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OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.
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Q&A: How is American manufacturing evolving with AI and robotics?
Since the beginning of the year, the U.S. manufacturing industry has received trillions of dollars of investment from private companies, the federal government and foreign donors, with the manufacturing sector alone accounting for over 50% of private-sector research and development…
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Fox completes its $22B acquisition of Roku
A few months after DOJ investigators were probing the deal, Fox just completed its $22B acquisition of the streaming giant Roku.
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Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
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Anthropic may need to cut IPO ambitions as investors balk: Report
Anthropic may have to accept a lower valuation than the $1.5 trillion it had been targeting for its stock market debut, after a sharp tech sell-off spooked key investors, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
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The New York Times reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330 million
Letterboxd, an online platform for movie lovers, has grown dramatically in recent years.
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Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’
Alexis Ohanian is trying to figure out what’s next for user-generated content now that so much of the internet is “compromised.”
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Some AI agents use personal information to upsell wealthier individuals
Increasingly, people are asking personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to recommend goods and services to purchase, such as flights and health insurance. A new study found that some of these…
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Finding New Drugs Is Laborious. This AI Startup Is Skipping The Lab Work
Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data can speed up the plodding process of developing new drugs.
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Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI
Students using Google software in the classroom will not be allowed to access the company's search engine unless their school system also opts in to using artificial intelligence, the tech giant said Tuesday.
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Leading AI models are biased against certain accents when scoring interviews, presentations and tests
Artificial intelligence models replicate, and sometimes amplify, all sorts of human biases. In the last few years, University of Washington researchers have found AI has erased female characters from kids' stories, favored job applicants of certain races and genders and…
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ChatGPT advertising delivers more than 6 times less value for money than Google Ads
Advertising on ChatGPT has so far proven significantly less cost-effective for businesses than advertising on Google. This is the finding of a new study by Christian Schulze, associate professor of marketing at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, and Maximilian…