Month: February 2025

SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout

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SpaceX said Monday that last month’s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an eighth test flight that could happen as early as Friday. The spaceflight company is still waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) … Read more

SoundCloud partners with Ticketmaster to let artists list events

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Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with Ticketmaster and Universe, owned by Live Nation, to let artists list events on their profile in a customized way. The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticketmaster through a new promotion program but didn’t give any more details. … Read more

Khosla Ventures seeks $3.5B in fresh capital

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Khosla Ventures, a firm known for early investments in OpenAI, is raising $3.5 billion across three funds, the Wall Street Journal reported. That target is 17% larger than the firm’s previous 2023 fund haul of $3 billion.   About half of the new capital will be allocated to its ninth core venture fund. The remaining money will … Read more

Annapurna’s 2025 lineup of indie games is full of tea and T-poses

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Annapurna Interactive is hosting its first showcase of the year, and it’s an important one. Last year, Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resigned en masse after negotiations to spin off the respected indie game publisher into its own independent entity broke down. Since then, those employees have formed their own company and even have a new crop … Read more

Google Drive gets searchable video transcripts

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Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users, starting today and finishing by March 26th. The transcripts look a lot like those you’d see on YouTube. If one is available, it’ll appear in a sidebar next to the video as … Read more

Anthropic’s new ‘hybrid reasoning’ AI model is its smartest yet

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Anthropic is releasing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first “hybrid reasoning model” that can solve more complex problems and outperforms previous models in areas like math and coding.  In addition to a new model, Anthropic is also releasing a “limited research preview” of its “agentic” coding tool called Claude Code. While Anthropic already powers AI coding … Read more

Google Drive users can now access and search transcripts for videos

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After launching automatically generated captions for videos last year, Google Drive is now launching searchable video transcripts. Google announced that starting Monday, Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos. The new feature gets rid of the need to upload a video’s audio to a transcription service like Otter. Transcripts will appear … Read more

Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want

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Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to. Anthropic calls Claude 3.7 Sonnet the industry’s first “hybrid AI reasoning model,” because it’s a single model that can give both real-time answers and more considered, “thought-out” … Read more

Bybit Only Has Itself to Blame

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TL;DR I am shocked, appalled, and frustrated by how easily concepts can be distorted in the 21st century. The Bybit hack is 99% the result of the CEX team’s negligence and only 1% the skill of the hackers. Yet, the media has flipped the narrative: they emphasize that the attack was allegedly carried out by … Read more