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Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises $600M at $9B valuation

Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, Neuralink, has raised $600 million in a funding round that values the company at $9 billion pre-money, Semafor reported, citing anonymous sources. Semafor did not mention the investors involved in the round. Neuralink last raised … Continue reading

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Litehaus raises €1.46M pre-seed to build home-building platform

All Thibault Launay and his wife Simi wanted nearly five years ago was to build a dream home in Portugal, where they both now live.  But what they encountered instead was a broken system. “Fourteen months of delays, 20% budget … Continue reading

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Opera’s new browser can code websites and games for you

Opera’s new browser, called Opera Neon, will focus on AI workflows and performing tasks for you, like shopping, coding and generating reports.

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Humain planning $10B VC fund to invest in US, European and Asian startups

Humain, the state-owned AI company from Saudi Arabia, is reportedly on track to launch a $10 billion venture fund, Humain Ventures.

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SpaceX’s ninth test flight of Starship launches into space, ends in a spin

SpaceX’s Starship successfully separated from its Super Heavy rocket booster and reached orbit Tuesday evening, but later began spinning and made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Indian Ocean. SpaceX had cleared the surrounding airspace where Starship was coming down, according … Continue reading

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OpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other apps

OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into … Continue reading

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Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps. The voice mode allows Claude mobile app users to have “complete spoken conversations with Claude,” and will arrive in English over the next few weeks, according … Continue reading

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Meta reportedly splits its AI team to build products faster

Now, the company’s AI personnel will be assigned to an AI products team, or an AGI Foundations unit. No jobs appear to have been cut.

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AI may already be shrinking entry-level jobs in tech, new research suggests

If and when AI will start replacing human labor has been the subject of numerous debates.   While it’s still hard to say with certainty if AI is beginning to take over roles previously done by humans, a recent survey from … Continue reading

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WordPress has formed an AI team

WordPress announced on Tuesday that it has formed an AI team to steward the development of AI products among its developer community. The team includes James LePage (leader of AI at Automattic, WordPress’ parent company), Felix Arntz and Pascal Birchler … Continue reading

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