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Jimmy Donaldson , aka MrBeast , has been talking with investors about raising $200 million in a funding round that would value his holding company, Beast Industries , at more than $5 billion .

Investors are betting that the future of MrBeast ’s business will be selling physical products, not videos.

MrBeast has never been profitable and doesn’t expect to be anytime soon.

I'm expecting Llama 4 to come with fewer guardrails in the coming weeks .

We finally got some names of researchers who have joined Ilya Sutskever ’s hyper-secretive Safe Superintelligence startup.

Eric Schmidt , Alexandr Wang , and Dan Hendrycks lay out their AI “superintelligence strategy” for governments.

Justin Mezzell is CEO of the new Digg ..

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