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Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

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Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

Kirsten Korosec 4 weeks ago

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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistant...

Sarah Perez 4 weeks ago

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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

Zack Whittaker 4 weeks ago

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Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark

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Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

Ram Iyer 4 weeks ago

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Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now

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Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.

Dominic-Madori Davis 4 weeks ago

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Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Russell Brandom 4 weeks ago

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India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate

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India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate

The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.

Jagmeet Singh 4 weeks ago

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OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to...

Theresa Loconsolo 4 weeks ago

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Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5 million via crypto sale

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Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5 million via crypto sale

Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised some fresh cash through a crypto sale.

Lucas Ropek 4 weeks ago

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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

Rebecca Bellan 4 weeks ago

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Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs

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Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs

The carmaker has said it's owed a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."

Sean O'Kane 4 weeks ago

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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

Sarah Perez 4 weeks ago

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Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

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Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

Amanda Silberling 4 weeks ago

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OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

Ivan Mehta 4 weeks ago

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Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system

Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.

Ivan Mehta 4 weeks ago

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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 1 month ago

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Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup

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Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups.

TechCrunch Events 1 month ago

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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

Kirsten Korosec 1 month ago

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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

Lucas Ropek 1 month ago

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Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.

Aisha Malik 1 month ago

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