Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The startup’s team will be joining Anthropic’s health care life sciences group, which is aimed at developing tools for biotech workflows ranging from drug discovery to clinical commercialization, said the person. Coefficient Bio, started last fall, was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s shuttering of Sora wasn’t meant to be the end of its adventures in video generation, it turns out. Instead of using AI to generate videos, OpenAI wants to use videos to drive AI adoption.That’s one way of looking at the company’s rather startling decision on Thursday to buy TBPN, the Silicon Valley talk show that specializes in schmoozy interviews with tech CEOs. The purchase is confounding in a couple... Read more ›
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Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, agreed to acquire a 49% stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a five-year-old data center developer based in Denver, The Information reported Thursday. The agreement—which follows a report by The Information last week that Blackstone ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, strongly believes that the company should stay out of social media, a business she knows intimately from her time running Facebook for Meta Platforms, The Information reported on Thursday. That’s in contrast to CEO Sam Altman, who has in the past ... Read more ›
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The AI-driven scramble for compute is still powering red-hot data center acquisitions even as overall technology deals slowed in the first quarter this year. In the latest example, Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, agreed to acquire a 49% stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a five-year-old data center developer based in Denver, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Read more ›
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Tether, the world’s biggest stablecoin issuer, is making a last-ditch effort to raise funds at a $500 billion valuation, pressing investors to commit to the deal within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which is based in El Salvador, has been struggling to raise the funds since late last year because investors have been wary of the valuation. If too few investors agree... Read more ›
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In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup, as it inches toward an initial public offering late this year. Last month, Simo—who is now CEO of AGI Deployment—delivered the sobering message to the company’s staff that OpenAI can no longer chase “side quests” that distract it from its priorities. In the wake of that, OpenAI killed Sora,... Read more ›
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The Department of Defense on Thursday appealed a federal judge’s order to temporarily halt the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The appeal was expected; Judge Rita Lin’s preliminary injunction from last week included a seven-day administrative stay giving the Pentagon ... Read more ›
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The cybersecurity field is buzzing about an upcoming Anthropic AI model that could be used by hackers to “exploit [security] vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders,” according to a draft blog post the company mistakenly made public.Anthropic has been briefing cybersecurity researchers and is giving them early access to the model, which is said to be better than past models at generating and reviewing computer code.... Read more ›
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OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the popular tech news talk show that has become a hit over the last year with an enthusiastic embrace of AI and Silicon Valley. OpenAI didn’t say how much it had paid for TBPN, which was reportedly on track for $60 million in revenue this year. TBPN will have editorial ... Read more ›
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Amazon is in talks to acquire satellite company Globalstar, which provides backup texting services for iPhones, the Financial Times reported. The move would bolster Amazon’s efforts to compete with SpaceX, which has also considered buying Globalstar. Any acquisition of Globalstar would be ... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Thursday released three new AI models, building on the small but growing catalog of models it has trained internally as it aims to become more self-sufficient in AI. The three models are called MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, and are meant to transcribe audio, have ... Read more ›
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Tesla delivered 358,000 vehicles in the first quarter, a 6% year-over-year increase, the company said in a filing on Thursday. Deliveries in the first quarter were still lower than the same periods in 2023 and 2024, according to Tesla’s disclosures. They also undershot an analyst consensus ... Read more ›
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Besides ChatGPT, relatively few AI consumer apps have become breakout hits. But one app maker’s experience suggests there are plenty of lucrative consumer niches to be served.Seoul-based Wrtn Technologies says it’s generating more than $8 million in revenue a month from operating AI storytelling apps for hardcore anime and game fans in South Korea and Japan. Wrtn (pronounced “written”) is about to expand to the U.S. with a similar app... Read more ›
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Private credit has turned from a growth opportunity to a source of worry for investors that own shares in big asset managers. Anxieties about how the rise of AI could hurt software companies that have borrowed hundreds of billions have escalated the concerns about the sector that started brewing last fall. In recent months, investors in several high-profile private credit funds have rushed to pull money out, in some cases... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group’s shift from open-source AI models is becoming more apparent. On Thursday, the Chinese tech giant, which has become a global leader in open-source models in the past two years, launched a new large language model called Qwen3.6-Plus, touting its “significant advancement in agentic ... Read more ›
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ByteDance is helping OpenClaw operate a Chinese version of its ClawHub marketplace, which distributes OpenClaw’s special files that enable AI agents to perform specific tasks. OpenClaw’s official X account said in a post on Wednesday that it has launched an official China version of its ClawHub, ... Read more ›
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OpenRouter, a startup that lets AI app developers choose from hundreds of models on its application programming interface, is in talks to raise $120 million in new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, including the investment, The Information reported Wednesday. Capital G, one of Alphabet’s ... Read more ›
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Four months ago, Sam Altman got testy with one of his own investors, Altimeter Capital’s Brad Gerstner, in a podcast soundbyte heard round the world. “Brad, if you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer,” Altman said.Indeed, he seems to have found plenty of buyers. Read more ›
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Apple celebrated its 50th anniversary on Wednesday. Leading up to the date, the company has mounted a full-scale media blitz, giving out numerous executive interviews and putting on big events. On Tuesday, it rang the Nasdaq opening bell, and later that night, Paul McCartney played a concert at ... Read more ›
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