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Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is

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OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering

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Snapchat abandons plans for a simplified version of its app

As part of its Q1 2025 earnings release, Snap said it’s scrapping plans for a simplified version of its app.

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Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company announced the

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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI

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Waymo and Toyota are dating — if they get serious, a new autonomous vehicle could be created

Waymo and Toyota have agreed to explore a possible deal that could one day lead to a new vehicle designed

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Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokers

Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of a robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company

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Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely

AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can

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Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data

Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company says was

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Phoenix Group Amps Up Their Bitcoin Mining Power To A Global Capacity Of Over 500 Megawatts

On April 29, 2025, Phoenix Group announced, in a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, that it has added fifty-two