Updated December 25, 12:21 p.m. Pacific: Added details on xAI’s valuation and Kingdom Holdings’ contribution. xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion in a Series C funding round. The company announced this week in which Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Nvidia,…
Did you just unbox a shiny new iPhone? Congratulations! You’re now the proud owner of a handheld supercomputer whose operating system is powerful, elegant, and refreshingly simple (sorry, Android fans). But despite its simplicity, iOS 18 – or any recent version of iOS – has much more to offer than the standard setup you’re faced…
Thailand is considering a potential Bitcoin pilot project, proposed by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which would be tested in Phuket as a tourism-focused sandbox. The proposal has received support from the CEO of Binance Thailand, who sees it as a positive step for the country’s competitiveness and its ability to attract tech-savvy visitors. However,…
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll bring you a handful of Android wallpapers that you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even laptop/PC. The images will come from people from here to Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free and…
When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thwarted his travel plans, Belgian photographer Carl De Keyzer decided to take a virtual trip to Russia. From his home, the famous documentary photographer began working on a collection of images about Russia using generative artificial intelligence (AI). He was not prepared for the consequences. In the late 1980s, De…
Table of contents Table of contents Finally, no more pixelated images and videos It’s the little things Apple’s Messages app has certainly come a long way. When the first iPhone launched in 2007, it could only send text messages – there weren’t even picture messages. Then it got support for MMS protocol in iPhone OS…
It’s no secret Cathie Wood, the brainchild of growth investing expects great things from Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC). Fund manager Ark Invest started talking about crypto before it was a household name and recently doubled down on its bullish projections. In an interview with Bloomberg TV last Thursday, Wood reiterated a Bitcoin price target of between $1.0…
The Asian mobile phone market is very interesting, with a significantly wider range of devices sold in the region than anywhere else. The usual Chinese contingent of Vivo, OPPO, OnePlus, Xiaomi and Honor dominate sales, but Samsung and Google also sell most of their products in Asian markets, and Apple is slowly gaining momentum with…
Growth stocks can be a wild ride. Long-term upside usually comes with stomach-churning volatility. monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY) is currently experiencing ups and downs. As of this writing, shares are down about 28% from their highs. The company software as a service business model disrupts the way employees collaborate in the workplace, and additional catalysts such as…
The synergies between AI and crypto are very promising. In fact, the new Trump administration is consolidating the two sectors into a single advisory office. The president-elect calls him the White House crypto and AI czar. Trump’s appointee for the position, former PayPal COO David Sacks, has strong ties to payments and crypto. AI could…