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Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence
At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal offer stage for various reasons,…
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‘It’s a hard problem you can never solve unless you know the future’: Pure Storage founder talks all-flash, the death of disks, and the future of data storage
Storage is a “hard problem you can never solve unless you know the future,” says John ‘Coz’ Colgrove, but it hasn’t stopped him trying over the last 16 years. Speaking to ITPro, the Pure Storage founder has been a vocal champion of all-flash storage for nearly two decades now, having become frustrated with the sluggish performance and diminishing returns on…
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Michael Dell talks up the power of human and AI collaboration – but not everyone’s singing the same tune
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell Technologies, has called on businesses to accelerate the power of human potential during his opening day keynote at Dell Technologies World 2025. Taking to the stage of the Venetian Conference and Expo Center in Las Vegas, Dell repeated again and again the importance of human involvement in the “AI age”, while also talking…
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Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok
Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s global operations, reports NPR. The deal, which the White House is reportedly negotiating, would see ByteDance keeping a minority stake in TikTok while “the app’s algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle.” Oracle’s server network already provides the bulk of…
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Zuckerberg trash talks Apple in interview with Joe Rogan
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks Apple “[hasn’t] really invented anything great in a while” and that it has been coasting off of its past success. “Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they’re just kind of sitting on it 20 years later,” he said this week. Zuckerberg made the statements during a nearly three-hour long podcast with Joe Rogan where,…
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UK convenes international talks on cyber security
The UK has kicked off a three-day discussion with ‘like-minded’ nations on how to tackle the growing threat of cyber-attacks. Taking place at Wilton Park in West Sussex, the talks involve the EU member states, Canada, Japan, and international organizations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). They will discuss, in…
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Will There Be Joker 3? Director Todd Phillips Talks About The Possibility
The upcoming Joaquin Phoenix starrer Joker 2 is set to hit theaters soon and fans have been looking forward to the second dance for quite some time. For those oblivious, Joker: Folie à Deux is going to be a partial musical featuring some well-known songs. While we await the second movie, fans aren’t wasting any time talking about a potential…
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