OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.  Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company’s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms of the deal. “Evals are a requirement to building high-performing […]

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Google bets on geothermal to power data centers in Taiwan

Swedish company Baseload Capital is developing the project.

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Amazon emails sellers to gauge how Trump’s tariffs are impacting their businesses

Amazon asked third-party sellers how the “current U.S. tariff situation” has affected sourcing and pricing, logistics and plans to ship goods into warehouses.

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Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to “accelerate” the adoption of Anthropic’s AI among AWS accounts by “building programs that […] scale across […]

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Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI

Publishing platform Medium says it’s still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have scaled back their efforts in this space to appease the Trump administration. In a blog post published on Monday, Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine backed the company’s diverse community, saying that businesses shouldn’t have to […]

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UK’s Cyber Crime Down in 2024: Better ‘Cyber Hygiene Among Small Businesses

A UK government survey of 2024 data shows phishing remains the top cyber threat, ransomware cases doubled, and fewer boards include cyber experts despite steady attack rates.

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Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked

The infamous website was taken down and working intermittently, while hackers leaked alleged data like moderators email addresses, and source code.

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Deel’s CEO is now in Dubai, complicating Rippling’s lawsuit

Rippling’s efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch. The UAE is a country with a reputation of being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition. Rippling is trying to serve […]

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Founder’s Fund’s new $4.6B fund indicates an era of big VC spending

Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum — which is a big step up from its last previous $3.4 billion growth fund closed in early 2022 — there’s a couple of other interesting things to note about this raise. For one, it’s more […]

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Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone’s Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network’s cultural relevance. This “potentially crazy idea,” as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monday as a part of the evidence introduced during the first day of the U.S. government’s antitrust trial against Meta. […]

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