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Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting

Researchers looked inside the chatbot’s “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling.

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CoreWeave CEO says lower IPO pricing was ‘where the buying interest was’

CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said on “Squawk Box” that the company had to “rightsize” its pricing ahead of the Friday IPO.

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CoreWeave Scales Back Ambition for Its I.P.O.

The company, which originally expected its shares to be priced between $47 and $55, will ask for $40 a share in a sign of stock market uncertainty.

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WhatsApp users can now add songs to their Status updates

WhatsApp launched a new feature on Friday, where users can include brief music clips in their Status updates, reminiscent of the Myspace era. Status resembles Instagram Stories and allows users to share photos, videos, and text that disappear after 24 … Continue reading

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YC-backed Taxo raises $5M to slash healthcare admin with its AI ‘reasoning engine’

YC-backed startup Taxo has raised a $5m seed round to save doctors time and money on admin work.

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned by Trump

Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt hydrogen trucking startup Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by President Trump, the White House confirmed to TechCrunch. Milton was convicted in October 2022 of one count of securities fraud and two counts … Continue reading

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Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild’, similar to bug attacking Chrome

The bug fix comes days after Google fixed a similar vulnerability under attack in its Chrome browser.

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Google rolls out user choice billing on Google Play in the UK

Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use other billing options instead of Google’s own system. The change kicks in on March 29, initially only to … Continue reading

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Taiwan accuses China’s biggest chipmaker SMIC of ‘illegally’ poaching tech talent

Taiwan’s justice ministry alleged that SMIC used a Samoa-based entity as cover to set up an entity on the island and has been “actively recruiting” talent.

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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.

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