Tech

Re:Build, the company that spun out Slate Auto, raises US$2.1 billion

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The Massachusetts manufacturing accelerator says it will use the money to expand its capacity to build hard tech products and launch new industrial startups. General Catalyst and JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group led the round.

Binance halts withdrawals after a suspected hack

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Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, says it temporarily suspended withdrawals on multiple networks after a security incident. It says user funds are safe.

Mistral releases the weights of its trillion-parameter AI model

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The French company's Mistral Large 4 can now be downloaded and run by businesses and governments themselves, from Hugging Face or through its API.

A hack exposes details of more than 40,000 US Homeland Security employees

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The leaked data lists names, work phone numbers and addresses of staff at agencies including Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Apple launches a touchscreen MacBook Pro

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The new MacBook Pro comes in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes, with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, up to 128 GB of memory and up to 16 TB of storage.

Patients on the higher dose of retatrutide lost 20.9 per cent of their body weight, against 9.4 per cent on Ozempic.

TD, RBC and BMO block personal AI agents from online banking

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TD and RBC say they have blocked all third-party personal AI agents from direct access to authenticated banking, and BMO says it does not permit agents to access its digital properties or carry out transactions. The banks say the aim is to protect clients.

Snapchat faces a jury for the first time in a social media addiction trial

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Snap, Snapchat's parent company, must defend itself before a jury over claims its platform is addictive for young people. Instagram owner Meta is also a defendant in the Los Angeles trial, and jury selection began Wednesday.