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Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows
Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit…
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Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet
For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has …
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a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most
Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup servic…
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Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the third time in 13 months, pushing the Series X to $800
Microsoft is raising the price of every Xbox console by $100 to $150, effective August 1. The increases push the Xbox Series X wit…
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Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.
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Klue says the hackers who stole its customer data are deleting it, but now a second group is making threats
Klue, the market intelligence firm whose breach earlier this month exposed customer data at LastPass, HackerOne, and nearly a doze…
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Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand
Unconventional AI, the startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, has released its first AI model, an image generat…
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Brent Hoberman on UK tech post-Starmer: 'Are we going to tax everyone to high hell?'
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General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI de…
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Google Finance exits beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings
Google Finance is exiting beta with a wave of new features, including a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, an AI-powered r…
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Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x
Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI sy…
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Sail raises $80M to make AI agents cheaper to run
Sail Research has raised $80m to make AI agents cheaper to run. The startup, founded by ex-Apple and ex-NVIDIA engineers, says it …
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Klue data breach descends into multi-gang extortion
A cyberattack on market research firm Klue has evolved into a complex double-extortion scheme, exposing the severe supply chain ri…
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Coval raises $28M to stress-test AI voice agents
Coval has raised $28m to test AI voice agents before they reach real callers. Its founder built the same kind of safety checks for…
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Taktile raises $110M to automate banking’s riskiest calls
Taktile has raised $110m in a Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The startup wants banks and insurers to hand their riski…
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Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds
Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A ro…
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From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI de…
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Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too
"There were employees doing things like, 'Claude is so helpful for me — it analyzes my calendar and my email and puts together a p…
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Google Finance gets a dedicated app for Android
Users will be able to access their watchlists, real-time market data, live financial news, and Google's AI-powered "Key Moments" f…
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Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule
The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned auto…
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, …
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Adobe to buy Emmy-winning AI video enhancer Topaz Labs
Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs to integrate on-device AI video enhancement into its creative software, a strategic move to secure e…
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Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter
Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a …
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Scaled Cognition raises $100M to build AI that won’t hallucinate
Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will no…