'Inference whales' are eating into AI coding startups' business model

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Humpback Whale Breaching. This massive animal shows surprising speed and grace as it breaches near the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
A Humpback whale breaching

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Microsoft is trying to poach Meta AI talent and offering multimillion-dollar pay packages, internal documents show

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Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella are all in on AI.

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Tesla is willing to pay up to $33.66 an hour for robotaxi test operators in NYC. Here's what the job entails.

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A Tesla Robotaxi on the streets in Austin. The service launched in limited form on June 22, 2025.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman's feud is really heating up

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman
The rival tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a long-running feud.

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Freight management startup GoodShip raises $25 million to overhaul shipping with AI. Read the pitch deck.

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GoodShip founders David Tsai and Ryan Roskin, standing on the street and wearing zip-up hoodies with the company's logo.
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A Microsoft engineer shares the strategy she used to get promoted 4 times in 5 years

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Ritvika Nagula, a software engineer at Microsoft, said her resume helped her land four job offers out of graduate school.

Ritvika Nagula

Marc Andreessen says this is the key to becoming the next Apple

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Marc Andreessen's take on the next iPhone moment.

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Sam Altman says we're worried about the wrong part of the workforce when it comes to AI

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Sam Altman says in a decade, college graduates could be doing almost unthinkable things like exploring the solar system

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Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple over Grok's App Store ranking and escalating his feud with OpenAI

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Elon Musk looks toward his right in the Oval Office at the White House.
"Unfortunately, what choice do we have? Apple didn't just put their thumb on the scale, they put their whole body!" Elon Musk wrote on X on Monday.

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She runs a team of philosophers and artists at Google. Here's what she recommends for non-technical candidates.

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Mira Lane is the founder of Google's Envisioning Studio, an AI innovation prototyping lab that explores the impact of tech innovation on society.

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