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What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.

Two years after the cryptocurrency market crashed, internet cafes for playing crypto-earning video games are opening and farmers have started harvesting virtual crops from the games for income.

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The Department of Homeland Security Is Embracing A.I.

The agency will be the first in the federal government to roll out a comprehensive plan to integrate the technology into a variety of uses, from fighting crime to helping disaster survivors.

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Elon Musk to Open Source Grok Chatbot in Latest AI War Escalation

Mr. Musk’s move to open up the code behind Grok is the latest volley in a war to win the A.I. battle, after a suit against OpenAI on the same topic.

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What Elon Musk Said in Testy Interview on Don Lemon’s New Show

The former CNN frontman released a wide-ranging interview with the billionaire about business, politics, hate speech online and more.

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Tesla’s Troubles Raise Questions About Its Invincibility

As the share price plunges, investors wonder whether the company, led by Elon Musk, can withstand intensifying competition.

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Late-stage VCs may be preventing their startups from going public in 2024

While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are actually part of the problem. A lot of standard VC deal terms give investors the ability to block an IPO or acquisition … Continue reading

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LinkedIn wants a piece of Wordle’s success

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Monday show, in which we take a look back at the weekend and what’s ahead … Continue reading

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What is DarwinAI, Apple’s newly acquired start-up?

Apple quietly acquired Canadian artificial intelligence startup DarwinAI earlier this year, adding dozens of the company’s staffers to its AI division. Bloomberg News reported the under-the-radar purchase on Thursday (Mar. 14) with Apple yet to publicly announce the news. They … Continue reading

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Sony to ‘halt PSVR2 production due to surplus of stock’

Sony Group Corporation has allegedly put a stop to production of its PSVR2 headset, due to a backlog of unsold units. The news came from an article by Bloomberg journalist Takashi Mochizuki who claims that sales of the product have … Continue reading

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Elon Musk’s xAI open-sources base model of Grok

xAI has confirmed the open release of its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) model, detailing the weights and architecture of the system.  Elon Musk’s company detailed the Grok-1 version as a “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.” … Continue reading

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