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[ad_1] In the fast-evolving world of generative AI, a new kind of arms race is underway, one that has less to do with GPUs and more to do with data. And Reddit, once a renegade darling of the internet, is now learning just how vulnerable its own data can be.The company’s lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, filed on Wednesday in Superior Court in San Francisco, accuses the Claude chatbot maker of illegally scraping Reddit content to train its models. But this lawsuit invites a question Reddit may not want to ask too loudly: Is this really data theft, or just…
[ad_1] The most loyal fans of podcasts aren’t just good listeners — they’re paying customers.While podcasters often earn money from advertisements that run during their episodes, many are finding success turning listeners into paid subscribers.Patreon, a community subscription platform, has become a go-to tool for content creators with podcasts to do just that.”Most podcast listeners and podcast fans are just familiar with Patreon,” Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of the “Therapy for Black Girls” podcast, told Business Insider. Her podcast launched a Patreon in April.Patreon now has more than 6.7 million paid memberships under the podcasting category, the company said.…
[ad_1] CNN — President Trump, the poster-in-chief, may have finally been outmatched — by the owner of the social media platform he used to love. Elon Musk posted fast and furiously against Trump on Thursday, wielding his X account like a political weapon, the same way he previously used it to trash President Biden and other Democrats. Trump tried to keep up on his own, much smaller site, Truth Social, but the president was no match for a social media-addicted mogul who sometimes posts more than 100 times per day, even in the middle of the night. While Trump has…
[ad_1] CNN — It wasn’t long ago that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was advocating for ending the $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles. “Take away the subsidies. It will only help Tesla,” he said in a post on his social media platform X last year, adding “Also remove the subsidies from all industries!” But now, with House budget and tax bill known as the “big, beautiful bill” proposing to end that tax credit, he and Tesla are suddenly arguing for the continuation of those same credits as the Senate debates its own version of the bill. “Abruptly ending…
[ad_1] Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability in a “couple of weeks” and is available starting today in its AI developer platforms AI Studio and Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Image Credits:Google “[Gemini 2.5 Pro] continues to excel at coding, leading on difficult coding benchmarks,” Google wrote in a blog…
[ad_1] The market is once again all in on Broadcom , pushing up the stock 31% over the past month and 14% this year. Eyes now turn to its fiscal second-quarter earnings report for the quarter that ended in April, due to be released Thursday after the market close. Investors have piled into the chipmaker and infrastructure software provider after strong first-quarter earnings were reported in March, when Broadcom’s second-quarter guidance for sales and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, also topped analysts’ estimates and it touted “continued strength in AI semiconductor revenue.” A month later,…
[ad_1] 2025-06-05T16:33:08Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Nintendo launched the Switch 2 at midnight on June 5, drawing crowds that waited overnight for the release. The company said it expects to sell 15 million units in the current fiscal year. Nintendo didn’t increase the base cost of the console due to tariffs, but did boost the price of…
[ad_1] Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldBlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said the US was “going to hit the wall” unless the economy grows quickly enough to manage higher deficits from government spending, as a growing chorus of financiers warn about the country’s mounting debt. Fink, who leads the world’s largest asset manager, characterised the deficit as one of the “two most consequential issues” US politicians are ignoring, as President Donald Trump looks to pass tax cuts that will add $2.4tn to the national debt…
[ad_1] Some of the key people behind Google’s viral AI podcasting app NotebookLM have launched a new startup, and it just unveiled its first product.NotebookLM went viral last year for letting users create AI-generated podcasts about any topic they liked. Some even called it Google’s ChatGPT moment.NotebookLM team lead Raiza Martin, designer Jason Spielman, and engineer Stephen Hughes learned from building the app that a surprising number of people actually learn best through audio—not necessarily through text like ChatGPT. They also learned that building a product outside a tech giant like Google is much faster.So, in December 2024, they left…
[ad_1] Despite a disappointing run so far this year, history shows Apple can regain momentum in the coming months. JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee pointed to the stock’s outperformance compared with the S & P 500 in all but one of the past seven years when looking at a timeframe beginning in June and ending in mid-September. That’s because investors typically grow excited into new iPhone releases. On average, over the past seven years, Apple shares have rallied 18% during this period. By comparison, the S & P 500 has risen less than 6%. That would be a welcome change for…