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Citadel is trying to drag some of Marshall Wace's biggest names into its legal fight with a former portfolio manager

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Ken Griffin's Citadel is battling with London-based Marshall Wace over the latter's recruitment of Dan Shatz. Bloomberg/Getty Images Citadel is trying to bring Marshall Wace's Anthony Clarke and Alan Hofmeyr into its legal fight. Clarke and Hofmeyr, Citadel alleges in new filings, helped recruit former Citadel PM Dan Shatz. The legal tussle between Citadel and Marshall Wace stems from an arbitration fight with Shatz. Ken Griffin's Citadel is asking the courts to force a pair of Marshall Wace big shots to turn over any messages they have about the recruitment of a credit portfolio manager. Citadel's attorneys state in a new filing that Marshall Wace has produced limited communications on the recruitment of former Citadel portfolio manager Dan Shatz, who joined Marshall Wace in late 2024 as its global head of credit. Citadel said in its filings that only a single text message chain between Shatz and Marshall Wace quant trading head Nick Nielsen has been shared since...
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Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners (Rocket Drew/The Information)

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Rocket Drew / The Information : Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners   —  For all the talk of robots that look like humans, the next robots to move into people's houses could look more like ducks. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/EARhv1n
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Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios : Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek   —  Agentrys, a Nvidia alum-led chip design startup, raised $24.5 million in funding, CEO Mark Ren tells Axios Pro exclusively. … - The platform allows users to create their own agents … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/6isUycb
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The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more   —  Apple's changing of the guard will be gradual, with outgoing CEO Tim Cook handling Trump, China. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/JgSDpcW
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Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on their PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

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Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer : Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on their PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage   —  Anthropic is warning some Claude users that infostealer malware on their PCs has stolen active Claude login sessions … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/VkWUxtJ
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Analysis: AI chatbots challenged or didn't respond to 90%+ of 15 false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran; AI overviews did it 60%+ of the time (Huo Jingnan/NPR)

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Huo Jingnan / NPR : Analysis: AI chatbots challenged or didn't respond to 90%+ of 15 false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran; AI overviews did it 60%+ of the time   —  Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3EpAgvo
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Our daughter inspired a YouTube show that we started in our closet. Now we're set on creating an empire.

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Dr. Javoris Hollingsworth and Dr. Arlene Hollingsworth started Gracie's Corner. Courtesy of Dr. Javoris Hollingsworth and Dr. Arlene Hollingsworth Javoris Hollingsworth had a tenured position teaching organic chemistry. During the pandemic, he and his wife started "Gracie's Corner" for their own kids. Two years after launching, he resigned from teaching to work on the show full-time. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Javoris Hollingsworth and Arlene Hollingsworth, founders of Gracie's Corner . It has been edited for length and clarity . My wife and I started Gracie's Corner out of necessity. We were both working as professors during the pandemic, and we were using every resource we had to keep our three kids occupied. One of those resources was YouTube. But I noticed, there weren't many characters who looked like our kids. In such a diverse world , it's important that everyone feels seen. I started working with my daughter Graceyn,...
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