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Musk backs $40bn Anthropic compute deal, rules out sabotage
Elon Musk has publicly pledged not to disrupt Anthropic’s $40 billion compute deal with SpaceX, a critical arrangement for the AI …
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Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
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Google will now tell you which ads were made with AI, if the advertiser admits it
Google is rolling out a feature that flags when an advertisement was made using AI. The label will indicate if an ad was created o…
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Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1. will go up against similar products offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Bezos opens Blue Origin to outside investors for the first time in 26 years
Jeff Bezos is letting outside investors into Blue Origin for the first time since he founded it in 2000. The rocket company is see…
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Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups
In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facin…
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News outlets ask a judge to sanction OpenAI in their landmark copyright fight
A group of news publishers has asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI. The New York Times, the Daily News, and others…
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New Jersey could ban Tesla’s Robotaxi with one line about sensors
For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now w…
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Musk says he always wanted SpaceX staff to get rich, and thousands just did
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s blockbuster listing has probably made thousands of his employees millionaires. Asked on The Sean Hannity S…
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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their …
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Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck
Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.
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AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations
The scramble to build AI data centres is pushing developers toward Native American land. Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth says…
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FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem
The video calls highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.
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Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation
A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.
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Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI
A new feature will indicate when advertisers have used generative AI tools to create or edit their ads, Google says.
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Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense…
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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
The Paris-based ElevenLabs competitor, just announced a hefty seed extension round.
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AI companies are spending hundreds of millions on the midterms, and they want one thing
AI companies and their backers are pouring vast sums into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs. The spending runs into the hund…
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OpenAI's Sol release exposes US regulatory vacuum
OpenAI is releasing a powerful new AI model despite an opaque, ad hoc US government safety process that leaves European regulators…
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Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off
Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at sca…
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EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March
The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursd…
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Anthropic puts the man who steered the Fed through 2008 on its AI oversight trust
Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company announced the mov…
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AI now wants half of America’s tech office space, and it’s all landing on a few streets
The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report f…
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Meta launches Muse Image AI tool amid privacy concerns
Meta has introduced an AI image generator that uses public Instagram photos by default, raising fresh questions in Europe over con…