Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round
The quickly growing prediction betting market raised fresh capital from Sequoia and CapitalG, according to someone familiar with the deal.
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the…
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Salesforce says some of its customers’ data was accessed after Gainsight breach
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ChatGPT launches group chats globally
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Why these founders ditched social ads for Taylor Swift concerts and prison tablets
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Mixup is a new, Mad Libs-style app for creating AI images from photos, text and doodles
The new app lets anyone use Google’s Nano Banana in a fun new way, with fill-in-the-blank AI “recipes.”
Perplexity brings its AI browser Comet to Android
Perplexity is launching its AI browser Comet on Android with iOS version in works
Android’s Quick Share now works with iPhone’s AirDrop, starting with the Pixel 10 lineup
The company says the new feature will allow users to quickly share their photos, videos, and files with without worrying about the kind of phone the other person uses.
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