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Elon Musk's childhood fascination with sci-fi motivates his desire to lead the AI race, biographer Walter Isaacson says
- Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk's AI motives likely stem from early ambitions inspired by sci-fi themes.
- Isaacson said Musk told him he wanted to start an AI company because he didn't trust Sam Altman.
Ana Altchek
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What it's like to launch a startup with friends, according to 3 Gen Z cofounders who created a childcare startup together
More Gen Zs are launching startups with friends. Here's how one cofounder trio are navigating the j…
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How Sri Pangulur went from building his own syndicate to co-leading Mayfield's Series B investing practice
Pangulur leveraged his sales and syndicate experience to ascend in venture capital, joining Mayfiel…
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I tried Google's viral new tool that creates an AI podcast about topics you feed it. It's worth the hype.
Google's NotebookLM recently launched Audio Overviews. The AI podcasts sound surprisingly realistic…
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Tim Tully taught himself to code at age 6 and still codes daily. Here's how computer science took him from startups to AI investing at Menlo Ventures.
Tim Tully taught himself to code at age six and started his career as a software engineer before jo…
Samantha Stokes
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The world's largest chipmaker TSMC is about to be tested as it uses more and more power
Taiwan's electricity supply struggles could impact TSMC, as the semiconductor giant aims for net ze…
Helen Li
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Google takes steps to protect Android devices from theft, rolls out new features
Google is rolling out new security features for Android phones in the US to protect against theft. …
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Musk's X paid $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, Brazil's Supreme Court said
Paying the fine is the last hurdle for X's reinstatement in Brazil, which was its sixth-largest mar…
Lian Kit Wee
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Mark Zuckerberg just turned Porsche's minivan concept into a reality. Sort of.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been undergoing a style evolution, just showed off a Porsche Caye…
Lloyd Lee
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Blue Origin CEO says he wants to bring Amazon's customer-centric culture to Bezos' space rocket company
Blue Origin is reinventing itself under a new CEO, who spent 15 years at Amazon. A culture change a…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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The US Navy has launched a high-tech scavenger hunt on Reddit to recruit the 'next generation of submariners'
The Navy is looking for recruits to add to the less than 1% of sailors who serve on submarines, and…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Steve Jobs once said what he really thinks about consultants — to a group of consultants
Steve Jobs believed consulting lacks critical elements of a meaningful job, like the ability to own…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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VC power player Ben Horowitz says he'll donate to Kamala Harris. Read the memo.
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, showed support for the Trump campaign. An email to …
Melia Russell,Lloyd Lee
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Meta brags that its latest AI video tool outperforms rivals like OpenAI
Meta released Movie Gen on Friday. It generates AI videos and sound using text prompts. It's Meta's…
Katie Balevic
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Mark Zuckerberg is leaning into his fashion era and considering selling Classics-inspired T-shirts
Mark Zuckerberg is leaning further into his fashion era and said he's considering selling T-shirts …
Jordan Hart
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Billionaire Palmer Luckey's icy relationship with Mark Zuckerberg is thawing 8 years after his Facebook firing
Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg appear to be mending their frayed relationship, with the Oculus f…
Jaures Yip
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Microsoft tells customers it lost log data for key security products
Microsoft told customers that a software bug caused inconsistent collection of log data for key clo…
Ashley Stewart
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A girl murdered in 2006 was just revived as an AI chatbot — and her family had no idea
Jennifer Ann Crecente was killed by her ex-boyfriend 18 years ago. Her father just discovered that …
Matthew Loh
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Harvard students made Meta Ray-Bans do facial recognition. Meta execs once thought this was a good idea.
Before Meta Ray-Bans first launched, Meta executives weighed adding facial recognition software.
Katie Notopoulos
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Donald Trump's social media company has new worries and investors don't care
If this was a typical company, the departure of its COO and allegations of a whistleblower complain…
Peter Kafka
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Tech tycoon Mike Lynch died from drowning after his superyacht sank, inquest hears
Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and five others died after the Bayesian superyacht was…
Nathan Rennolds
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I'm a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. Tech jobs are drying up and graduates are no longer guaranteed a role.
James O'Brien is a UC Berkeley computer science professor. He says tech graduates are struggling to…
Beatrice Nolan
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HP EliteBook Ultra G1q review – powerful hardware in a compact form factor
HP recently launched the EliteBook Ultra G1q, the company’s latest business-oriented laptop in Indi…