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Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging creators, as my colleague Sylvia and I detailed in a story on Thursday. Facebook staffers have been talking to the teams of prominent YouTubers including MrBeast and former NASA engineer Mark Rober to get their feedback on how to make the app better for creators, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. (Rober confirmed the talks, while MrBeast’s spokesperson didn’t provide a comment.)
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Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five uniformed leaders. Read more ›
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Media companies have been putting full-length episodes of shows, entire movies, and even originals onto YouTube. Read more ›
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Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate prices. Read more ›
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This user-friendly countertop stone mill grinds dried wheat berries, quinoa, and more with the flip of a switch. Read more ›
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Parasite, Y Tu Mamá También, and The Two Popes are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month. Read more ›
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The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records. Read more ›
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Asked if he worried about "ending up like Robert Oppenheimer," Google DeepMind's CEO said that he loses sleep over the idea. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that […] Read more ›
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One of the big challenges of reporting on the new administration is that it’s hard to figure out who’s really calling the shots. Take AI. In his comments to world leaders at the AI Action Summit in Paris last week, Vice President JD Vance laid out one view of where the Trump administration should go […] Read more ›
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Plus: Apple’s visionOS 2.4 makes it easier for guests to use the Vision Pro, Eero has two new Wi-Fi 7 routers, Oppo’s folding phone is the slimmest yet, and Omega drops a bronze Bond watch. Read more ›
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One of the Koch brothers has relisted his Aspen estate for its highest-ever price: $125 million. It could break a state record set just last year. Read more ›
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Although it has produced plenty of reliable and attractive cars, trucks, and SUVs, Nissan also made some bold design choices that resulted in these ugly models. Read more ›
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Who hasn’t heard the phrase “ignorance is bliss” a thousand times? Like all cliches, it sticks because it’s rooted in truth, but it’s worth asking why ignorance can be so satisfying. If you read the history of philosophy, you don’t find all that much interest in the delights of ignorance. Instead, you hear a lot […] Read more ›
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With the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have obtained a detailed study of the activity from the Milky Way's central black hole. Read more ›
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The Enermax Revolution D.F. 12 750W power supply delivers excellent power quality, solid efficiency, and compact design but faces stiff competition at its price point. It's an ideal option for performance-focused users. Read more ›
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Letâs pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. Thereâs been a lot of panic about the immediate but somewhat abstract constitutional crisis as Elon Muskâs misleadingly-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rips the government apart. And as much fun as we all are having watching Congress render itself irrelevant […] Read more ›
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Plus: Apple turns off end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the UK after pressure to install a backdoor, and two spyware apps expose victim data—and the identities of people who installed the apps. Read more ›
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Zero Day, Apple Cider Vinegar, and Squid Game are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month. Read more ›
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Meta has offered up a lucrative new executive bonus plan, according to a company filing released Thursday. Under the new plan, executives could earn a yearly bonus of 200 percent of their base salary, which is up from 75 percent. This comes just after Meta announced sweeping layoffs impacting five percent of its workforce. A committee for Meta’s board of directors approved the change on February 13, on the grounds... Read more ›
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Broadcom has joined TSMC in considering possible deals to buy part of Intel, the Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of the U.S. chipmaking icon’s steady decline. Last week officials within the Trump administration asked TSMC, which makes most of the world’s most advanced chips on ... Read more ›
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Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging creators, as my colleague Sylvia and I detailed in a story on Thursday. Facebook staffers have been talking to the teams of prominent YouTubers including MrBeast and former NASA engineer Mark Rober to get their feedback on how to make the app better for creators, according to a person with direct knowledge of the... Read more ›
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To make Facebook cool again, Meta Platforms is asking some of the most popular creators on YouTube for advice, ranging from MrBeast to Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who explains scientific concepts. The creators aren’t holding back. Facebook has a “big hill to climb,” said Rober, who has 64 million followers on YouTube and 5.3 million on Facebook, and whose team has been talking to Meta about Facebook for... Read more ›
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Uncertainty about the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies is dampening expectations for how consumer spending will hold up this year. Just look at Walmart, which today projected that its revenue growth this fiscal year would slow to between 3% and 4%, compared with 5% for the year that ended Jan. 31, 2025. Executives used variations of the word “uncertain” five times on a call with analysts. And... Read more ›
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The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said on X that the reasoning version of Grok 3 performs around the level of... Read more ›
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Long gone are the days when podcasting just meant audio episodes. Spotify and others have been pushing podcasters to post video versions of their shows, which can open up new types of advertising such as product placement and give podcasters video clips that can expand their reach. But some podcasters are skeptical that the video effort will pay off. Video is “forcing people to change what the core competency of... Read more ›
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The question “What did Ilya see?” became an oft-repeated meme asking why OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, cast a dramatic vote to oust Sam Altman in the short-lived ouster of the CEO 15 months ago. A significant fundraising that would value Sutskever’s new startup, Safe Superintelligence, at more than $30 billion turns that question on its head. The new money would make the company one of the 12 most valuable... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has long been a vocal critic of Microsoft. A couple of years ago, he accused the company of violating antitrust laws in how it sells software bundles. More recently, he has slammed its artificial intelligence chatbot for giving inaccurate responses and being difficult to use. But that history hasn’t stopped Salesforce from including Microsoft in negotiations it is having with several cloud providers—also including Google and... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Nuclear power could help tech solve its AI-driven electricity problem, if new reactors can actually get built.• Venture Bets: There’s a vibe shift in nuclear startup investing.• Clean Energy: Fusion, geothermal, solar. It’s not all about nuclear fission.• Plus, our Recommendations, messed-up love edition: A Lynch affair; Kafka for the ChatGPT generation and romance with a Scottish brogue.“This weekend feels like San... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ eyewear partner, EssilorLuxottica, plans to expand annual production capacity for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to 10 million units by the end of next year, CEO Francesco Milleri said last week. Speaking on the company’s earnings call, Milleri also revealed that since the ... Read more ›
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