The federal crash-reporting rule Tesla opposes could be on the chopping block

The Trump transition team wants to end a federal rule requiring automakers to report crashes when advanced driver-assistance or autonomous driving technology is engaged, Reuters reports. Federal safety agencies would lose the ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems should the rule — which went into effect in 2021 — […]
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Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model

Liquid AI, an AI startup co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, has raised $250 million in a Series A led by AMD. Per Bloomberg, the round values Liquid AI at over $2 billion. Liquid AI aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network. Liquid […]
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Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos are the latest billionaires to donate $1M to Trump fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon plan to donate $1 million each to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, according to reports from Fox and the Wall Street Journal.  TechCrunch has confirmed Altman’s plans to personally commit the money, which is not coming directly from OpenAI.    The donations from the billionaires follow plans by […]
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Broadcom stock jumps 21%, pushing company past $1 trillion market cap for the first time

Shares of Broadcom popped more than 21% Friday, pushing the company’s market cap beyond $1 trillion for the first time.

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Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark and the Transformation of Venture Capital

The opposing paths taken by two powerful firms — Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz — embody a profound debate about the future of an industry that funds and fosters American innovation.

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Why Anthropic’s Claude Is a Hit with Tech Insiders

A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?

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Amazon Plans $1 Million Donation to Trump’s Inaugural Fund

The move follows Meta’s donation of the same amount to the fund earlier this week.

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TikTok’s Last Stand, Google’s Quantum Breakthrough and the Cult of Claude

“The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going to save TikTok,’ and he absolutely did not say that.”

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What Happened to the Tech Industry’s ‘Perks Culture’?

After mass layoffs and a pivot to A.I., the tech industry has been scaling back on the splashy and quirky benefits it had become known for.

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Google debuts NotebookLM for enterprises

Google’s bringing its viral NotebookLM app to the enterprise via a new service for Google Cloud customers, Agentspace.
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