Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,” multiple Emmy nominations as a…
Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early bets on Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen, and Olipop, among others, is taking a stake in the soccer club D.C. United and its stadium, Audi Field. It’s the latest — and smallest — firm to try something…
Founder, CEO, and tireless Nvidia hype man Jensen Huang told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology conference on Thursday why his company’s AI domination — and revenues — will continue its record-breaking growth streak through the end of next year. He can see the future. There’s been endless hand-wringing over whether Nvidia’s party…
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleged persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified. “Over the last several months, unauthorized labs have developed increasingly sophisticated methods to circumvent our defenses and harvest the capabilities of US frontier models,” the report reads….
Meta is beginning to win over Wall Street following Tuesday’s launch of its new AI app, Muse. The tech giant’s push into agentic AI is also a hot topic on X among industry players. Now, early numbers offer better insight into how popular Muse actually is among its target market of U.S. consumers. According to…
Proxima Fusion is betting on a critical ingredient for its fusion reactors: superconducting tape. Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans build a €140 million factory ($162.6M) to produce fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which will provide the startup with key component to its reactor design. The move comes months after Proxima raised €411 million in…
Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about—its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database—but it also offers some levity: AI agents hate CAPTCHA. In April, Anthropic was testing the model’s hacking abilities by tasking it to break into…
Instagram is rolling out a small but useful new feature that gives users a little more control over what appears on their profiles. Starting today, you can add posts you’re tagged in directly to your main profile grid. While it’s not exactly a groundbreaking update, it’s one of those changes that a lot of people…
Elon Musk’s tunneling play, The Boring Company, has raised a $3 billion Series D funding round that pushes its valuation to $23 billion. The round was led by the United Arab Emirates. The Boring Company said Thursday that it now plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country. Andreessen…
Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar. This time, the Italian company is buying Miro for $1.36 billion in cash (equity value of $1.79 billion), a mighty dip in valuation for the once-hot workplace collaboration startup that was awarded a price tag of $17.5 billion in…
