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LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M

LM Arena, a crowdsourced benchmarking project that major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, has raised $100 million in a seed funding round that values the organization at $600 million, according to Bloomberg. Andreessen Horowitz … Continue reading

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says tariffs haven’t dented consumer spending

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company hasn’t seen any signs of consumers tightening their wallets in the face of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

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OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive’s AI devices startup for $6.4 billion

OpenAI said on Wednesday that it’s acquiring Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence devices startup io for about $6.4 billion.

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OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

OpenAI said it was buying io, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.

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Fortnite Returns to Apple’s App Store After Scoring a Legal Victory

Apple kicked the popular game out of the App Store nearly five years ago, prompting a court battle that was partially resolved on Tuesday.

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Filed raises $17M to automate the drudgery of tax prep

There is a new accounting software in town, coming in with a fresh $17.2 million raise and a desire to shake things up. The company, Filed, hopes to automate the grunt work. “The tax industry is facing a genuine crisis,” … Continue reading

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Jony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company

Famed Apple product designer Jony Ive will now lead creative and design work at OpenAI, the result on an usual deal announced on Wednesday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Ive have been working on an AI device that will move … Continue reading

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Microsoft says 394,000 Windows computers infected by Lumma malware globally

Hackers used the malware to steal passwords, credit cards, bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Trump administration may sell deep-sea mining leases at startup’s urging

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.

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Tensions flare between the US and China over Huawei’s AI chips

Just a few weeks after the U.S. and China made significant steps to de-escalate the growing trade war between the two countries, tensions are flaring again — this time over semiconductors. China’s Commerce Ministry in Beijing released a statement on Wednesday … Continue reading

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