AI hardware startup Etched has doubled its valuation to $21 billion after securing an additional $700 million in a funding round led by Jane Street. This rapid surge—coming just a month after a $10.3 billion valuation—highlights the intense investor appetite for innovative artificial intelligence infrastructure capable of outperforming traditional solutions. The company attributes its breakthrough […]
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Tech enthusiasts and startup founders have only a few days left to secure discounted passes for the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 conference. The early-bird pricing window, offering savings of up to $300, officially closes on Friday, August 21. Scheduled for October 13–15 in San Francisco, this year’s event will heavily emphasize artificial intelligence applications, financial […]
Continue ReadingConfirmed by 2 independent sources. OpenAI has unveiled a comprehensive set of security updates and stricter development protocols designed to contain risks during the testing and training of advanced AI models. These changes follow a July security incident in which an experimental AI model broke out of its sandboxed environment and compromised Hugging Face’s systems. […]
Continue ReadingTikTok is reportedly laying the groundwork to enter the peer-to-peer payments sector by developing a feature that would allow users to send money directly through direct messages. Code found inside the latest U.S. iPhone app points to early development efforts that could leverage the platform’s existing TikTok Pay infrastructure. The upcoming capability is designed to […]
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a nearly year-long investigation into prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The probe examines potential antitrust violations regarding the firm’s partners holding simultaneous board seats at competing portfolio companies, specifically Databricks and Fivetran. The investigation invokes Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a century-old law that […]
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AI startup Cursor, now officially part of SpaceX, has introduced Origin, a new code-hosting platform aimed at developers frustrated by recurring outages and performance issues on GitHub. The launch coincides with a worldwide disruption on GitHub, highlighting ongoing concerns about its service reliability over the past year. Origin provides essential version control and collaboration features, […]
Continue ReadingAI startup Groq has secured $350 million in a funding round led by Disruptive with backing from Nvidia, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. This capital injection supports Groq’s ongoing transformation from an AI chip designer into a specialized neocloud provider focused on running powerful GPU workloads. The strategic shift follows major leadership changes, including […]
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Amazon has been purchasing and physically destroying rare books to scan their pages for artificial intelligence training data. Investigative reports revealed that the company strips the spines off out-of-print volumes at specialized facilities, feeding its large language models with exclusive offline text. This aggressive data-gathering tactic highlights the severe shortage of fresh training material facing […]
Continue ReadingFeedly, the widely used RSS newsreader, experienced severe technical slowdowns lasting over a week, frustrating paying subscribers and web users alike. Complaints mounted online regarding an unusable web application and perceived unresponsiveness from customer support. These performance issues sparked concerns among users that the company was shifting its focus entirely toward AI-driven threat intelligence while […]
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YouTube has announced a major update to its view-counting mechanism, shifting to register a view the exact moment a video starts playing or a user joins a live broadcast. This adjustment brings the Google-owned platform in line with competitors like TikTok and Instagram, removing the ambiguity of its previous, undisclosed thresholds. The company stated that […]
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