OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.3B valuation
In Brief Posted: 3:41 PM PST · December 15, 2025 Image Credits:Andrew Brookes / Getty Images Lucas Ropek OpenAI-backed biotech…
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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content
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Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
For years I treated HDMI-CEC like a house spirit: sometimes helpful, mostly temperamental, never fully understood. My living-room stack is…
Ford Kills the All-Electric F-150 as It Rethinks Its EV Ambitions
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyFord is once again shifting its electric vehicle manufacturing plans, a response to a…
Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs
Carl Franzen December 15, 2025 Credit: VentureBeat made with Reve image on Fal.aiWe’ve heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots…
Merriam-Webster names ‘slop’ the word of the year
AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught…
“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number
“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number 2025-12-10Eric Daigle #infosec Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile…
Trump is recruiting Big Tech workers for the government
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Cozy Earth Is Offering 40 Percent off Pajamas Right Now
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyI love having a whimsical, comfortable wardrobe, and that doesn’t apply just to daytime…
Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data
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Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway
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Tesla starts testing robotaxis in Austin with no safety driver
Just about six months after Tesla started testing its fledgling Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, the company is now letting…
Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements…
Tokenization takes the lead in the fight for data security
Partner ContentVB Staff December 15, 2025 Presented by Capital One SoftwareTokenization is emerging as a cornerstone of modern data security,…
Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
Top Gun’s Carrier Landing: Exposed Best read with Danger Zone playing on loop Like most people, you’re probably an absolute…
IPC Mechanisms: Shared Memory vs. Message Queues Performance Benchmarking
Pushing 500K messages per second between processes and sys CPU time is through the roof. Your profiler shows mq_send() and…
Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyNvidia has made a fortune supplying chips to companies working on artificial intelligence, but…
Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won
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Feeding the machine
The VergeWritten by Josh Dzieza & Hayden FieldArt by Kristen RadtkeFrontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic need vast amounts of…
Interstellar Arc Serves Up Alien Foxes, Exoplanets, and VR Carl Sagan
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