are watching revenues triple or quadruple... Read more ›
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Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The redesign could include a second camera lens, an attempt to address one of consumers’ main ... Read more ›
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We’ve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote that’s generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, I’m not talking about the mayoral election in New York City—I’m talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Musk’s gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more ›
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The White House has told others in the federal government it won’t allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trump’s hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision is a major blow to the AI chip giant, which has seen its revenue from China shrivel this year... Read more ›
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that government guarantees for financing artificial intelligence chips could help the U.S. stay competitive globally. “We’re looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,” she said at a ... Read more ›
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Before Sequoia Capital’s leader Roelof Botha announced he was stepping down from the position, partners Alfred Lin, Pat Grady and Andrew Reed came to him to talk about his time at the firm. Botha had only held the top-most job at the firm for three years, taking over from long-time leader Doug Leone just as startup valuations were convulsing from a historic series of rate hikes. Botha, after talking to... Read more ›
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