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2025-09-10T03:34:54Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Robinhood is launching a social media platform for users to share and track trades. The platform will feature trending and publicly reported trades from hedge funds and politicians. Robinhood and Reddit were key players in the 2021 meme stock mania. Robinhood is encroaching on Reddit’s territory.At the company’s annual…
The $1-a-year deals that OpenAI and Anthropic are dangling in front of the Trump administration may seem alluring, but the cost of rolling them out could be very high, says Sid Ghatak, a former advisor to the Biden administration on AI.Ghatak told Business Insider in an interview last month that the government needs to consider the hidden costs of implementing AI.”What does $1 really mean? Does that mean access to the open model and that compute will be charged incrementally?” he said, adding that the government might have to pay extra to train an AI model to meet their needs.”So,…
Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their foundational AI models, is in discussions with investors for a Series C round, according to a marketing document viewed by TechCrunch and two sources familiar with the deal talks. Felicis, a returning investor, is considering doubling down on the company for the Series C, according to two sources. Felicis declined to comment. The company is currently targeting a valuation of $10 billion or more, one person said. That’s up from an $8 billion target valuation that the company discussed a couple…
Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their foundational AI models, is in discussions with investors for a Series C round, according to two sources familiar with the deal talks and a marketing document viewed by TechCrunch. The company is currently targeting a valuation of $10 billion or more, one person said. That’s up from an $8 billion target valuation that the company discussed a couple of months ago, one person said. However, terms of the final deal could still change. Mercor’s previous round was announced in February —…
2025-09-09T23:25:48Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended a dinner at the White House earlier this month. He said Meta would spend at least $600 billion on US data centers and infrastructure through 2028. Meta CFO Susan Li was quizzed about this huge commitment at a conference on Tuesday. Imagine your boss…
(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Tuesday that 12 people worldwide have received its chips.This marks an increase from a prior announcement in June, when its partner Barrow Neurological Institute said that seven individuals with severe paralysis had received Neuralink’s implants and were using them to control digital and physical tools through thought.Collectively, the patients have had their devices for 2,000 days and accumulated over 15,000 hours of use, Neuralink said on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday.In July, Neuralink said it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test its chips,…
It’s been a while since an Apple event showed off a new product that made me immediately think I need that. Since — I dunno, the iPhone X? — the upgrades have mostly been incremental.A little faster, a little better camera. Still, you’d be fine keeping your old phone.But seeing the iPhone Air at Tuesday’s Apple event, I went full cartoon wolf eyes bulging out a-WOO-gah. I need that.The premise seems simple on paper: iPhone, but thin. And yet, I hadn’t fully thought through how much I would actually want the $999 device.I’ve been devoted to the Max size of…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit four homers in one game last month that put the Philadelphia Phillies slugger on the precipice of 50 homers this season.Then he waited. And waited some more.Schwarber’s home run drought — as much as the designated hitter could really have one this year — spanned 10 games and 49 plate appearances as he chased the milestone.He gave everyone in Philly on Tuesday night a 437-foot reminder of what a Schwarbomb looks like and what it sounds like with roaring chants of “MVP! MVP!” that tailed him around the bases.Schwarber reached 50 homers in a…
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Flowers and memorial messages were tied to the gate of Kiesel Park in Auburn, Alabama, to remember retired professor veterinary professor Julie Gard Schnuelle, who was attacked and killed there over the weekend. The murder of the retired professor at a city park has rattled the college town of 83,757 people. The sprawling green space, in a rural-feeling area of the city about four miles (6 kilometers) from the university campus, is popular with dog walkers and exercisers because of its fields and two miles of walking trails. Authorities said Gard Schnuelle, 59, died after being…
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for patients with a type of bladder cancer, the drugmaker said on Tuesday, offering a potential alternative to surgically remove the organ.The drug release system, branded as Inlexzo, was approved for patients with a type of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who did not respond to treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy, the current standard-of-care, and are ineligible for, or refuse to undergo bladder removal surgery.About 75% of bladder cancer cases are non-muscle-invasive at the time of diagnosis, according to government data.The approval was based…