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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation of at least $40bn. Accel,
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Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The company hopes to have an even better “automated AI researcher” by March 2028. Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Just a day after acknowledging another incident of "misalignment," OpenAI announced that it has reached its goal of developing an "automated research intern." According to a post on its
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Looking at you, gamers. Dontree_M/Shutterstock New iPhones are on the way, and upgrading can be tempting — especially with Apple's first foldable phone on the way. But picking the right model is about more than just choosing between shades of space gray. Storage matters too, and choosing
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Work out which features suit your child best to give them the best possible start with AI. OpenAI After almost a year of development, OpenAI released ChatGPT for Teens in August. The company is touting the experience as an educational tool with stricter content controls and features designed to promote
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It's a more nuanced discussion than you might think. Igor Bonifacic for Engadget Even if you only use an AI chatbot occasionally or not at all, there's a good chance you've run into the term vibe coding. For the uninitiated, it's a
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AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 putting the duty on the management body and allowing regulators
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Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview with founder and chief
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Generally, the launch of a new iPhone means a drop in price for the old one, but this isn’t a typical year for iPhones — not only is Apple expected to finally launch its long-rumored foldable phone, but thanks to out-of-control memory prices, it’s costing more for companies to
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We’re in the heart of the Labor Day weekend, and there are discounts on tech, outdoor gear and kitchen appliances that are perfect for a productive fall. Labor Day sales are often some of the biggest of the year, and they’re a precursor to Black Friday, Cyber Monday
