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Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding

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Google wants its AI to code better. It may have found a shortcut, and it runs through a startup of about 35 people. The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agents to write software, Business Insider reported. The deal would be worth more than $1.5 billion, four people […]

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A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

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Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […]

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Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

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Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the result of relocating or contracting work out of the state. […]

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Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

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Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le, who co-founded Google Brain, and Oriol Vinyals, whose X bio […]

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The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

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China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger was a Reuters report that the FCC intends to halt imports of new models of optical […]

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TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

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In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test whether the safer feed was less addictive. That is according […]

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Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.

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Uber wants to own the robotaxi era without building the cars. “Building a great autonomous driver is one part of building a successful autonomous business,” chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told analysts on Wednesday. He then listed the rest: dispatch, fleet operations, charging, insurance and regulators. It is a bet the company is spending billions to […]

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Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%

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SpaceX has reported its first earnings as a public company, and the biggest number was not the one about rockets. The company that launches most of the world’s payloads made more money selling AI compute and satellite internet than it did from space. Revenue nearly doubled to $7.8bn. The stock still fell. For a firm […]

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The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private

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The largest leveraged buyout in history has closed. Electronic Arts is now private. A group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund bought it for $55bn, alongside Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners. The maker of The Sims, Battlefield and EA Sports FC comes with roughly $20bn of new debt attached. The paperwork is […]

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Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left

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The Salt Typhoon hack that breached America’s biggest phone carriers had a back door hiding in plain sight. A bipartisan House report has a blunt finding. Three Chinese state-owned carriers, pushed out of the US years ago, never fully left. Their leftover footholds, it says, may have helped keep the hackers’ infrastructure alive. US regulators […]

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