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Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company cont...

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora an...

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Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human ver...

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-cente...

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Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third f...

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Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board

Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board

Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, th...

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Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-f...

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben...

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Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for ent...

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

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New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand...

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, w...

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OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build...

OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic A...

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Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends with an acquisition by Caterpillar

Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends with an acquisition by ...

The startup had faced mounting pressure from dealers, farmers, and a co-founder ...

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Wait, could they still actually break up Live Nation?

Wait, could they still actually break up Live Nation?

A federal jury found that Live Nation has acted illegally as a monopoly -- but t...

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Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker

Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker

Doug Field had stints at Apple and Tesla before joining Ford in 2021.

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Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO

Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO

Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its...

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London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing

London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Way...

Waymo's commercial service will eventually follow testing if the U.K. government...

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Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos

Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the T...

In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Anthropic co-foun...

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Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites

Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-i...

Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they ...

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AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B roun...

Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion ...

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Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts

Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second...

One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI's ...

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Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive — listen now

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the...

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goe...

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Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app next month

Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app ne...

Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook a...

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Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco

Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in...

Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.