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Anthropic Rakes in $183B Valuation as It Takes on Musk, Altman

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-18 18:00:51

Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude family of models, has secured a $13 billion Series F financing at a staggering $183 billion post-money valuation, nearly tripling its worth since March. Anthropic is backed by Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet. The company said that the round was led by ICONIQ Capital and co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with institutional heavyweights such as BlackRock, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Coatue am

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Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-18 22:54:27

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. It’s been a tumultuous summer for Scale AI: Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company, Mark Zuckerberg hired Scale CEO Alexandr Wang and other top staff, and Scale laid off 14 percent of its workforce. Now the latest development is a lawsuit over corporate espionage in the AI industry. The AI data labeling company, w

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Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-18 21:27:08

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age-estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

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Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-18 22:22:36

The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. To help with that transition, President Donald Trump has introduced potential chip tariffs and policies in recent months meant to bring more semiconductor manufacturing stateside. In late August, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step toward that goal w

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Google Is Bringing Gemini AI to Its Smart Home Lineup, Starting Oct. 1

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 02:20:24

It increasingly feels like Google's AI assistant is omnipresent across our devices and, starting next month, it could also be in your home. In an X post on Tuesday, the company teased, "Gemini is coming to Google Home" and told us to "Come back October 1." At its Made by Google event in August, the company announced Gemini for Home among a slew of other product announcements, so this has been in the works for a while. Tuesday's X post teaser appears to show an image of a Nest camera, which Go

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Instagram is finally launching an iPad app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-19 02:00:00

After years of people constantly nudging Instagram about releasing an iPad app, the social network is finally launching one today. This means users will no longer need to use the iPhone app, which is not optimized for larger screens, or Instagram for web on the iPad. The new app defaults to the Reels screen, allowing you to scroll up and watch short videos on a larger screen. The iPad app has nearly all the features of the phone app when it comes to consumption. Stories appear at the top of th

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Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-19 02:27:08

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

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Quantum computing startup IQM raises $320 million as investors pile into the tech

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-19 18:00:01

European startup IQM is aiming to build powerful quantum computers to rival the likes of Google and IBM. Quantum computing firm IQM says it's raised $320 million of fresh funding to ramp up investments in technology and commercial growth. The startup, which is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, was founded in 2018 by a team of scientists with the aim of building powerful quantum computers in Europe like the machines companies such as Google and IBM are building in the U.S. Quantum computers are

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Translation startup DeepL launches an AI 'agent' in challenge to players like OpenAI

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-19 18:40:12

German startup DeepL on Wednesday said it was expanding beyond artificial intelligence-powered translation into general AI agents focused on businesses. The term "agent" refers to an AI tool that can carry out tasks in the background in response to user prompts. DeepL Agent is designed to complete "repetitive, time-intensive tasks across a wide variety of functions" according to the company. It can responds to natural langauge commands from a users. DeepL Agent can be used in various teams fro

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reMarkable’s Paper Pro Move is a pocketable version of its e-paper tablet

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 18:00:11

reMarkable knows you’d like to use its e-paper tablet on the go, but the size of its current products don’t make that easy. To address this, it’s launching a smaller, pocket-sized version of its flagship slate for folks who can’t luxuriate at a desk or armchair to do their thinking. The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is a slate with a 7.3-inch display that’s the same size as a reporter’s notepad. It’s a device that Chief Product Officer Mats Herding Solberg says is perfect for getting “real work done

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Brand new unicorn IQM sets its sights beyond Europe for its quantum computers

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-19 18:20:34

Finnish quantum computing startup IQM is now a unicorn: The company just raised more than $300 million in a Series B funding round that was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a U.S. investment firm focused on cybersecurity. A university spinout, IQM builds quantum computers meant for on-premises installations as well as a cloud platform that taps this hardware. The company has already sold its quantum computers to enterprises in APAC and the U.S., but its strongest market remains Europe. That’s what

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Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-19 23:02:20

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein A spokesperson from Shein told BBC News: "The image in question was removed immediately upon discovery." It is thought the product he appeared to be modelling was on sale for just under $10 (£7.50). An image with his likeness, which appeared to show him wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt, appeared on the fast-fashion website until its removal. Fast-fashion giant Shein has launched an investigation after an image of Luigi Mangione - acc

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Building the AI-enabled enterprise of the future

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-20 00:38:43

“This is one of those inflection points where I don’t think anybody really has a full view of the significance of the change this is going to have on not just companies but society as a whole,” says Patrick Milligan, chief information security officer at Ford, which is making AI an important part of its transformation efforts and expanding its use across company operations. Given its game-changing potential—and the breakneck speed with which it is evolving—it is perhaps not surprising that comp

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JBL just announced its largest-ever battery-powered party speaker

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 01:00:24

JBL just announced the PartyBox 720, which is an extremely chonky party speaker. As a matter of fact, it's the company's largest-ever battery-powered party speaker. The thing is bigger than many human children. It boasts 800W of power with up to 15 hours of playtime via a replaceable battery. There are two 9-inch woofers and a pair of 30mm dome tweeters, which should provide for robust audio. The company has included its proprietary AI Sound Boost technology, which increases audio without disto

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Motion Sickness Sufferers, Rejoice: Scientists Say This Might Actually Help

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-20 01:00:43

Normally, I’d start this sort of article by saying something along the lines of, “Everyone knows how horrible it is to feel motion sick.” But that’s not entirely true—plenty of people can text, read, and do all sorts of things in a moving vehicle without feeling the slightest bit nauseous. If that sounds like you, you’ll have to trust me—a chronic sufferer of motion sickness—when I say that it wholeheartedly sucks. Plus, many drugs used for motion sickness come with an unwanted side effect: dro

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Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-20 14:40:43

Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test drives of its robotaxis in Denver and Seattle this week, with humans behind the wheel, the company said Tuesday. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a company spokesperson said in an email. Waymo announced the tests in blog posts. The autonomous vehicle venture aims to expand its driverless, ride-hailing service across the U.S. after already launching commercial opera

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Google Won’t Have to Sell Chrome Browser After All (But There’s a Catch)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-20 14:35:42

A federal judge ruled in a high-profile antitrust case against Google on Tuesday with some good news and bad news for the tech giant. The good news for Google is that it won’t have to sell off its Chrome browser, which was a very real possibility. Google’s stock soared in after hours trading on the news. The bad news for Google was that it will be required to share data with its rivals and can’t sign many of the exclusive contracts that helped the company become so dominant in the industry. Th

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Apple's new chatbot reportedly rolls out ahead of iPhone 17 - but it's not for you

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-20 18:32:21

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has reportedly launched an AI chatbot for its retail staff. Asa is intended to be an automated digital sales assistant. The chatbot arrives just weeks before the launch of iPhone 17. Apple has reportedly launched a new AI chatbot -- for its employees, not for its customers. Nicknamed Asa, the chatbot is designed to serve as an automated digital assistant for the company's retail staff, maki

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OpenAI Gets Conspiracy-Brained, Sues Nonprofits

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-20 18:15:25

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have been locked in an ongoing standoff over the fact that OpenAI has operated like a for-profit business despite its nonprofit status. The fight, which has been ongoing in the court of public opinion for years and in the actual courts for months, is starting to rack up collateral damage. According to a report from the San Francisco Standard, critics of OpenAI have started receiving subpoenas from the AI firm over what the company’s leadership seems to believe is a consp

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OpenAI starts building out its app team

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-20 16:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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Tesla’s 4th ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-20 15:18:12

Tesla has published its fourth “Master Plan,” and at a high level it is about how the company wants to lead the charge into planet-wide adoption of humanoid robots and sustainable energy. But the post lacks an important building block of plans: specifics. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan since it was published on Monday — sandwiched in between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic — he agreed it was fair to criticize the lack of specifics and sa

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Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:54:00

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week. The internet giant revealed on Tuesday that the attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management and customer support, which contained 104 Cloudflare API tokens. Cloudflare was notified of the breach on August 23, and it alerted impacted customers of the incident on September 2. Before informing customers of t

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Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:25:00

Yesterday afternoon, while much of the country enjoyed Labor Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a new master plan for the company to his social media platform. It's the fourth such document for Tesla, replacing the goals Musk laid out in 2023 when he said the company would sell 20 million EVs a year in 2030. This time, it is not entirely sure what Tesla's plan actually entails. The text, which was reads as though it was written by AI, is at times anodyne, at times confusing, but always free of s

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-20 22:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-21 02:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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Tesla’s fourth ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-21 06:18:12

Tesla has published its fourth so-called “Master Plan,” and at a high level it is about how the company wants to lead the charge into planet-wide adoption of humanoid robots and sustainable energy. But the post lacks an important building block of plans: specifics. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan since it was published on Monday — sandwiched in between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic — he agreed it was fair to criticize the lack of specif

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-21 10:20:18

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, attends the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020. There was a moment, during the pandemic-fueled growth days of 2020, when Salesforce surpassed Oracle by market cap. Marc Benioff had finally toppled his protege, Larry Ellison. That moment is long gone. Salesforce's stock price has dropped 25% this year, the worst performance in large-cap tech and the second-steepest decline in the Dow, beating only UnitedHealth . Mea

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Tesla's latest 'Master Plan' isn't a mission statement, it's a discursive mess

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 10:23:01

Tesla has released part four of its so-called "Master Plan" in a post on X. Unlike the more focused " Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan ," which outlined concrete plans for future products, this "Master Plan Part IV" reads more like a rambling utopic fever dream that was partly written by Grok, while touching on Tesla's AI-powered products. Tesla says it intends to "deliver unconstrained sustainability without compromise," and that the company is "unifying our hardware and software at scale" in o

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A Call of Duty movie is coming

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-21 10:03:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Call of Duty is being adapted into a live action film as part of a new deal signed by Activision and Paramount. Paramount, the film studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, will “develop, produce, and distribute a live-action feature film” based on the franchise, and “both companies are committed to honoring the brand’s rich narrative and distinctive style,” the companies say in a pre

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Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-21 10:32:12

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAI’s chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company s

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Anthropic Rakes in $183B Valuation as It Takes on Musk, Altman

Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage

Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel

Google Is Bringing Gemini AI to Its Smart Home Lineup, Starting Oct. 1

Instagram is finally launching an iPad app

Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Quantum computing startup IQM raises $320 million as investors pile into the tech

Translation startup DeepL launches an AI 'agent' in challenge to players like OpenAI

reMarkable’s Paper Pro Move is a pocketable version of its e-paper tablet

Brand new unicorn IQM sets its sights beyond Europe for its quantum computers

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein

Building the AI-enabled enterprise of the future

JBL just announced its largest-ever battery-powered party speaker

Motion Sickness Sufferers, Rejoice: Scientists Say This Might Actually Help

Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

Google Won’t Have to Sell Chrome Browser After All (But There’s a Catch)

Apple's new chatbot reportedly rolls out ahead of iPhone 17 - but it's not for you

OpenAI Gets Conspiracy-Brained, Sues Nonprofits

OpenAI starts building out its app team

Tesla’s 4th ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack

Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion

Tesla’s fourth ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

Tesla's latest 'Master Plan' isn't a mission statement, it's a discursive mess

A Call of Duty movie is coming

Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion

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