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White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

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White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted that it takes "copyright infringement very seriously."

Lucas Ropek 5 days ago

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

Julie Bort 5 days ago

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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

Marina Temkin 5 days ago

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The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

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The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”

Anna Heim 6 days ago

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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.

Sarah Perez 6 days ago

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How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement

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How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement

Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we're expecting big news.

Amanda Silberling 6 days ago

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

Russell Brandom 6 days ago

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Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

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Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

Rebecca Bellan 6 days ago

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Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government

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Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government

Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the plant's owner is getting a $1.9B loan from the U.S. Energy Department.

Tim De Chant 6 days ago

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Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

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Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

Sarah Perez 6 days ago

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Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

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Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity.

Anna Heim 6 days ago

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A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it

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A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it

The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.

Zack Whittaker 6 days ago

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Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

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Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.

Dominic-Madori Davis 6 days ago

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Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight

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Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight

The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.

Sean O'Kane 6 days ago

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Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

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Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations.

Tim Fernholz 6 days ago

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Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch

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Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch

Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May — building AI copilots that give construction workers real-time, hands-free guidance through smartphones and Meta's AI glasses, backed by $25 million from Elad Gil, Khosla...

Connie Loizos 6 days ago

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A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

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A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.

Connie Loizos 1 week ago

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