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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it's raised: Perplexity tells TechCrunch the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome's underlying engine, Chromium, open source and to invest $3 billion into it. Read More

Hackers breach and expose a major North Korean spying operation: Two hackers broke into the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents, offering a rare glimpse inside the secretive nation's spying operations. Read More

Anthropic's Claude AI model can now handle longer prompts: Anthropic's popular coding model just became a little more enticing for developers with a million-token context window. Read More

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Pronto's 10-minute house-help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days: Pronto has raised $11 million in an all-equity Series A round co-led by General Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital at a post-money valuation of $45 million. Read More

In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers: And it's finding customers and investors, including $2.54 million in seed funding. Read More

TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global: Ultraviolette aims to expand its electric motorcycles to 40 European countries, as well as Latin America and Southeast Asia. Read More

Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack: Report: Officials are reportedly blaming a recent breach of the U.S. federal court's filing system on Russia, whose hackers used the access to snoop on midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and other jurisdictions. Read More

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company: Nvidia's research lab developed the technology that took the company from a video game GPU startup to a $4 trillion-dollar company. Read More

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