VC Jenny Fielding sparked debate on X by questioning the practice of pre-seed founders hiring executive assistants (EAs). She argued that founders may have outdated views on spending during a time of tighter funding.

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In 2024, Elon Musk's jets made 355 flights, with 31 going to or from Mar-a-Lago, where President-elect Donald Trump resides. Musk's planes also visited swing states and Washington D.C. during Trump's campaign, indicating Musk's political interests.

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ChatGPT Search can be tricked into generating misleading summaries by inserting hidden text into websites, allowing it to ignore negative reviews and produce entirely positive summaries.

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) requiring OpenAI to generate at least $100 billion in profits. OpenAI is not expected to reach this milestone until 2029.

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A Chinese lab has developed DeepSeek V3, a powerful 'open' AI model that can handle text-based tasks, outperforming other models in coding competitions.

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23andMe suffered a data breach exposing genetic and ancestry data of nearly 7 million customers. Hackers exploited weak security by brute-forcing access to thousands of accounts. 23andMe later implemented multi-factor authentication.

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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has secured $6 billion in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $12 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, and other prominent investors, with Kingdom Holdings contributing approximately $400 million. This investment values xAI at $45 billion, nearly double its previous valuation.

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AMD is set to hold a press conference at CES 2025, where it is expected to unveil its next-gen GPU, possibly as part of the RX 8000 or RX 9000 series, to compete with Nvidia's RTX 5000 announcement.

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The holiday season is a good time to help loved ones improve their cybersecurity by sharing good security advice and making meaningful changes to protect them from common online threats.

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Kruze Consulting analyzed data from 450 seed-stage startups and found that technical engineering/product positions tend to be paid more than CEOs, while COO/operations roles are paid even higher on average.

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