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Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup

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Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup

The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.

Sean O'Kane 2 months ago

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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.

Lucas Ropek, Connie Loizos 2 months ago

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How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

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How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

Marina Temkin 2 months ago

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GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid

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GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

Tim De Chant 2 months ago

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Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

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Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

Amanda Silberling 2 months ago

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

Lucas Ropek 2 months ago

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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?

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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

Russell Brandom 2 months ago

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CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

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CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used across the government.

Zack Whittaker 2 months ago

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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today

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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

Rebecca Bellan 2 months ago

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Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV

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Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called it "maybe the most important thing we've launched to date."

Sean O'Kane 2 months ago

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Apple’s foldable iPhone could be just around the corner

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Apple’s foldable iPhone could be just around the corner

The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device.

Amanda Silberling 2 months ago

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It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords — and a new acronym to match. Say goodbye to FAANG and hello to MANGOS.

Julie Bort 2 months ago

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