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2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTO

Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company’s augmented and virtual reality unit.

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Why investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicated

AI startups are reaching growth stage much faster. That’s exciting, but also risky, because investors might pour millions into a company only to watch it be unseated in a few months.

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Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust

Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit, and which has the power to elect some of the company’s board of directors.

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AI startups continue fueling San Francisco’s office recovery

Early-stage AI startups are imbuing new life into San Francisco’s Northern Waterfront, after years of “for lease” signs dotting the post-pandemic landscape. According to the San Francisco Business Times, five AI-focused companies — four backed by Y Combinator — recently … Continue reading

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Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference

Figure AI has drawn attention for making claims that its AI-powered robots possess human-like fine motor skills and can manipulate objects with precision but hasn’t done a live demonstration of the humanoids.

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The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts

The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts.

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Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped design Rivian’s first electric bike

Lovefrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian’s first electric bike, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch. 

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Genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics criticized for its embryo product: ‘Makes me so nauseous’

Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing startup founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, is once again courting controversy.

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EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text

EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it’s claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

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Clean energy investment hits new highs and shows no sign of slowing

Global investments in clean energy are likely to hit new highs in 2025, according to a new IEA report.

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