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After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive
Snap’s long-awaited AR glasses, Specs, didn’t have the best debut. The company’s stock hasn’t been on the healthiest trajectory lately.…
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SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon
SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s…
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Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream
A security researcher said she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms due to a simple security flaw, which…
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Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B
Salesforce announced on Monday that it will acquire AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion. Formerly known as Intercom,…
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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced…
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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger
All eyes are on the SpaceX IPO — the world’s largest in history — and its CEO Elon Musk. But…
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Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about €3 billion ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported Friday, citing…
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Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts
Robinhood said it has seen “record-breaking” traffic on its trading platform Friday in the hours after SpaceX’s historic public markets…
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Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations
The notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them…
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Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing. Amidst…
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Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus
After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the…
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NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations
Anthropic has deployed around half-a-dozen engineers to the National Security Agency to help its spies use the company’s frontier cybersecurity…
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