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Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he's "not sure yet how/when it will get released" (Sam Altman/@sama)

Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is...

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Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in Pa...

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Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in Pa...

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Court filings: Google owns a 14% stake in Anthropic but holds no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights; it aims to invest $750M more in September (New York Times)

Court filings: Google owns a 14% stake in Anthropi...

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Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models (Reuters)

Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Ma...

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Sources: Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems, a Canadian maker of eye-tracking tech, for $115M, including $15M in performance-based payments (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Google is in final talks to acquire AdHaw...

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Delivery Hero says Uber has terminated its $950M deal to acquire Foodpanda in Taiwan and will pay a ~$250M termination fee after Taiwan's FTC blocked the deal (Reuters)

Delivery Hero says Uber has terminated its $950M d...

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Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $1B at the end of 2024 to $1.4B in early March; Manus uses tools including Claude 3.7 Sonnet to power its agent (The Information)

Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $...

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After tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft made huge bets on AI, the gadget boom that started with the launch of Alexa in 2014 has largely fizzled (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

After tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft mad...

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Review of the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory: opens up new workflows on a ~$10K desktop, like running a quantized 4-bit version of DeepSeek R1 (Dave2D on YouTube)

Review of the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of un...

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Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US to buy up to 1M BTC (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)

Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Sena...

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OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration (Emma Roth/The Verge)

OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build a...

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A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge, up 10x in 2024 per CoinGecko, vaulting it to the top tier of exchanges, as rivals question its growth (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume s...

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Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have "human-like" finesse, raised $95M at a $1.65B valuation, up from $1.4B in 2021, bringing total funding to ~$300M (Bloomberg)

Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have "h...

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Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Va...

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Sources: VCs with "locked" tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024's largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into circulation (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

Sources: VCs with "locked" tokens are working with...

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TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a "wind down" reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing "calming music to help teens relax" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under...

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TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a "wind down" reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing "calming music to help teens relax" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under...

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