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Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch

Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch

Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has prett...

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Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with t...

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OpenAI’s o3 suggests AI models are scaling in new ways — but so are the costs

OpenAI’s o3 suggests AI models are scaling in new ways ...

Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we’re now in the “sec...

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Hyundai is giving away free Tesla NACs adapters to its EV customers

Hyundai is giving away free Tesla NACs adapters to its ...

Hyundai said Monday it will send customers who have bought or leased an EV befor...

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Feds clear the way for robotaxis without steering wheels and pedals

Feds clear the way for robotaxis without steering wheel...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Friday proposed a ...

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Third member of LockBit ransomware gang has been arrested

Third member of LockBit ransomware gang has been arrested

LockBit is believed tobe responsible for at least $500 million in ransom payment...

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After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed

After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator,...

On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got “cancelled." They us...

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EV startup Canoo places remaining employees on a ‘mandatory unpaid break’

EV startup Canoo places remaining employees on a ‘manda...

Struggling electric van startup Canoo has placed its remaining employees on what...

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Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration

Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI...

Sam Altman dismissed what he called a "conspiracy theory" from a16z co-founder M...

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OpenAI says it has no plans for a Sora API — yet

OpenAI says it has no plans for a Sora API — yet

OpenAI says it has no plans to release an API for Sora, its AI model that can ge...

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Salesforce plans to hire 2,000 people to sell its AI products

Salesforce plans to hire 2,000 people to sell its AI pr...

Cloud software giant Salesforce is looking to hire thousands of new salespeople ...

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Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored

Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the...

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks' record-br...

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The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case

The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its ...

The US government is calling on a Perplexity executive to help make its case tha...

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Arlan Hamilton announces changes at Backstage Capital, will step into advisory role

Arlan Hamilton announces changes at Backstage Capital, ...

Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, announced Friday that her role at ...

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What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?

What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?

World models, also known as world simulators, are being touted by some as the ne...

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Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit

Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s conversion to...

Facebook’s parent company Meta is supporting Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’...

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GM ‘blindsides’ Cruise by giving up on robotaxis

GM ‘blindsides’ Cruise by giving up on robotaxis

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at GM’s decision to pul...

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Rhode Island says personal data likely breached in social services cyberattack

Rhode Island says personal data likely breached in soci...

State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be af...

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Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is moving its HQ from DC to California

Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is moving ...

Hyundai’s electric vertical takeoff and landing startup Supernal is shifting its...

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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content ...

OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-ge...