A top Meta Platforms executive who oversaw the infrastructure behind its AI models is leaving the company. Aparna Ramani, Metaâs vice president of engineering for AI infrastructure, announced her departure Tuesday in an internal memo seen by The Information. She reported to Metaâs chief AI ... Read more âș
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General Catalyst appointed Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora to its board, the investment firmâs CEO Hemant Taneja said Tuesday. Arora will serve as the firmâs first lead independent director, joining Taneja and General Catalyst chairman and managing director Kenneth Chenault on the board, the ... Read more âș
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Major crypto exchanges and custodians including Coinbase and Binance are racing to prepare for powerful AI models like Anthropicâs Mythos, which the AI firm says could be dangerously good at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Coinbase, the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, has been in âclose communicationâ with Anthropic about Mythos, âa highly restricted model not available to the public,â Coinbase Chief Security Officer Philip Martin said. âMythos, and future models... Read more âș
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Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, according to a person with knowledge of the products. Those new products could be released as soon as this week, the person said. Anthropicâs upcoming ... Read more âș
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Uberâs surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropicâs Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026, according to chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli Naga.âI'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already,â Neppalli Naga said in an interview.Neppalli Nagaâs comments highlight the challenges for companies trying to take advantage of new AI... Read more âș
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If youâre like me, youâve been watching the explosion of data labeling and reinforcement learning environment startups with a mix of confusion and awe. These companies, which hire experts in fields like medicine, law and software engineering and build fake copies of apps like Salesforce and Excel to produce training data for AI models, are rapidly growing both in terms of revenue and valuations. But their moment in the sun... Read more âș
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Polymarket was already under pressure to curb insider trading when it launched a program late last year to support startups that sent trades to its prediction market. Those companies quickly began handing suspected insider trading accounts to their own customers, letting them copy those trades. Now Polymarket has launched an audit of those startups. Among them are Kreo, which promises to help users âfind insiders before the rest,â and Polycool,... Read more âș
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Amazon will buy satellite firm Globalstar for about $11.5 billion and power satellite features on Apple iPhones, the company said Tuesday, in an effort to challenge SpaceXâs Starlink by adding a direct-to-cell service for its upcoming Leo satellite offering. Globalstar owns wireless spectrum and ... Read more âș
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The mysteries of SpaceX are no more. My colleague Cory Weinberg today wrote the second of two stories in four days that pulled back the curtain on the finances of Elon Muskâs space company, which is planning to go public in a couple of months. You donât have to wait for the formal IPO filing to get the dirt on SpaceX.The bottom line is that SpaceX as a whole is... Read more âș
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A new set of numbers for Elon Muskâs SpaceX makes it clear that the success of its potential initial public offering will depend on investors embracing the growth of the companyâs Starlink satellite internet business. The other two businesses inside SpaceXârocket launches and AIâare burning cash and not generating the kind of growth that makes investors willing to pay the staggering valuation Musk is seeking, according to previously unreported financial... Read more âș
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Thinking Machines Lab has hired Rudolf Laine and Luke Drago, the co-founders Workshop Labs, a one-year-old startup that develops software for personalizing AI systems, and has bought the startupâs technology, according to a spokesperson for Thinking Machines. The price of the deal was not ... Read more âș
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Dell and HP shares fell about 3% after hours Monday after Nvidia denied a report from website SemiAccurate that claimed the chip giant had been negotiating a deal for more than a year to acquire a large company that makes personal computers. The report didnât identify the company but Dell and ... Read more âș
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AI firmsâ voracious appetite for more data has lifted sales for obscure startups doing the industryâs unglamorous work: contracting with lawyers, PhDÂ holders and medical doctors who grade the answers AI models generate. The latest is Handshake, a 12-year-old startup that began as a job site for college graduates. Handshakeâs gross annualized revenue from AI training has risen to nearly $1 billion, up from $550 million in January and $5... Read more âș
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Microsoft is playing catch-up in the AI power race by grabbing big sites in Texas and West Virginia for data centers fired by natural gas. It wasnât long ago that the company had a big lead.In the early days of the AI boom, Microsoftâs in-house energy team amassed a 9-gigawatt war chest of grid-powered data center sites that was the envy of the industry, according to people with knowledge of... Read more âș
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An OpenAI executive said in a memo to staff Sunday that the company is seeing âstaggeringâ demand for its upcoming joint product with AWS and that its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft had âlimited our ability to meet enterprises where they are,â CNBC reported Monday. As one of OpenAIâs ... Read more âș
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AI developers are getting more creative in how they acquire data to train AI models. For instance, theyâre paying startups to develop copies of popular apps, like Salesforce or Excel, to teach models how to use the appsâotherwise known as reinforcement learning environments or gyms.One beneficiary of this trend is Fleet, a two-year-old startup that develops and sells those RL environments. The startup is now in talks to raise at... Read more âș
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Tether, the worldâs biggest stablecoin issuer, has hired Jeremy Pollack, most recently vice president of Kinexys by JPMorgan, the bankâs blockchain business unit, to be its institutional expansion manager. Based in New York City, Pollack will build institutional partnerships to promote the usage ... Read more âș
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As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features that would make its AI assistant Copilot function more like OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has taken the AI industry by storm in recent months. A newly created team under Microsoft corporate vice president Omar Shahine is âexploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context,â including a team of always-on agents... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed an attack on his San Francisco home in a personal blog post on Friday, noting rising criticism of the AI industry and saying there is a need to âde-escalate the rhetoric.â Earlier that day, San Francisco police arrested a man for allegedly throwing a Molotov ... Read more âș
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We interrupt our regular AI programming to talk about something more entertaining: Netflix! The video-streaming giant kicks off tech earnings season on Thursday with its first-quarter earnings. Itâs the first quarterly report since Netflix walked away from its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discoveryâs streaming and studio operations, so that distraction is gone. Now weâre back to guessing how long Netflix can keep growing at its recent annual... Read more âș
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