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Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of Genius Act

After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.

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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the … Continue reading

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Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

Microsoft’s data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.

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Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts

Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.

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Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian closes $260 million funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund

Defense startup Hadrian on Thursday announced the closing of $260 million Series C funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Lux Capital.

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After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday the closure of her award-winning beauty startup Ami Colé. 

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OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.

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Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue

Amazon has continued to lay off groups of employees this year eliminating more than 27,000 roles since 2022.

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Meta investors settle $8bn lawsuit with Zuckerberg over Facebook privacy

Shareholders accused Meta leaders of damaging the company by allowing repeat violations of Facebook users’ privacy.

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Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads

Meta appointed Connor Hayes, Meta’s VP of product for generative AI, to become the head of Threads.

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