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Well that didn’t take long! We’re barely a week into the new year and already we’ve reported that Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new funding at a $60 billion post-investment valuation. Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that’s also backed rival AI developers including Mistral, Stability AI and Cartesia, is set to lead the deal.That valuation is not cheap, even by AI standards. Anthropic recently passed $875 million in annualized revenue—a measure of the past month's revenue mu
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China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Read more ›
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Elon Musk-owned X has introduced a new feature called ‘Certified Bangers’, aimed at rewarding creators whose posts go viral on the social media platform. Account holders can earn the shiny new badge, displayed on their profile, for a month if they post something that ‘shapes internet culture’ and attracts engagement. The feature is in its testing phase right now 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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The wall is intended to protect cities and key infrastructure from Russian glide bombs and Shahed-type drones. 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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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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Samsung went aggressive with the Z Fold 7 design, and it looks like the Z Flip 8 could get this treatment as well. Read more ›
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A professor of environmental health explained the dangers of using certain materials in microwaves. Here are the food storage containers that are safe. 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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Jim Farley said it's "no surprise" that Apple's Tim Cook came from a supply chain background because it requires similar leadership skills as a CEO. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1606 on November 12 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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"It's not enough to be smart" to be admitted to Palantir's anti-college internship for new high school grads. Read more ›
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Marriott kicked guests out of Sonder properties abruptly on Monday. It is now advising customers to contact their credit card companies for refunds. Read more ›
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Complete control over your floor cleaning experience. Read more ›
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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame has traded barbs with Palantir CEO Alex Karp over the stock market's big question: Is the AI boom a bubble? Read more ›
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Tech giant aims to dismantle the ‘Lighthouse Enterprise’, which it claims has tricked 1mn victims out of $1bn 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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Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, and Alex Lawther star in the FX series created by Noah Hawley. Read more ›
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More than a month after the first season’s finale aired, FX has finally confirmed that Alien: Earth will get a second run of episodes, ending some sleepless nights for this reporter / Alien obsessive. No release date has been set for the second season yet, though it will film some time next year. Showrunner Noah […] 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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