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Anthropic appoints Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings to AI startup’s board of directors
Reed Hastings speaks at the 2021 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. October 18, 2021. David Swanson | Reuters Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining its board of directors. Hastings, who co-founded Netflix in 1997 and served as CEO (and eventually co-CEO) of the streaming giant until […]
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Circle IPO has peculiar Facebook-like characteristic
Jeremy Allaire, co-founder and CEO of Circle, speaks at the 2025 TIME100 Summit in New York on April 23, 2025. Jemal Countess | TIME | Getty Images Stablecoin issuer Circle stands to be one of the first significant cryptocurrency companies to go public in the U.S. That’s not the only unusual aspect of its IPO. […]
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Anthropic adds Claude 4 security measures to limit risk of users developing weapons
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday said it activated a tighter artificial intelligence control for Claude Opus 4, its latest AI model. The new AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) controls are to “limit the risk of Claude being misused specifically for the development or acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear […]
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Asia-Pacific markets fall, tracking declines on Wall Street
Japan finance minister calls U.S. tariffs ‘regrettable’ as trade talks stall Japan’s Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on the sidelines of the Group of Seven meeting in Banff, Canada, that the U.S. tariffs are “regrettable,” Reuters reported Thursday. In a bilateral meeting between Kato and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, both sides agreed that the […]
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Sergey Brin points to where Google Glasses failed — and what Android XR gets right
Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin sat for an interview at Google I/O. Jennifer Elias Google on Tuesday announced that it’s getting back into the smart glasses game, and co-founder Sergey Brin said that this time will be different. “I’ve learned a lot,” Brin said Tuesday at a fireside chat during the […]
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly rise after Wall Street rally pauses
Pedestrians walking across a crowded traffic at Shibuya crossing square in Tokyo, Japan. Jaczhou | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday after Wall Street halted its six-day win streak. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.23% after the country reported that exports slowed for a second straight month as the country reels […]
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Xreal debuts first glasses to run Google’s Android XR operating system to take on Meta and Apple
Xreal said its Project Aura glasses will run Google Android XR. Xreal Xreal on Tuesday announced a set of so-called “extended reality” glasses that run Google’s Android XR software, as the companies look to take on Meta and Apple in a new arena. The launch marks an early step from Alphabet‘s Google to become a […]
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Grok’s ‘white genocide’ auto responses show AI chatbots can be tampered with ‘at will’
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images In the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem. Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, reminding users that there’s a limit to how much we can rely […]
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Stock futures rise as S&P 500 tries to extend rally to five days: Live updates
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on May 12, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures rose Friday after the S&P 500 posted a four-day rally on the back of U.S. and China’s temporary tariff cuts and encouraging inflation reports. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added […]
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Cerebras CEO says chipmaker’s ‘aspiration’ is to hold IPO in 2025
Toronto , Canada – 20 June 2024; Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said his hope is to take his company public in 2025 now that the chipmaker has […]
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