If youâve been on X at all in the last few days, youâve probably come across posts in which people described jailbreaking xAIâs new Grok 3 model. For instance, one person asked the chatbot how to make chemical weapons, while another revealed instructions xAI gave the model to stop it from saying that Elon Musk is the top spreader of misinformation on X.For all the attention these posts might have... Read more âș
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These days, it seems like every celebrity wants to start their own brand. Just look at Robert Downey Jr., who raised venture money last year for a coffee company he co-founded, or the gamers-slash-boxers-slash-influencers launching their own energy drinks, menâs body wash and more. But investors say theyâre overwhelmed by pitches for undifferentiated or low-quality goods and are quickly souring on the sector. Four early-stage investors who previously backed celebrity... Read more âș
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Cohere, one of the earliest venture-backed developers of artificial intelligence models, has grown significantly in the last year, despite competition from OpenAI and Anthropic and the proliferation of cheap, open-source alternatives like DeepSeek. Annualized revenue hit $70 million at the start ... Read more âș
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This is what passes for news nowadays? On Monday, Apple grabbed plenty of headlines with its claim that it will âspend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. in the next four years.â That sounds like a big dealâuntil you read further down in the announcement and realize itâs simply describing the money Apple spends in the normal course of business. Thatâs rightâAppleâs announcement was essentially a promise... Read more âș
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OKX, one of the worldâs largest and oldest crypto exchanges, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges by the U.S. that it operated an unlicensed money transmitting business. The exchange agreed to forfeit $420 million and pay a fine of $84 million, the U.S. Justice Department said. The ... Read more âș
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The Trump Administration told agency leaders Monday that they could ignore statements from billionaire Elon Musk that federal employees will lose their jobs if they donât send an email by late tonight detailing what they accomplished last week. According to the Washington Post, the Office of ... Read more âș
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Pronto, a seven-year-old startup co-founded by Anthony Levandowski, one of the founders of Waymo, said Monday it reached an agreement to use its autonomous driving technology on 100 trucks operating at Heidelberg Materialsâ sites around the world over the next three years. Pronto designs the ... Read more âș
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Rival crypto exchanges are stepping in to shore up the finances of the worldâs third biggest exchange, Bybit, after hackers stole $1.4 billion from the firm last week. In doing so, the crypto industry is hoping to calm investor worries that the hack could lead to another FTX-like implosion. Several exchanges, including Bitget and MEXC, have made emergency loans to Bybit to replenish tokens lost in the hack so Bybitâs... Read more âș
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Anthropic on Monday released its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Claude Code, a coding assistant that aims to compete with similar products from Anysphere and Replit. Those companiesâ coding assistants are powered by Anthropic software, meaning that Anthropic is ... Read more âș
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You donât have to look far to find examples of artificial intelligence startups fetching wild valuations, as some in-the-works deals for robotics and startups founded by OpenAI alumni have shown. But such examples obscure changes in how investors are valuing AI startups. The biggest developers of foundation models, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are now cheaper than they were a year ago, based on their valuations as a multiple of... Read more âș
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Microsoft said its plan to spend $80 billion on data centers in the fiscal year that ends in June âremains on trackâ despite a report from the investment firm TD Cowen on Friday saying the company was cancelling leases with data center operators. The report did not specify when the leases were ... Read more âș
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Cohere, one of the earliest venture-backed developers of artificial intelligence models, has faced plenty of headwinds in the last two years. The company has been under threat from better-funded competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic and faces competition from cheap, open-source alternatives like DeepSeek.In spite of all that, the company is still growing at a decent clip, though its business remains tiny compared to those of its competitors. Annualized revenue hit... Read more âș
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Salesforce announced it had picked Google Cloud as a major cloud provider, in addition to Amazon Web Services, after negotiations that also encompassed Microsoft and Oracle. The deal gives Salesforce customers to use Googleâs Gemini artificial intelligence models to build Salesforce-branded AI ... Read more âș
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Just over a year ago, Brex had the makings of the latest Silicon Valley trainwreck. The corporate credit card startup was blowing through the billions in venture capital it had raised. Growth had slowed, competition increased and its valuation had tumbled. Brex named its 28-year-old cofounder Pedro Franceschi as sole CEO. He launched a turnaround, preaching a new less-is-more, command-and-control ethos to stem the bleeding. His cofounder and face of... Read more âș
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Alibaba Group said Monday it plans to invest at least 380 billion yuan ($53 billion) over the next three years in cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The amount is larger than the companyâs total cloud and AI spending over the past decade. Alibaba is betting on the ... Read more âș
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Apple has long-term plans to integrate its new in-house modem into its iPhone processor, Bloomberg reported Sunday. The move, which could happen as early as 2028, could make the iPhone more energy efficient and further reduce its costs, the report said. Modems typically have their own processors ... Read more âș
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Elon Musk told federal workers Saturday to detail their achievements for the last week or risk losing their jobs. In a post on XÂ Saturday, Musk said federal employees would âreceive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,â adding that âfailure to respond will be ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: How Apple and Qualcomm share techâs rockiest marriage ⹠Policy and Safety: New push for safety laws could lift parents fatigued by tech worriesâą The Top 5: Silicon Valleyâs favorite snow toys ⹠Shopping: Techâs winter it item? The humble woolen ski sweaterâą Plus, our Recommendations: The podcast disassembling âSeveranceâ; a godfather who gets another life; and the Hilary Duff show you... Read more âș
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For decades, skiers and snowboarders have seen the techiest, most highly engineered synthetic fabrics as the pinnacle of alpine function and fashionâa sentiment held with particular vehemence by the hordes of snowsports enthusiasts who stream out of the Bay Area each weekend for places like Palisades Tahoe and Heavenly. These days, though, one of the hotter items on the slopes is the traditional knitted wool ski sweater. The humble and... Read more âș
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Clint and Pam Legaspi tried to take a balanced approach when introducing their now-12-year-old daughter to technology. Her first device was an educational LeapPad tablet, not an iPad. Later, they ignored her requests for an iPhone and instead gave her an iPod Touch, but only after carefully curating its apps: giving her access to Pinterest, Messenger Kids and Roblox but not TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat. When her Bay Area elementary... Read more âș
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