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Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-25 12:11:47

In Brief French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Mistral is also talking to French lenders like Bpifrance SACA to raise hundreds of millions of euros in debt, per Bloomberg. TechCrunch has reached out to Mistral for comment. Mistral, makers of the Le Chat chatbot, is one of the most significant players in the European AI landscape with a focus on open-wei

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Apple COO Jeff Williams to step down later this month

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-08-25 14:00:44

Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer, is stepping down from his role later this month, as announced by the company on Tuesday. Sabih Khan, who currently serves as the senior vice president of operations, has been appointed as the new COO. Williams has decided to step down in order to retire and hopes to “spend more time with friends and family, including five grandchildren and counting,” he stated in the press release. Before his retirement later this year, Williams will continue to

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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-08-25 15:24:15

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding at an approximate $1 billion valuation led by IVP, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. LangChain began its life in late 2022 as an open-source project founded by Harrison Chase, who was then an engineer at machine learning startup Robust Intelligence. After generating significant developer interest, Chase transformed the project into a start

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Jeff Bezos sells $666 million in Amazon stock as part of plan to unload 25 million shares

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-08-25 19:47:31

Jeff Bezos gestures as he leaves Aman Venice hotel, ahead of their expected wedding, in Venice, Italy, June 25, 2025. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sold nearly three million shares worth $665.8 million over two days in July, a regulatory filing Tuesday showed. The stock sale is part of a plan announced earlier this year that will see Bezos unload up to 25 million shares of Amazon through May 2026. Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, sold $736.7 million in stock during the final days of

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Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-25 19:14:52

Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO role later this month. In addition to his role as COO, however, Williams is also responsible for overseeing Apple’s design team. Once Williams officially retires later this year, Apple says that the design team will begin reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. From Apple’s press release today: Apple today announced Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer

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IDC: Mac shipments up 21% in Q2, but U.S. sales stalled ahead of tariff deadline

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-25 19:28:11

According to a preliminary report issued by IDC today, Apple saw the strongest year-over-year growth during Q2 compared to its closest competitors in the PC market, except in the U.S., where sales basically flatlined. Here are the details Based on today’s numbers, Apple outpaced the competition by a lot, with 21.4% growth year-over-year. However, it came up once again in fourth place with 9.1% market share. In practice, that translated to 6.2 million PCs shipped worldwide, up from 5.1 million

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Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire from company later this year

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-08-25 23:59:40

Jeff Williams, chief operating officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Apple said on Tuesday that Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, a 27-year company veteran, will be retiring later this year. Current operations leader Sabih Khan will take over much of the COO role later this month, Apple said in a press release. For his remaining time with the comapny, Williams will continue

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Apple COO Jeff Williams stepping down later this month

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-25 23:34:25

Apple has announced that Jeff Williams is stepping down as chief operating officer later this month. Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, will assume the COO role as part of what Apple describes as a “long-planned succession.” Williams joined Apple in 1998 as the company’s head of Worldwide Procurement. Prior to joining Apple, he worked at IBM for thirteen years across multiple operations and engineering roles. In his current role at Apple, he oversees the company’s entire w

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Mike Lindell lost defamation case, and his lawyers were fined for AI hallucinations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-25 22:15:51

Lawyers representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell were fined $6,000 after using artificial intelligence in a brief that was riddled with misquotes and citations to fictional cases. Attorney Christopher Kachouroff and the law firm of McSweeney Cynkar & Kachouroff were fined $3,000, jointly and severally. Attorney Jennifer DeMaster was separately ordered to pay $3,000. This "is the least severe sanction adequate to deter and punish defense counsel in this instance," US District Judge Nina Wa

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One of Tim Cook’s possible successors is leaving Apple

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-25 23:54:57

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, the company’s vice president of operations, will take over for Jeff Williams as chief operating officer later this month. In an announcement on Tuesday, Apple said the move is part of a “long-planned succession” that has Williams retiring at the end of this year. Williams, who oversaw the introduction of the iPo

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US government confirms arrest of Chinese national accused of stealing COVID research and mass-hacking email servers

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-25 23:40:42

In Brief The U.S. Justice Department has confirmed the arrest of Chinese national Xu Zewei, an alleged prolific contract hacker who carried out cyberattacks for China. Xu was arrested in Italy at the request of U.S. prosecutors. Xu and another Chinese national Zhang Yu, who remains at large, are accused in a nine-charge indictment of “hacking and stealing crucial COVID-19 research” from U.S. universities during February 2020. The DOJ said Xu worked for a company called Shanghai Powerock Networ

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We have a surprising underwater ally in combatting climate change: zooplankton

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-26 03:06:14

Odds are you aren't too familiar with the group of animals called zooplankton, which include copepods, krill and salps. On land, they're most commonly used as fish food. Underwater, however, they've been quietly making a substantial contribution to slowing global warming. The BBC reported on the latest research into zooplankton by an international team, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography , that detailed just how much these tiny critters have been impacting the planet's temperatu

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Fast cryptographically safe GUID generator for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 02:48:06

guid Fast cryptographically safe Guid generator for Go. By Stan Drapkin. Go playground package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/sdrapkin/guid" ) func main () { for range 4 { fmt . Printf ( "%x " , guid . New ()) } fmt . Println () for range 4 { g := guid . New () fmt . Println ( & g ) // calls g.String() } } 79c9779af20dcd21fbe60f3b336ed08c da2026d38edca4371a476efd41333d23 88c3033b002b0e73321509ef26de607f a84e961ff7f09f5210ea04585f152e73 WF8MvK5CUOrI-enEuvS0jw AOp8Voi5knpu1mg3RjzmSg gxOQRIVR

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SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-26 03:52:07

In Brief SpaceX is looking to raise fresh capital by selling new shares to insiders in a deal that would boost its valuation to around $400 billion, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The company’s strategy is to raise money via a fundraising round and separately hold a tender offer to allow employees to sell some of their shares to a select group of investors, anonymous sources told Bloomberg. SpaceX typically holds tender offers twice per year. SpaceX’s valuation has steadily climbed si

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Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 05:13:40

SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner Published July 8, 2025 Update on GitHub Base model: https://hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base Instruct and reasoning model: https://hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B Small language models are becoming increasingly important as users seek capable models that can be deployed efficiently. The community has produced a fascinating range of capable small models, each pushing the boundaries of what's possible at this scale. With SmolLM3, we're excit

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From Budget to ‘Wait, Is This Free?’, These JBL Headphones Get Prime Day Magic

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-26 07:45:28

There are tons of headphones out there these days. Some are wireless, some are corded. Some cost an exorbitant amount of money. That doesn’t make them the best of their kind, though. Actually, the best headphones are the ones that you’re comfortable wearing and the ones that sound fantastic. JBL makes some surprisingly great headphones at fair prices. They don’t have every fancy feature under the sun, but what they do offer is solid sound quality, dependable battery life, and affordability. And

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

news.ycombinator.com Liam Proven 2025-08-26 05:35:27

Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users. It is very rare for an article on The Register to cause friends of mine to contact me and anxiously ask if they should change their choice of tech, but SJVN's recent column, "Firefox is dead to me," did it. Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed

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This HP 14″ Laptop Costs Less Than Your AirPods at Best Buy’s Black Friday in July, Competing With Prime Day

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-26 11:10:52

In my lifetime, smartphones have gradually become the dominant tool for going online. Today, most people rely primarily on their phones to check email, keep up with friends on social media, or browse the web for all sorts of needs. In fact, I know several people who have ditched traditional computers entirely, relying solely on their phones to get things done. Yet I argue there are certain tasks that are still more convenient on a laptop than they ever will be on a smartphone. Working on large d

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Someone Is Calling Trump Officials Using an AI Clone of Marco Rubio’s Voice

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-26 11:35:25

Government employees keep getting calls from Secretary of State Marco Rubio—which would be bad enough, frankly, having to talk to that guy. But making matters worse, it seems that it’s not actually Marco Rubio but instead, an unidentified caller who is mimicking his voice with artificial intelligence software, according to a report from the Washington Post. The technologically advanced crank caller has reportedly contacted at least three foreign ministers, a governor, and a member of Congress,

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Parvati Shallow Says RIP to the ‘Black Widow’ and All That

wired.com Leah Feiger 2025-08-26 11:27:38

Parvati Shallow, the reality TV maven and one-time Survivor winner, can now also add published author to her list of achievements. The legendary schemer, who orchestrated scores of blindsides on the beaches of the Cook Islands, Micronesia, and Fiji, has published a new memoir from Penguin Random House titled Nice Girls Don’t Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power. The book, a deeply revealing, personal excavation of Shallow’s childhood, divorce, relationships, and experience with reali

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Short Sellers Are Making a Fortune as Tesla's Stock Collapses

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-26 14:51:45

They're making billions -- and Musk can't stop dragging the brand through the mud. Short Cake Tesla short sellers are making bank after CEO Elon Musk announced that he's doubling down on creating his own political party in the US, further shredding the brand and its tattered valuation. The company's shares slumped nearly seven percent on Monday, wiping out more than $68 billion in market cap. Investors who were shorting the EV maker — betting against its success, basically — were on track to

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Zorin OS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 19:37:56

Can I try Zorin OS before installing it on my computer? Absolutely! You can run Zorin OS from a USB drive to test-drive it without touching your computer's internal drive. When you're ready to install it, simply double-click on the "Install Zorin OS" icon on the desktop and follow the step-by-step instructions on the screen. How much does Zorin OS cost? You can download and use the Core edition of Zorin OS completely free. For more advanced features, additional apps, and support, you can purc

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This Is the Only Window Air Conditioner That Actually Cools My Old Home -- and It's on Sale for $50 Off at Home Depot

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 19:00:04

CNET's key takeaways The Windmill AC normally costs $349 for 6,000 BTUs, but you can often find it on sale on Windmill's website Amazon Home Depot Not only is the Windmill AC the easiest unit I've ever installed, it's the only AC unit I've tried that effectively kept my older and not well-insulated home cool during a heat wave. Bonus: It's actually stylish. Although, I still would have paid for an ugly one that works. Its normal price is higher than some other window AC units, but I've paid

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Impulse Buys Under $25 on Amazon That Make Surprisingly Great Gifts

cnet.com Desiree Denunzio 2025-08-26 19:06:00

Impulse buying can get a bad rap -- and for good reason. We've all purchased things in the spur of the moment that we didn't actually need. But impulse purchases don't always have to be something you'll regret, especially if you're shopping for the perfect gift. Impulse buying can lead to rare finds that surprise and delight -- and leave your recipient wondering how they ever lived without that wonderful and unique thing. We rounded up our favorite impulse buys that ended up being must-have pro

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Don't Miss This Iconic Conspiracy Thriller That's Now Streaming on Netflix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 19:30:04

We may be past the era of Peak TV, but it's always fun to look back at the plethora of shows that hit television, propelled unknown actors to superstardom, and dominated the conversation. There are so many good ones, with obvious examples like Lost, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. When Vince Gilligan's hit drug drama came to an end in 2013, I was left wondering what series would capture the cultural zeitgeist next. I never thought it would be a show about the internet, of all things, but it w

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Wayve CEO Alex Kendall brings the future of autonomous AI to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-26 19:15:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, bringing together more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders for a deep dive into the future of technology. One of the most compelling conversations on one of the AI Stages will feature a panel of innovators redefining what intelligent systems can do — and among them is Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve. From research breakthrough to real-world autonomy Kendall founded Wayve in 2017 with a bold vision: to unloc

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Building an innovation ecosystem for the next century

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-08-26 23:00:00

Megan: And last year, when Michigan's Governor Whitmer announced this new initiative and your position, she noted the need to foster this sort of culture of innovation. And we hear that a lot that terminal in the context of company cultures. It's interesting to hear in the context of a U.S. state's economy. I wonder what your strategy is for building out this ecosystem, and how do you foster a state's innovation culture? Ben: Yeah, it's an awesome point, and I think I mentioned earlier that I c

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Beats Studio Buds Plus Are Cheaper Than Any Big Shopping Event Last Year, Only for 2025 Prime Day

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-08-26 23:10:56

Are your earbuds getting a little worn out? We all like to hang onto our treasured earbuds and headphones for as long as possible, because at one point, they probably did a great job. It’s okay to just retire them though, and if you’re hitting that point in the cycle, or you’re just ready to upgrade because you can, then we’ve got an incredible deal today. See at Amazon You can grab the amazing Beats Studio Buds+ earbuds for just $100 right now. That’s $70 off (-41%) the normal price, but this

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Hisense 85″ Canvas Google Smart TV Is $2,000 Off for Prime Day, Record Low on This Just 3-Month-Old Model

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-26 23:45:14

For the longest time, Samsung seemed to be the only TV manufacturer to have this art canvas-style smart TV that is designed to look like a painting when not in use. Hisense has thrown its hat into the ring. The Hisense CanvasTV, much like Samsung’s The Frame, uses an anti-glare panel with a hi-matte display. This way when its set to Art Mode when not watching TV or playing games, it shows high quality paintings that look pretty dang close to a real painting or print due to the lack of reflection

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Fitness and Wellness Deals Worth Adding to Cart on Amazon Prime Day July 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 23:33:00

Speediance is known for its AI-powered home workout machines. For Prime Day, its original Gym Monster is on sale for 30% off (originally $3,049) and the Gym Monster 2 (originally $3,749) is 10% off. The Gym Monster is meant to be used as a strength training smart home gym in your living room complete with cables and the AI experience. If you want to take it a step further, the Gym Monster 2 is the newest version and offers a smaller footprint and folds down to only 1.2 feet. Either way, this all

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Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

Apple COO Jeff Williams to step down later this month

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

Jeff Bezos sells $666 million in Amazon stock as part of plan to unload 25 million shares

Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year

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Fast cryptographically safe GUID generator for Go

SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

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Hisense 85″ Canvas Google Smart TV Is $2,000 Off for Prime Day, Record Low on This Just 3-Month-Old Model

Fitness and Wellness Deals Worth Adding to Cart on Amazon Prime Day July 2025

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