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Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.
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Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.
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Iran said it will target U.S.-linked data centers with new missile strikes, as the war between the U.S. and Iran escalates.
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher at Anthropic, responding Wednesday to a call for…
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OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
An October 2025 image of OpenAI’s UAE Stargate data center under construction. | Image: G42 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has published a video threatening OpenAI's planned Abu Dhabi datacenter if the US follows through on threats to attack the country's power plants, as reported earlier by Tom's Hardware. The video, which was published to an Iranian state-backed news outlet's X account on April 3rd, says the IRGC will carry out the "complete and utter annihilation" of US-...
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Today, I’m talking with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco. Cisco is one of those big companies that everyone has heard of but that most of us don’t have to interact with very much; it’s not really a consumer brand. But all of us are in some way using Cisco’s products and services every day because it makes a huge amount of networking equipment for other big companies, like telecoms and ISPs. It’s a guarantee that somewhere between me recording this and you watching, listening to, or reading it, the...
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The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.
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For years Mike McClary sold the Guardian LTE Flashlight, a heavy-duty black model, online through his small outdoor brand. The product, designed for brightness and durability, became one of his most popular items ever. Even after he stopped offering it around 2017, customers kept sending him emails asking where they could buy it. When McClary…
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A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent
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