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Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from B...

Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, ha...

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OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research tool

OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT...

OpenAI is bringing a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT deep research tool...

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How do you define cheating in the age of AI?

How do you define cheating in the age of AI?

This AI startup raised $5.3M to help people “cheat on everything.” But in the ag...

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The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to change that.

The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to c...

Xerion says it has a new technique to produce highly refined cobalt in a single ...

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Intel reportedly plans to lay off over 21,000 employees

Intel reportedly plans to lay off over 21,000 employees

Intel is set to cut over 21,000 people, or roughly 20% of its workforce, with an...

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OpenAI exec says the company would buy Google’s Chrome browser if offered the chance

OpenAI exec says the company would buy Google’s Chrome ...

An OpenAI exec said during Google’s antitrust trial this week that OpenAI would ...

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Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand backed by Serena Ventures, WME

Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand backed by Sere...

Khloe Kardashian has formerly launched her new food company, Khloud, and its fir...

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Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue gen...

As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s...

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Uber customers can now earn Delta SkyMiles from rides or deliveries

Uber customers can now earn Delta SkyMiles from rides o...

Delta SkyMiles members in the United States can now start earning points when th...

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Tomorrow: Join Ali Ghodsi and Dario Amodei for a fireside chat

Tomorrow: Join Ali Ghodsi and Dario Amodei for a firesi...

Join this free virtual event, featuring Ali Ghodsi, the trailblazing co-founder ...

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Mark Zuckerberg once suggested spinning out Instagram as a solution to its ‘cannibalization’ of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg once suggested spinning out Instagram a...

In an internal email surfaced as part of the Meta antitrust trial, Meta CEO Mark...

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Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillanc...

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing critic...

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Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI

Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying...

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A new kids’ show will come with a crypto wallet when it debuts this fall

A new kids’ show will come with a crypto wallet when it...

A new animated kids’ series expected to premiere this year won’t be headed for a...

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Bluesky may soon add blue check verification

Bluesky may soon add blue check verification

Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to chan...

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Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital

Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from...