The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the companyβs ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers.
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Five years ago, SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest revenue driver, expanding to over 100 countries. But as Starlink scaled, it faced a major hurdle: accepting payments in developing markets, where traditional banking infrastructure is unreliable, slow, and prone to blocking transactions. Many local banks across Africa, Latin America and Asia [β¦]
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Investor, former GitHub CEO, and all around Tech Guyβ’ Nat Friedman has posted a strangely enticing offer on X. His post reads, βNeed volunteers to come to my office in Palo Alto today to construct a 5000 piece Lego set. Will provide pizza. Have to sign NDA. Please DM.β Thanks to the investigative reporting of [β¦]
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The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage in a New York City art gallery turned theater for the night. Wine and water flowed through the intimate space as the house β packed with media β sat to witness the premiere of βDoomers,β Matthew Gasdaβs latest play [β¦]
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OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI "reasoning" model, o3-mini, the latest in the company's o1 family of reasoning models.
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What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if youβre the Swiss canton (βstateβ) of Basel-Stadt, you buy the domain that contains the typo, and create a redirect to the correct URL. As Swiss news [β¦]
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Microsoft says that itβs creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division that will help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI the company hopes to build. Microsoft AI, which encompasses Microsoftβs Copilot, Bing, and Edge products, is becoming core to Microsoftβs growth strategy [β¦]
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A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investorsβ attention. In addition to offering tools to easily build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds, Graze will soon allow feed creators to monetize their efforts with advertising, sponsored posts, and subscriptions. In other words, Graze has [β¦]
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Last year wind and solar energy overtook fossil fuels to provide 30% of the EUβs electricity. With that in the background, startups in the solar space have been riding a generational change in how we get our power. In 2022 we covered how a small B2C European startup planned to bring solar to homes via [β¦]
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Perplexity, the venture-backed startup building AI-powered search products, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another companyβs trademark. In a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a company called Perplexity Solved Solutions accuse Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by using the [β¦]
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Hackers are increasingly abusing bugs in popular enterprise software to target big companies in mass-hacking campaigns
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Stress isnβt just bad for you β itβs also bad for your employer. Factoring in absenteeism, diminished productivity, turnover, medical costs, and accidents, the nonprofit American Institute of Stress estimates that workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually. One way to measure stress is by monitoring cortisol levels. Even influencers know this, with [β¦]
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India's Tata Technologies has disclosed a ransomware attack affecting its IT assets.
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The Meta-owned company said the campaign was linked to Israeli spyware maker Paragon.
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Final hours for 2-for-1 Passes! One of the best Super Early Bird Deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be wrapping up in just 24 hours for the rest of the year. The 2-for-1 Pass lets you bring a friend, colleague, or business partner, for nearly free. Buy one pass at the Super Early Bird rate [β¦]
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Community Health Center (CHC), a Connecticut-based nonprofit healthcare provider, has confirmed that a hacker accessed the sensitive data of more than a million patients. In a filing with Maineβs attorney general on Thursday, CHC said it detected suspicious activity on its network on January 2 and determined that a βskilled criminal hackerβ had accessed its [β¦]
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Appleβs AI suite, Apple Intelligence, will soon be available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese, along with localized English versions for India and Singapore. During the companyβs Q4 2024 quarterly results call on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook said that the company will roll out support for these additional languages in [β¦]
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Welcome to Startups Weekly β your weekly recap of everything you canβt miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. The aftermath of DeepSeekβs launch was arguably the biggest tech story of the week, especially for anyone keeping a close eye on public markets. But private companies, [β¦]
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Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the company shared during its Thursday earnings call. Dave Zinsner, Intelβs co-interim CEO, executive vice president, and CFO, said the Silicon Valley-based company received the first tranche of $1.1 billion [β¦]
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The Pentagon is rushing to block DeepSeek on its network after some employees used the service, which stores data in China.
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