AllFake After duping the Los Angeles school system into giving her gobs of money, the founder of an AI ed tech firm allegedly spent a lot of it on herself.…
Emboldened by Donald Trump's election win, Republicans are seeking big changes to a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program. Their plan could delay distribution of government funding and remove or relax…
As the global conversation around assisted and automated vehicles (AVs) evolves, the MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium continues to lead cutting-edge research aimed at understanding how drivers interact with…
The iPhone 16 series was banned in Indonesia last month due to Apple's unmet investment commitments to the country. Cupertino responded with a pledge to invest $10 million, followed by…
Seattle City Hall. (Photo by Seattle City Council, via Flickr, Creative Commons) The Seattle City Council Thursday approved more than $8 billion for its latest budget, while rejecting a proposal to create a…
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Reid Hoffman, co-founder at LinkedIn and Inflection AI, shared his expectations for the incoming Trump administration in an opinion piece for the Financial Times. And while he appears hopeful that…
On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total stake to $8 billion while maintaining its minority investor position.…
A Sniper Elite battle-royale spin-off announced just three months ago has reportedly been canceled after losing funding from Chinese gaming giant Tencent.The news comes via Insider Gaming, which didn't give…
Acclaimed director Mike Flanagan has shared an exciting and also eye-opening update on how far along his Stephen King adaptation of the Carrie TV show has come. Flanagan is probably…
"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer is bullish on Bitcoin—and that's a bad thing, according to concerned investors citing the "inverse Cramer" effect. Source
MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25…
Hackers breached an online course founded by far-right influencer, , Andrew Tate, . The hackers captured data on more than 800,000 users and revealed the email addresses of around 325,000…
Revolut, the London-based fintech unicorn, shared a few items on the company’s 2025 roadmap at a corporate event in London on Friday. One of its main focuses for next year…
GlobalFoundries signed a deal to get $1.5 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act even after being fined for violating U.S. export laws by supplying advanced chips to Chinese entities.…
In recent years, co-op has been left behind by the gaming industry. There was a time when split-screen gaming was an essential part of any game's design, but lately, it…
The AI race is taking a detour as developers consider a new path to super-intelligent systems: test-time compute. Not sure what that means? Don’t worry, the Equity pod team breaks…
France’s gaming regulator investigated the crypto prediction market platform after a French trader attracted scrutiny for waging millions on a Trump victory. Source
Amazon has expanded its partnership with Anthropic with a $4 billion investment. The e-commerce and cloud company is now Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner, with a total investment of…
DirecTV is pulling out of an agreement to buy its satellite rival Dish after bondholders objected to terms of the deal. DirecTV issued an announcement last night saying "it has…