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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors beli...

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to Spa...

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though h...

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White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the ...

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhe...

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CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pr...

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 millio...

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Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate...

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fu...

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Trump braces for midterms, crucial union vote as Labor Day shows 75,000 lost manufacturing jobs

Trump braces for midterms, crucial union vote as Labor ...

Even as tariffs favor domestic producers, automation is limiting hiring gains—te...

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Wisconsin cheese, Maine seafood, Kentucky appliances: Trump’s Canada tariffs punch swing states just before the midterms

Wisconsin cheese, Maine seafood, Kentucky appliances: T...

Section 338 of Smoot-Hawley has sat unused for 96 years; Canada's Mark Carney sa...

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OpenAI’s AI agents secretly used a German wiki website as a message board. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.

OpenAI’s AI agents secretly used a German wiki website ...

OpenAI acknowledged its AI agents used a German wiki to coordinate, renewing que...

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A $500,000 career, gone at 25: esports’ injury crisis is forcing teams to build sports-medicine staffs

A $500,000 career, gone at 25: esports’ injury crisis i...

A study found 37% of competitive gamers report anxiety and depression, and repet...

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Canada’s pivot to Asia is finally real. The challenge is that neither side knows much about the other

Canada’s pivot to Asia is finally real. The challenge i...

For four decades, Canadian commercial life has been organized around the belief ...

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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this wee...

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Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allow...

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but f...

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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-...

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to ...

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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal pro...

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent inves...

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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for...

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from s...

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Crypto exchange Gate enters prediction market space with white-label builder for businesses 

Crypto exchange Gate enters prediction market space wit...

After partnering with Polymarket, Gate is building its own tools for businesses ...

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GAO finds Secret Service left drone threats unaddressed before Trump assassination attempt

GAO finds Secret Service left drone threats unaddressed...

The Government Accountability Office found delays in how the Secret Service upda...

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He failed the military pilot eye test—so he built a $1 million-a-day traffic company and bought flying lessons. Now he’s Top Gun’s stunt pilot 

He failed the military pilot eye test—so he built a $1 ...

Top Gun's stunt pilot built a traffic company as a teen. Now he's making million...