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Madrona just announced its biggest fund ever, closing on $770M as other venture funds grow smaller

23 January 2025 at 22:13

Seattle-based Madrona Capital is celebrating its 30 years in business by raising $770 million in fresh capital. This is the firm’s largest fundraise to date, exceeding $690 million across two funds Madrona closed in 2022.  While an 11% capital pool upsize may not seem significant, any increase at a time when many venture outfits are […]

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Reliance plans world’s biggest AI data centre in India, report says

23 January 2025 at 18:23

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of three gigawatts to capitalize on surging AI demand. The facility would dwarf the current largest data center, Microsoft’s 600-megawatt site in Virginia, Bloomberg reported Friday. The project could cost between $20 billion to […]

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Tesla’s redesigned Model Y is coming to North America in March for $60,000

23 January 2025 at 17:16

Tesla has announced that its redesigned Model Y SUV is coming to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in March, with a starting price just shy of $60,000. The news comes just two weeks after Tesla revealed the new-look Model Y and said the SUV was coming to China and other Asian markets, also in March. […]

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Even some of the best AI can’t beat this new benchmark

23 January 2025 at 15:29

The nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI, a company that provides a number of data labeling and AI development services, have released a challenging new benchmark for frontier AI systems. The benchmark, called Humanity’s Last Exam, includes thousands of crowdsourced questions touching on subjects like mathematics, humanities, and the natural sciences. To make […]

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JetBrains launches Junie, a new AI coding agent for its IDEs

23 January 2025 at 14:10

JetBrains, the company behind coding tools like the IntelliJ IDE for Java and Kotlin (and, indeed, the Kotlin language itself), on Thursday launched Junie, a new AI coding agent. This agent, the company says, will be able to handle routine development tasks for when you want to create new applications β€” and understand the context […]

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Trump orders formation of working group to evaluate crypto stockpile

23 January 2025 at 14:01

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the formation of a working group to propose federal regulations for β€œdigital assets” β€” including cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and stablecoins β€” and evaluate a national crypto stockpile. Ex-PayPal COO and founder of VC firm Craft Ventures David Sacks, Trump’s pick for crypto an AI β€œczar,” will lead the working […]

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OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days

23 January 2025 at 14:00

OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company’s AI β€œagent” tool, for up to 90 days β€” even after a user manually deletes them. OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. However, the retention period for ChatGPT is only […]

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Everyone wants MrBeast on their TikTok bid, but he hasn’t committed yet

23 January 2025 at 13:51

MrBeast is in talks to join a number of bids to buy TikTok, but he hasn't chosen any of them exclusively yet.

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Anthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errors

23 January 2025 at 12:53

In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI’s Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature for its developer API called Citations, which lets devs β€œground” answers from its Claude family of AI in source documents such as emails. Anthropic says Citations allows its AI models to provide detailed references to β€œthe exact […]

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Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch burns

23 January 2025 at 12:38

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surrounding its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit agreed to recall […]

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Threads rolls out a post scheduler, β€˜markup’ feature, and more

23 January 2025 at 12:23

While Meta lures TikTok creators to Instagram and Facebook with cash bonuses, its X competitor Instagram Threads is now making things easier for creators, brands, and others who need more professional tools to manage their presence on the app. On Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a small handful of new features coming to Threads, […]

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Tom Brady’s Autograph merges with digital fitness company Future

23 January 2025 at 12:06

Autograph, the NFT company co-founded by Tom Brady, is merging with the digital fitness company Future. As part of the merger, Brady will join the board of directors of Future and serve as co-chair of the company.  Brady co-founded Autograph in 2021 to find ways to connect athletes and artists with fans, ultimately launching an […]

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Hidden Waymo feature let researcher customize robotaxi’s display

23 January 2025 at 11:59

Security researcher Jane Wong found a hidden feature that let her change the top display of a Waymo robotaxi.

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Trump’s not happy with how EU regulators have treated US tech giants

23 January 2025 at 11:57

President Donald Trump isn’t happy with how European Union regulators have treated U.S.-based tech companies, including Google, Meta, and Apple. Onstage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump put EU regulators on blast. He said that the EU’s cases against these U.S. tech companies are β€œa form of taxation,” according to Bloomberg reporting. Trump […]

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Epic brings third-party titles to its mobile game store

23 January 2025 at 11:30

Epic Games is adding third-party games to its mobile app store and helping developers cover associated iOS fees. The company is launching a free games program and will cover the cost for all titles from developers that participate in the program on iOS or iPadOS devices. With this program, Epic will roll out new free games […]

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OpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into Stargate

23 January 2025 at 11:15

We may now know roughly how much money SoftBank and OpenAI are contributing toward Stargate, the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. SoftBank and OpenAI each plan to commit $19 billion of capital to Stargate, according to The Information. The two companies would then both own 40% of the […]

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Android 16’s first beta version brings iOS-style live notifications

23 January 2025 at 11:00

After releasing two developer beta versions last year, Google introduced the first public beta for Android 16 on Thursday. New features include live updates on the lock screen (like Live Activities on iOS), Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec for high-quality video recording, and a framework for developers to make their apps adaptable for different screen […]

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Substack introduces a $20M funding guarantee to entice creators to migrate to its platform

23 January 2025 at 10:59

Substack on Thursday announced the launch of its Creator Accelerator Fund, which provides a $20 million funding guarantee aimed at helping creators grow their audience and move their paid subscribers from another subscription-based platform (Patreon, Supercast, and others) to Substack. The company says the fund is designed to ensure that creators will retain all of […]

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X sees a jump in consumer spending on mobile, despite decline in daily active users

23 January 2025 at 10:43

Social network X has grown its in-app revenue over the past year, despite a decline in active users, new data shows. Global consumer spending in the X mobile app across both iOS and Android has climbed by 76.3% year-over-year, when comparing two similar periods in January, according to data from app intelligence firm Appfigures. However, […]

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