An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's “masculine energy”, Silicon Valley's “cloying conformity” and “combination of machismo and self-pity”, and more
When Britain's former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world.
A look at Apple's three-year iPhone redesign plan, starting with iPhone Air this fall, foldable with Touch ID in 2026, and a curved-glass “iPhone 20” in 2027
Apple is weeks away from its big product launch event, where it will lay the foundation for a once-in-a-generation iPhone overhaul.
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face
The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months. https://huggingface.co/...
How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape
“After such a long time, I couldn't really remember my voice,” Sarah Ezekiel tells BBC Access All. “When I first heard it again, I felt like crying.
Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity
and every American should be [video] Kelsey Piper / @kelseytuoc : @recurseparadox Congress can repeal the CHIPS act if they want to. (I think they shouldn't, but they could). But ‘Congress authorized ...
Twin Health, which uses AI-based digital twin tech to provide personalized diabetes and metabolic health guidance, raised a $53M Series E at a $950M valuation
The company plans to expand partnerships with health plans and employers to provide more individuals with digital twin technology designed to improve metabolic health.
A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor
I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code. — I asked my editors if I could go work at a tech startup.
The US CFTC staff describe chaos, cutbacks, and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia as the agency prepares to take on new crypto regulatory duties
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is poised to take on vast new responsibilities. Staff describe chaos, cutbacks and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia.
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press ...
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an “Apple Store-like experience”
This seems so random and sounds mostly like a way to reward a donor/supporter given all the cuts to US government IT staff. … Forums: r/technology : First interview: Joe Gebbia, America's chief design...
Tel Aviv-based Seemplicity, whose AI-based tech automates enterprise vulnerability and exposure management, raised a $50M Series B led by Sienna Venture Capital
Remediation operations startup Seemplicity has raised $50M in a Series B funding round.
A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs
David Attenborough has been making the video format of this for a lifetime [embedded post] Justin Ling / @justinling.ca : “It feels like podcasts speed-ran the development of an industry to the declin...
Austin-based Overhaul, an in-transit supply chain risk management company, raised a $105M Series C led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners
The company, which helps shippers track shipments and fight cargo theft, plans more acquisitions — Supply-chain risk management company …
Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B
“we'll give your entire country chatgpt plus for £2bn. please???” — also, fuck you peter kyle for even taking this meeting. Mateusz Fafinski / @calthalas : Two billion for country-wide access to Ch...
AI infrastructure company Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M
The US AI infrastructure company is acquiring the GPU management firm in a cash-and-stock deal. 25 Atero employees will become the company's development center in Israel.
UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022
Revenue from Chinese social media giant ByteDance's short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.
Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures
A startup called Cascading AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $29 million Series A funding round to support the expansion …
KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners
Self-styled “synthetic labor” startup KnowledgeLake Inc. has become the latest “agentic” artificial intelligence platform to attract millions in funding.
OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities” to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles
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How Raya, a privately held dating app with a waitlist of 2.5M people, found success through its rigorous user selection process and Fight Club-style rules
The privately held company has attracted an A-list clientele and even gotten Gen Z onboard with online dating. X: @tjtaylr X: TJ Taylor / @tjtaylr : Forever grateful for what we built at Raya, and pro...
A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, a part of its $60B US investment megaproject where some chips for iPhones will be made
Not gonna lie ... the last 8 months have been grueling. … Bluesky: Adam Levine / @notthatadamlevine : Texas Instruments has spent $52 billion in capital expenditures IN THE LAST 45 YEARS. This would ...
An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech
Ephrat Livni / New York Times :
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