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Anthropic has just concluded a $30 billion Series G fundraising round, the company announced on Thursday. The company’s new value is $380 billion — a huge jump from its previous Series F valuation of

Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distrib

Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads — which feature darkly comedic scenarios of people seeking advice from chatbots, only to be steered to “cougar” dating sites and height-boosting insoles — have been paying o

Three of the most popular artificial intelligence chatbots are inconsistent in safely answering prompts about suicide, according to a recent study from the RAND Corporation. Researchers examined ChatG

IVF is akin to being a bride. Much like brides become obsessed with the world of weddings, I've become obsessed with the world of infertility. It's like a secret club, with acronyms -- 2ww, BFP, Beta,

I almost never travel with VR headsets, no matter how many times I've been told flying with a Vision Pro to watch movies is great, or how headsets can help you make a virtual computer desktop on the r

Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12. At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk

Grok is coming for the coding-focused customers of its bigger rivals. Elon Musk's xAI dropped a new AI model this week, specifically for developers, calling it a "speedy and economical reasoning model

As the top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI chase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up. The startup told investors in a memo that it surpassed its $20

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasse

The Google Nest Doorbell has been my video doorbell of choice, based on its snappy performance, sharp AI detection and free video storage. But its last upgrade, with only minor changes, was back in 20

AI has become a staple of just about every new phone, but that doesn't mean it's a centerpiece of most people's lives. A CNET survey finds that just 11% of US smartphone owners choose to upgrade their

After a particularly poor performance on its fourth-quarter earnings, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready attempted to favorably compare the digital pinboarding site to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Trying to

While the artificial intelligence industry touts that AI will replace entry-level jobs, not every company is scaling back hiring these positions. In IBM’s case, it’s going all in. Hardware giant IBM p

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own sha