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A philosopher rejected a $335,000 job offer from Anthropic, saying the growing reliance on AI risks weakening human skills and increasing social isolation.
OnlyFans says it has paid more than $30 billion to creators since 2016, with over 5,000 creators earning at least $1 million on the platform.
The SEC has opened an investigation into AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness after its leveraged positions triggered margin calls and forced asset sales.
An internal survey found that nearly 78% of Nvidia employees are millionaires, while half have accumulated net worth exceeding $25 million.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation exceeding $30 billion as the AI search startup's annualized revenue surpasses $750 million.
Anthropic is reportedly targeting an IPO that would raise at least as much capital as SpaceX's record-breaking public offering.
Alibaba's quarterly profit fell about 75% as aggressive investment in AI infrastructure and cloud computing continued to pressure near-term earnings.
OpenAI plans to go public by 2027 or earlier, according to CFO Sarah Friar, as the company prepares for one of the largest IPOs in technology history.
Visa, Mastercard, and more than 25 companies have formed the Agentic Payments Alliance to develop standards for AI agent payments, identity, security, and fraud prevention.
AI video startup Higgsfield raised $400 million in Series B funding at a $5.4 billion valuation as annualized revenue reached approximately $700 million.
LG Electronics and NVIDIA plan to build a 100,000-hour robot training dataset using real and synthetic data to accelerate development of next-generation humanoid robots.
The Wall Street Journal estimates that major U.S. technology companies have nearly $3 trillion in future AI-related commitments beyond their reported capital expenditures.