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For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth platform Atlas Capital in San Francisco

You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on an open model and gain greater control? Fine-tune your own version? Run locally? Use multiple models? Change strategy six months from now when the economics and capabilities shift again?

The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.

Jeff Lawson has already helped build a company with more than $4 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers worldwide. After scaling Twilio into a public company, his next challenge reaches well beyond software: bringing fusion power to the grid as co-founder and CEO of Inertia.

In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening.

This year has brought a well-timed pair of updates to some of the high-end smartwatch lines on the market. Both the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4 debuted this summer, and the premium wearables have a fair bit in common. Beyond the obvious personal preference for one product ecosystem over the…

The Galaxy S26 FE is the latest edition of Samsung’s “fan edition” phone series, which attempts to strike a middle ground between its flagship “S” phones and its cheaper entry-level A-series. Maintaining that balance is difficult. What features and specs do you try to match? What compromises need to be made? Some of us will…

Anthropic has established a biology research lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to conduct physical experiments, according to Reuters. Eric Kauderer-Abrams, the company’s Head of Life Sciences, has confirmed the lab’s existence to the news organization. “We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real…

Newly released court documents show that multiple Microsoft execs thought AI training was an ‘existential threat’ to journalism.

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or an asteroid that’s about the size of a three- to six‑story building slammed into the lunar surface and made the largest modern-day crater in our solar system. While we weren’t able to observe it in real time, we can now see what it looks like,…