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Databricks raises $4B at $134B valuation as its AI business heats up

The data intelligence company has just raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation — up 34% from the $100 billion valuation that it achieved just three months ago.

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar joined Decoder this week to discuss the company’s “code red” response to AI, including its own new AI Assist chatbot. You might be able to guess where this is going.

Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks

We introduce FrontierScience, a new benchmark that evaluates AI capabilities for expert-level scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry, and biology.

A new Micro RGB TV is coming from LG

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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.

Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business

It looks like battery electric vehicles are out of fashion at the Blue Oval.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

Lidar-maker Luminar files for bankruptcy

The filing marks the end of a tumultuous year full of layoffs, executive departures, and piling debts.

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