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Exclusive: Figure CEO Brett Adcock Launches New AI Lab With $100 Million in Funding

Dec 18, 2025 · 11:02am PST
The lab is part of a broader trend of neolabs aiming to exploit new approaches to developing AI models they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic have overlooked.
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Thinking Machines To Release Models in 2026

Dec 18, 2025 · 8:06am PST
Thinking Machines was recently in discussions to raise between $4 billion and $5 billion in new funding at a valuation of at least $50 billion.
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China Builds Prototype of EUV Machine Used in Chip Manufacturing

Dec 18, 2025 · 1:19am PST
As the U.S. has blocked China’s access to key chipmaking equipment, Beijing is ramping up its effort to develop its own machines.
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YouTube Will Broadcast the Oscars Starting in 2029

Dec 17, 2025 · 4:45pm PST
The deal, which will end ABC’s 50-plus year run broadcasting the Oscars, highlights the growing strength of the streaming platform.
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Coinbase Launches Prediction Markets, Stocks Trading

Dec 17, 2025 · 3:26pm PST
The crypto platform is expanding beyond crypto in its bid to become an “everything exchange.”
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Salesforce Acquires AI Marketing Startup Qualified

Dec 17, 2025 · 3:20pm PST
The deal will give Salesforce access to Piper, an AI marketing agent that greets website visitors and gauges their interest in becoming customers.
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Micron Shares Surge After Company Beat Revenue, Gross Margin Projections

Dec 17, 2025 · 2:41pm PST
The company is projecting faster top line growth and higher margins amid ballooning demand for its memory chips from AI firms.
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Amazon Replaces Leader of AI Organization with AWS Exec

Dec 17, 2025 · 1:25pm PST
The company is also broadening its division focused on creating foundational models to also include efforts other efforts, like computing
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Anthropic Taps Bitcoin Miner With Trump Family Ties For Data Centers

Dec 17, 2025 · 12:31pm PST
Hut 8 is one of several publicly-traded bitcoin miners trying to pivot to building AI data centers.
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Oracle Shares Fall After a Data Center Financier Decides Not to Fund its Michigan Facility

Dec 17, 2025 · 10:11am PST · 1 comment
Blue Owl’s decision could spark concern across the industry that some large-scale projects might struggle to get financial backing.
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Coursera to Buy Udemy for $950 Million in Stock

Dec 17, 2025 · 8:06am PST · 1 comment
The combination will give the companies more scale to compete as AI threatens their businesses.
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WBD Rejects Paramount’s Offer

Dec 17, 2025 · 6:59am PST
Warner Bros Discovery questions the details of Larry Ellison's promised $41 billion equity backstop for the Paramount offer.
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Tesla to Face 30-Day California Sales Suspension Unless it Changes Marketing

Dec 17, 2025 · 6:35am PST
A California administrative law judge said Tuesday that the way Tesla markets its driver assistance software products misleads consumers about their capabilities.
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Tencent Names Former OpenAI Researcher Chief AI Scientist

Dec 17, 2025 · 2:58am PST
Yao Shunyu is overseeing Tencent’s model development as well as AI infrastructure.
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Manus AI Agent Reaches $125 Million Annual Run Rate

Dec 17, 2025 · 1:06am PST
The Benchmark-backed startup is still figuring out how to generate enough revenue to build a sustainable business model.
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Waymo Discusses Raising Billions at More Than $100 Billion Valuation

Dec 16, 2025 · 8:58pm PST
The new money would help fund an expansion into several more cities next year.
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Amazon in Talks to Make $10 Billion OpenAI Investment

Dec 16, 2025 · 8:52pm PST
AWS would not be able to sell OpenAI models directly to its cloud customers, however.
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U.S. Threatens Retaliation Against European Tech Companies

Dec 16, 2025 · 4:52pm PST
The Trump administration singled out companies such as Mistral and Spotify.
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Databricks Valued at $134 Billion in New Financing

Dec 16, 2025 · 2:06pm PST
The round will allow Databricks to continue to stay private while allowing employees to sell some shares.
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Former UK Chancellor George Osborne to Join OpenAI as Head of OpenAI for Countries

Dec 16, 2025 · 11:53am PST
Osborne will lead the expansion of OpenAI’s Stargate effort to build data centers around the world