April 21, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation

Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of “at least” $20 billion, according to Reuters. It’s not clear how much Safe Superintelligence — which has yet to generate any revenue — is looking to secure, but it could be substantial.

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Live Oak Bank Review: Services, Rates, and More

Live Oak Bank is a digital-first bank that provides tailored financial services for small businesses and entrepreneurs across various industries. Offering a range of products from high-yield business savings accounts to specialized small business loans, Live Oak Bank aims to help business owners access competitive rates, simplified banking, and a highly responsive customer service experience.

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Apple’s new iPhone SE is coming very soon, report claims

Apple‘s new iPhone SE is about to see the light of day real soon. This is according to a new report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which claims that Apple is planning to launch the new iPhone SE “in the coming days.” SEE ALSO: First porn app ‘approved’ for the iPhone in Europe. Apple isn’t happy.

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The US Government Is Not a Startup

And savings. They want savings. Specifically they want to subject the federal government to zero-based budgeting, a popular financial planning method in Silicon Valley in which every expenditure needs to be justified from scratch. One way to do that is to offer legally dubious buyouts to almost all federal employees, who collectively make up a

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PowerSchool data breach affected 16,000 students in the UK

U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has confirmed that 16,000 students in the United Kingdom had personal and sensitive data stolen during a December 2024 data breach.  This week, PowerSchool began notifying individuals outside of the U.S. and Canada who were affected by the breach. The incident, first confirmed by PowerSchool in January, saw hackers access the

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7 Best Banks for Real Estate Investors Evaluated for 2025

The best banks for real estate investors provide banking accounts designed to streamline rental property operations. These banks offer business software integrations and low banking fees to help maximize profits from property investments. Additionally, they provide access to commercial real estate (CRE) lending solutions and include valuable features such as rent collection and cash flow

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‘Severance’ Season 2, episode 4: What is the Glasgow Block?

“Woe’s Hollow,” the fourth episode of Severance Season 2, is one of the show’s most jam-packed entries yet. Over the course of an hour, Severance revealed that Helena Eagan (Britt Lower) had been posing as her Innie for the whole season. It also retired Irving’s (John Turturro) Innie and introduced some bizarre new Kier Eagan

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E3’s Organizers Are Back With a New Event. This Time, Doctors Are Invited Too

The organizers of the extravagant E3 games conference pronounced the event dead in 2023. Attendance for the bombastic, news-packed trade show was on the decline in 2019, and after the Covid-19 lockdown, the organizers at the Entertainment Software Association held one more virtual-only show in 2021 before yanking the plug. Now, the ESA is ready

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Sprinklr cuts 500 employees, citing underwhelming business performance

Sprinklr, a U.S. firm providing a customer experience management platform to global brands, has laid off about 15% of its workforce — around 500 employees — due to business performance not meeting expectations, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The new layoffs come less than a year after the company cut about 3% of its workforce in

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North One Business Banking Review: Key Features & Costs 

North One North One is a financial technology company and not a bank. Banking services are provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A; Member FDIC.  is a financial technology (fintech) company that offers small business owners savings from typical account fees by charging no monthly fees and having no minimum balance requirements. It also has various

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