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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 … Continue reading

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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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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe

BluSmart, India’s all-electric cab-hailing startup that was once seen as an emerging rival to Uber, appears to have suspended service in some cities just as the country’s market regulator launched a probe into Gensol Engineering, the publicly listed company that … Continue reading

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OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini

OpenAI announced on Thursday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding. The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning model ever, outperforming the company’s previous models on tests … Continue reading

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OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals

In a bid to inject AI into more of the programming process, OpenAI is launching Codex CLI, a coding “agent” designed to run locally from terminal software. Announced on Wednesday alongside OpenAI’s newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, Codex CLI … Continue reading

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Apple races to surpass rivals in quest to eliminate carbon pollution

Apple reported on Wednesday that is more than halfway to its 2030 goal.

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