U.K.-based cloud provider Nscale, whose announced customers include OpenAI and Microsoft, is in negotiations to acquire a massive AI data center site in West Virginia, The Information reported. Amazon, Meta and a cloud ally of Google have also expressed interest in the site. The site is ... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group on Tuesday released Qwen 3, a new generation of its open-source artificial intelligence foundation models. The company said the largest one among the new models outperforms competitors’ popular existing models like DeepSeek’s R1 and OpenAI’s o1 based on multiple industry benchmarks ... Read more ›
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Amazon’s efforts to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service finally got off the ground. On Monday afternoon, 27 satellites for the Amazon service, known as Project Kuiper, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard an Atlas V rocket operated by United Launch Alliance. In ... Read more ›
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Group chats are definitely having a moment. First, there were the headlines about how Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, had participated in private Signal discussion groups with Trump administration officials and family members in which he reportedly discussed upcoming U.S. military operations. Then, on Sunday, Ben Smith at Semafor published a riveting story about the group chats on WhatsApp and Signal where Silicon Valley elite, including right-leaning figures... Read more ›
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A group of Wall Street banks sold the final tranches of debt it lent Elon Musk in 2022 for his takeover of Twitter, now called X, The Wall Street Journal reported. The $1.2 billion sale marks the end of a long-running headache for the banking syndicate that lent a total of $13 billion to Musk. ... Read more ›
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Around 300 employees at Google’s AI research unit Google DeepMind in the United Kingdom are seeking to unionize with the Communications Workers Union, the Financial Times reported. The unionization push follows employee discontent over Google providing cloud computing services to the Israeli ... Read more ›
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A crop of new artificial intelligence startups, including those founded by star ex-OpenAI executives, is trying to convince investors to invest at multibillion-dollar valuations with scant products or revenue to speak of. But representatives from two investors, Fidelity and Atreides Management, say it may be too late for those firms to overcome the first movers in the field. That’s because incumbents like Elon Musk’s xAI and Google have a trifecta... Read more ›
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Palo Alto Networks said Monday that it has agreed to buy Protect AI, a three-year-old startup that develops cybersecurity software for artificial intelligence applications. The deal speaks to the growing demand for software that guards against hacks of AI applications. Terms of the deal weren’t ... Read more ›
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Splice, a music start-up that uses artificial intelligence to blend audio samples, bought Spitfire Audio for its catalog of tracks and sounds, the companies said Monday. Splice is paying $50 million, according to sources close to the company. The acquisition reflects growing interest in marrying ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is incorporating more shopping features into ChatGPT search results, the company said Monday. For web searches, ChatGPT will now include links to products with images and reviews. The links open up another avenue of competition with Google, whose browser-based shopping feature returns ... Read more ›
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Spotify said on Monday that it paid out more than $100 million to podcast creators and publishers globally during the first quarter. The company said the payouts include both ad revenue generated by audio and video podcasts as well as payments Spotify makes to certain creators and publishers in ... Read more ›
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It’s no secret that the success of today’s large language models wouldn’t be possible without the armies of humans creating the data, like solved math or coding problems, for the AI to be trained on. But as important as data labeling companies—such as Scale AI, Turing and Invisible—have been to the AI sector, they’re not absolutely crucial. Their customers have pulled back on their spending from time to time, as... Read more ›
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Most companies valued at more than $200 billion have imposed a high degree of structure on their organizations as they have grown. That’s not the case at Palantir Technologies. Experienced staff get a say in which projects they work on, according to five people who have worked at the data analytics firm. Performance reviews don’t always occur at scheduled times of the year. The company has no guidelines on in-office... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s XAI Holdings, formed from merging his xAI startup with social media company X, is in talks to raise $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported. The new investment could value the combined company at $120 billion, the report said. The giant round could be used to pay down some of the debt ... Read more ›
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Huawei Technologies is talking to Chinese tech companies about a powerful new artificial-intelligence chip it has developed, The Wall Street Journal reported. Huawei is aiming for the chip to replace some high-end products from Nvidia, the U.S. chipmaker that dominates AI chips, the Journal ... Read more ›
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Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has landed in the middle of a nasty Silicon Valley spy scandal between one of its most successful startups and a company run by a chief executive the VC firm pushed out nearly a decade ago from the company he founded. The VC firm is playing a central role in the fight between rival human resources software companies Deel, which it backs, and Rippling. Andreessen... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Netflix’s eager new friend? The NFL• The Top 5: Tech’s favorite microconferences and private summits • Plus, our Recommendations: an artworld mystery involving Dali, Basquiat and Haring; real talk about talking better; and a pair of detectives with unusual charmLet’s spend a moment to discuss one of the hardest things to do well: quit. It’s an act we generally demonize. Ours is... Read more ›
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Nearly anyone who’s anyone agrees: Bigger isn’t better—when it comes to conferences and networking. Indeed, the tech, media and finance elite have increasingly come to prefer an intimate gathering over attending anything giant and sponsored to death. Web Summit, Collision, South by Southwest and pretty much any event thrown by a media brand have lost some of their appeal and cultural cachet, say nearly a dozen of the best-connected folks... Read more ›
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said late Thursday that he could foresee people owning cars with Waymo’s self-driving car systems. There’s “future optionality around personal ownership” of Waymo’s technology, Pichai said in a call to discuss the company’s first quarter results. Waymo, a subsidiary of ... Read more ›
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We could have a big deal coming soon. DoorDash looks likely to buy UK-based meal and grocery delivery firm Deliveroo for about $3.6 billion in cash, judging by a statement from Deliveroo on Friday that was also posted by DoorDash on its website. The U.S. delivery firm made an offer at that price earlier this month and Deliveroo said Friday it “would be minded to recommend such an offer to... Read more ›
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Leaders of the Chinese startup behind the hit artificial intelligence agent Manus have discussed setting up new headquarters outside China, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The discussions signal that the startup doesn’t want its ability to do business in the U.S. to be constrained by its Chinese roots. The startup, called Butterfly Effect, recently raised $75 million, at a valuation of $500 million, in a round... Read more ›
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