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Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers to Perplexity’s $20-per-month Pro plan that can craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more. Perplexity Labs is available on the web, iOS, and Android, and coming soon to Perplexity’s apps for Mac and Windows. “Perplexity Labs can help you…
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Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology
Drew Baglino’s startup is hoping to
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In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military
On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder, Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog post. “I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” Luckey is quoted as…
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YouTube will soon let viewers use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts
YouTube announced on Thursday that it’s bringing Google Lens to YouTube Shorts in the coming weeks. With this integration, viewers will soon be able to use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts. For example, if you’re watching a Short filmed in a location that you’re interested in visiting, you can select…
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DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably-sized models on certain benchmarks. The smaller updated R1, which was built using the Qwen3-8B model Alibaba…
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US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams
The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.
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Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business
If the Senate were to pass it with those repeals in tact, it could have a devastating impact on Tesla’s energy division.
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Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024
Just ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, Apple on Thursday announced new figures related to the U.S. App Store’s financial success. The company says its U.S. App Store ecosystem has generated $406 billion in developer billings and sales in 2024 — a figure that’s nearly tripled in size since 2019, when it then…
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DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s newest AI model, an updated version of the company’s R1 reasoning model, achieves impressive scores on benchmarks for coding, math, and general knowledge, nearly surpassing OpenAI’s flagship o3. But the upgraded R1, also known as “R1-0528,” might also be less willing to answer contentious questions, in particular questions about topics the…
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A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding
Reflecting on 10 years since its launch, the honeypot maker explains why the company did not take on any VC funding.