Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that […]

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Trump-appointed judge orders Trump admin to ‘turn the funding spigots back on’

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy said that the administrations actions were “neither reasonable nor reasonably explained.”

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Get ‘Balance of Speed and Quality’ From Claude AI Model’s Research Responses

New features let Anthropic’s Claude investigate complex queries, scan Gmail and Calendar, and search entire document ecosystems.

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Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

Codeium, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant tool Windsurf, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from […]

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Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh

Meal-kit company HelloFresh has added 70 all-electric Rivian vans to its fleet, the first major customer to buy the commercial EVs since the automaker ended its exclusive deal with Amazon. The 70 all-electric commercial vans represent nearly one quarter of HelloFresh’s fleet, which has already helped the company save an estimated 20,000 gallons of gasoline, […]

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Temu slashes U.S. ad spending, plummets in App Store rankings after Trump China tariffs

Trump’s tariffs have upended Temu’s business model and its advertising strategy.

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US Blocks NVIDIA Chip Sales to China – Company Projects $5.5B Hit

The US is keen to maintain its sovereignty in the chip market by blocking China from access to NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art hardware.

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Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS

One of the bugs was discovered by Google’s security researchers who investigate government-backed cyberattacks.

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OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s o3 AI model

An organization OpenAI frequently partners with to probe the capabilities of its AI models and evaluate them for safety, Metr, suggests that it wasn’t given much time to test one of the company’s highly capable new releases, o3. In a blog post published Wednesday, Metr writes that one red teaming benchmark of o3 was “conducted […]

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