Dry weather to prevail in most parts of Pakistan

Dry weather to prevail in most parts of Pakistan

According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), most parts of the country are expected to experience dry weather today, while mountainous regions will remain cold with partly cloudy skies. In northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir, isolated areas may receive light rain accompanied by thunder, while higher mountains could witness light snowfall. The daytime temperatures in central and southern regions …

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Inside OpenAI’s new Bellevue office: A swanky statement about AI’s impact on the Seattle region

Inside OpenAI’s new Bellevue office: A swanky statement about AI’s impact on the Seattle region

A lounge area at OpenAI’s new Bellevue office. (Trevor Tondro Photo for OpenAI) OpenAI officially opened its new engineering office in downtown Bellevue, Wash., on Thursday, unveiling a retro-modern, wood-paneled space for its 250 employees in the region — with enough room in the tower to ultimately accommodate as many as 1,400 people. It’s already the ChatGPT and Codex maker’s …

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Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain label in court | TechCrunch

Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain label in court | TechCrunch

Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic plans to challenge the Defense Department’s decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk in court, a designation he has called “legally unsound.” The statement comes a few hours after the Department officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk following a weeks-long dispute over how much control the military should have over …

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Silicon Valley tech vet: ‘No better time to start companies than now’

Silicon Valley tech vet: ‘No better time to start companies than now’

Pablo Casilimas (left), founding partner at OneSixOne Ventures, with Sudheesh Nair, co-founder and CEO of TinyFish. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The AI moment is not just another tech cycle — it’s one of the best openings founders have seen in years. That was the message from Sudheesh Nair, a longtime Bay Area tech leader and co-founder of enterprise web …

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X’s Exclusive Threads feature lets creators paywall the end of tweet threads

X’s Exclusive Threads feature lets creators paywall the end of tweet threads

Today, X announced some updates to its creator subscriptions platform. The leading change gives participating accounts the option to make part of tweet threads only visible to subscribers. This new Creator Subscriptions feature is called Exclusive Threads, an ironic name choice given X’s main text-based social media posting competitor is called Threads. The new tool allows a creator to tease …

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DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable | TechCrunch

DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable | TechCrunch

A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior executives of potential targets and modeling financial outcomes, these groups spend millions of dollars on external advisers: accountants, lawyers, and management consultants. Since expenses for external advisers are not reimbursed if a deal falls …

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Amazon.com is on the mend after experiencing technical issues

Amazon.com is on the mend after experiencing technical issues

Amazon’s website appears to be stabilizing after experiencing technical issues that kept users from logging in and prevented prices from displaying correctly. DownDetector reported a spike of outage reports around 2PM ET, but as of 5:56PM ET, user complaints have fallen significantly. The Amazon.com homepage currently loads, and Engadgets staff have been able to load product pages and view prices …

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