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OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion

OpenAI is allowing current and former employees to sell more than $10 billion worth of stock in a secondary share sale.

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

CoreWeave hopes the YC-backed startup will help it expand down the stack, and cash in on enterprises developing AI agents.

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Google Search Monopoly Ruling Sends Signal for Big-Tech Antitrust Cases

A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts.

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OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1B, Names Raji CTO of Applications

New CTO of applications Vijaye Raji brings his testing business with him as OpenAI takes some application work off of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.

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SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches

SpaceX is one step closer to nearly tripling the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida.

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Pornhub owner pays $5M settlement to FTC over historic failure to block abusive content

Pornhub owner Aylo will pay a $5 million settlement to the FTC and Utah over allegations that the company knowingly profited off of illegal materials.

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Apple has survived Trump’s tariffs so far. It might raise iPhone prices anyway

As Apple prepares to unveil the iPhone 17, some analysts expect the company to raise prices even after all CEO Tim Cook has done to avoid the worst of tariffs.

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M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

The hack has caused severe disruption at manufacturing plants globally, with some staff told not to come into work.

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Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI 

The startup uses truck-mounted cameras to collect and analyze data about crop health.

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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts

When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted like a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.”

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