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While AI coding startups like Cursor raise brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit's path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift.

Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are underway.

The Trump administration canceled over 300 awards related to clean energy on October 1. The states most affected by the cuts voted for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company's product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.

Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.

The idea, explains Meta, is to give users dedicated spaces within the app where they can delve deeper into conversations on topics that matter to them.

Slow or stopped permitting and a frozen visa process are existential threats for some startups.

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A former OpenAI researcher looked into how ChatGPT can mislead delusional users about their reality and its own capabilities.

AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new ‘background assistant’ to handle multiple tasks via Comet.  

Amazon's new "Add to today's delivery" button makes it easier for Prime members to buy more and tack on items to existing orders.

Bloomberg reports that the tech giant is developing at least two types of smart glasses.

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Spacecoin envisions a decentralized rival to SpaceX's Starlink.

Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric, an AI Design tool. Its team is going to lead a new agents experience group at Perplexity

Of the 25 offshore crypto exchanges targeted by India, 14 hold more than $9 billion in assets.

The tax credit's expiration on September 30 motivated buyers to take advantage of the $7,500 incentive, giving Tesla a shot to return to sales growth in 2025.

Founder Bryan Onel says too many companies are doing the bare minimum to meet their security compliance obligations, and raised $33 million to help his customers get both compliant and secure.

Leverage Edu places over 10,000 students annually into universities across 11 countries.

The idea that Meta would secretly turn on the microphones on users' phones to record their conversations is an age-old conspiracy theory -- and one that the company has disputed before.