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OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion, brings on CEO as applications executive

Statsig will continue to operate independently and serve customers out of its Seattle office, OpenAI said.

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Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits

An appellate court found that the Trump administration was within its rights to cancel billions of dollars in grants. The nonprofits that had their grants cancelled are expected to appeal.

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Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world

Lens Live will not replace Amazon’s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens.

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Anthropic raises $13 billion funding round at $183 billion valuation

Anthropic’s valuation has tripled since its last funding round in March

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Tesla’s fourth ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

Even Elon Musk agrees it was too generic.

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Amazon cracks down on Prime free shipping sharing

The company is ending the program in favor of Amazon Family, which lets users share Prime benefits with another adult, but they must share the same address.

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

Investors want to see Salesforce’s Agentforce artificial intelligence tool for customer service pick up traction.

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Bitcoin bucks stock market downtrend but lags gold rally

Bitcoin edged higher on Tuesday as stocks fell and gold shot to a new record.

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ChatGPT to tell parents when their child is in ‘acute distress’

It’s one of a number of parental controls being introduced by OpenAI, which is being sued over the death of a teenager in the US.

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Instagram tests Picture-In-Picture viewing for reels

The move comes as apps like TikTok and YouTube have had support for Picture-in-Picture for quite some time now.

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