Washington veterans speak out after being fired in federal cuts  KIRO Seattle

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Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award Recipients For 2025 Unveiled  Deadline

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered words of wisdom to young women across the nation from the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday evening, urging them to “stay strong, speak the truth," and believe in themselves.

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Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown to Speak at WSU  Pullman Radio

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For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Hundreds of federal workers apply for unemployment in Washington state amid Trump's purge  KUOW News and Information

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Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again.  The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s Commissioners, is yet another signal that the Trump administration plans to be more friendly to crypto than the SEC was […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the market got it wrong when it comes to DeepSeek’s technological advancements and its potential to negatively impact the chipmaker’s business. Instead, Huang called DeepSeek’s R1 open source reasoning model “incredibly exciting” while speaking with Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks, in a pre-recorded interview that was released […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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This week, Sakana AI, a Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA Engineer, that could effectively speed up the training of certain AI models by a factor of up to 100x. The only problem […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Crypto exchange Bitby disclosed a breach that that amounts to a loss of $1.4 billion, the largest crypto theft of all time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Crypto exchange Bitby disclosed a breach that that amounts to a loss of $1.4 billion, the largest crypto theft of all time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Joe Carnahan’s ‘Shadow Force’ With Kerry Washington & Omar Sy To Help Kick Off Summer This Year – Box Office  Deadline

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Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Tiny Michigan biotech startup CircNova has raised a $3.3 million seed round for its technology that uses AI to target so-called “circular RNA.” The development holds promise as a new method to quickly develop therapies for conditions that currently have no drug treatments. The new funding is also a victory lap for co-founder and CEO […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Global investing in fintech startups is starting to see an uptick. Just this week, KPMG issued its Pulse of Fintech report for the second half of 2024. In the fourth quarter of 2024, investment climbed to $25.9 billion from $18 billion in the third quarter, according to KPMG. Granted, this is not the enthusiasm of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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