Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

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Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

Riley Walz, a software engineer famous for his online stunts, is joining OpenAI to research and develop new ways for humans to interact...

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Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million...

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Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14...

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A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI

If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken...

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How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic

Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if...

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Thinking Machines Cofounder’s Office Relationship Preceded His Termination

Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee...

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AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?

Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI are racing to develop “operating systems” for AI-powered devices—and 2026 is likely the year these...

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Intel Takes Major Step in Plan to Acquire Chip Startup SambaNova

Intel has signed a term sheet to acquire the AI chip startup SambaNova Systems, two sources with direct knowledge of the agreement tell...

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Here’s What You Should Know About Launching an AI Startup

Julie Bornstein thought it would be a cinch to implement her idea for an AI startup. Her résumé in digital commerce is impeccable:...

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Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup

After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their...

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This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot.I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from...

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Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

Sunshine, the consumer AI startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in 2018, has seen brighter days.The small startup is shutting down...

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