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Private Equity Firms Must Embrace These Cutting-Edge Innovations to Stay Competitive
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Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025
After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10 weeks to decide what they want […]
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Belgium investigating alleged cyberattack on intelligence agency by China-linked hackers
The hackers reportedly exploited a flaw in US cybersecurity firm Barracuda’s software to access VSSE’s email server
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The Download: underage celebrity chatbots, and OpenAI’s latest model
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots…
An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in a garage
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week I’ve been working on a story about a brain of glass. About five years ago, archaeologists found shiny black glass fragments inside the skull of a…
OpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UK
OpenAI is finally making its video generation model, Sora, available to users in the European Union, the U.K., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The company said on Friday that ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers in these regions will be able to create videos using the model. The AI startup first unveiled Sora in February 2024, […]
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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE
Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of a broader effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy […]
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Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns ‘chumps’ not to buy into SPVs
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha apparently sees another greed cycle brewing in venture capital where the least sophisticated investors could get hurt.
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The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
Confused about which AI model to use? Check out this comprehensive list of the most advanced models out there.
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SEC says meme coins are not securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance on Thursday saying it does not view most meme coins, which are crypto tokens that originated from memes, as securities under United States federal law. As a result, the SEC says it does not believe people who purchase or hold meme coins are protected by federal securities law, […]
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