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Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second.

Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’

trial against OpenAI and Microsoft entered its final stretch on Monday, with testimony from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and current OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor.Sutskever drew the spotlight, revealing an ownership stake in OpenAI’s $850-billion for-profi

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Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

A curious case in Georgia serves as a warning for many parts of the US hastily approving data center developments without first updating their water systems to better monitor for severe upticks in usage. On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country’s biggest data center developments had guzz

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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March as the company shifted course.

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Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley.

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There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.

The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around Earth, and they’re too expensive. Most of the players are hoping that SpaceX’s Starship — expected to make its 12

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AI automates HR compliance, except for the area tech companies need

Artificial intelligence is transforming how companies handle compliance. Background checks run in real-time. Payroll monitoring flags discrepancies automatically. Predictive analytics anticipate employee churn before it happens.

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The Download: the hantavirus outbreak and Musk v. Altman week 2

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak Last week, eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship contracted a type of hantavi

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Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance

SponsoredIn partnership withOracle NetSuite In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency.

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Innovation abounds in device charging

SponsoredIn partnership withAnker The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade.

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Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering

SponsoredIn partnership withCapital One Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research.

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Bain sees US$100 billion SaaS market in agentic AI automation

Bain & Company has estimated a US$100 billion market in the US for SaaS companies using agentic AI.

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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

the platform is ri611. Or h924092b12ee797f, depending on who’s paying me.I work as an AI trainer. I assess whether a chatbot’s tone is natural or flat, affected or annoying.

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CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company

starting with a cliché, a piece of finance jargon that has recently slipped into the tech lexicon, but I’m afraid I must talk about “moats.” Popularized decades ago by Warren Buffett to refer to a company’s competitive advantage, the word found its way into Silicon Valley pitch decks when a memo pur

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Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system.

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Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe-coding tools, and what that might mean for office etiquette.

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Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.

India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult because of the country’s linguistic complexity, mixed-language usage, and uneven monetization patterns.

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We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what

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So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel insecure.

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Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year

Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC. Much of that total comes from a single bet, a $30 billion investment in OpenAI.