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Instagram is considering launching a stand-alone app for its short-form–video feature, Reels, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told staff this week, according to a person who heard the remarks. Such an app would be similar to the TikTok experience of scrolling through videos, and would be Instagram’s most aggressive move so far to take advantage of its Chinese-owned rival’s uncertain position in the U.S.
Instagram’s efforts to take on TikTok are part of an initiative code-named Project Ray, which includes impr
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Consumer behaviour analysis shows decisions happen in community spaces outside stores. Consideration moments matter more than transactions. Successful APAC marketing requires cultural relevance not overwhelming digital noise. “We’re not goldfish. We have attention when we want to have attention.” With this declaration at DMWF Asia, Sukanya (Su) Das Gupta, Blis APAC’s senior insights manager, addressed... Read more » Read more ›
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"My first project at DOGE is improving the slow and paper-based retirement process," Joe Gebbia wrote in an X post. Read more ›
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While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to steal a multi-billion dollar government contract away from Verizon. The Federal Aviation Administration is on the cusp of canceling a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the communication system for the nation’s air traffic control system, […] Read more ›
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Monster Hunter Wilds is living up to its name, with some truly wild player numbers following its debut. Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk has said Grok would favor truth over "political correctness." Internal documents reveal how the company is working toward Musk's goal. Read more ›
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Ahead of the MWC, Tecno announced the world's thinnest smartphone, the Spark Slim. At only 5.75 mm thick, it features two 50 MP cameras and a powerful 5,200 mAh battery. A significant caveat in this announcement is that the phone is merely a concept — there's no information available regarding a launch date. While the company will have demo units at the MWC we are unlikely to see it in... Read more ›
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Here's why Hawaii, Connecticut, and Alabama residents paid the highest utility bills in 2024. Read more ›
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A judge ruled the OPM must retract memos calling for mass layoffs of probationary employees. Read more ›
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Meta has fired âroughly 20â employees who leaked âconfidential information outside the company,â according to a spokesperson. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,â Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold tells The Verge exclusively. âWe recently conducted […] Read more ›
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The FAA reportedly looks to cancel a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon in favor of Elon Musk's Starlink. Read more ›
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Slovenia is steadily gaining traction as a hub for innovation in Central Europe, with a growing number of startups making an impact across various industries. Despite having a smaller startup scene compared to some of its regional counterparts, Slovenia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is expanding with companies pushing boundaries in technology, sustainability, gaming, and e-commerce. We are ... Read more ›
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There’s an intra-MAGA fight playing out right now over Andrew Tate, a far-right influencer and self-described misogynist who arrived in Florida on Thursday morning. Tate, along with his brother Tristan, had been awaiting trial in Romania on human trafficking charges, but they were allowed to return to the United States overnight. Some of his supporters […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday night, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a lower court order, which would have required the Trump administration to make approximately $2 billion in foreign aid payments that it had stopped as part of a broader attack on the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It’s important not to read too much significance […] Read more ›
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Stephen and Katie Miller—he's "the prime minister," sources say; she's DOGE's comms guru—liaise between the White House and Elon Musk, and are centrally involved as he tears the government apart. Read more ›
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AI is everywhere! This ubiquitous technology is powering the apps we use daily, optimising drug development, personalising content, and now, transforming financial management. As AI continues to reshape industries, accounting is no exception. Managing finances while building a business creates a frustrating choice for entrepreneurs — spend valuable time on bookkeeping or pay expensive accountants ... Read more Read more ›
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US District Judge John Bates highlighted the DOGE office's "unclear" structure and authority as keys to the legal decision. Read more ›
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Instagram is considering launching a stand-alone app for its short-form–video feature, Reels, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told staff this week, according to a person who heard the remarks. Such an app would be similar to the TikTok experience of scrolling through videos, and would be Instagram’s most aggressive move so far to take advantage of its Chinese-owned rival’s uncertain position in the U.S. Instagram’s efforts to take on TikTok are... Read more ›
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Clint and Pam Legaspi tried to take a balanced approach when introducing their now-12-year-old daughter to technology. Her first device was an educational LeapPad tablet, not an iPad. Later, they ignored her requests for an iPhone and instead gave her an iPod Touch, but only after carefully curating its apps: giving her access to Pinterest, Messenger Kids and Roblox but not TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat. When her Bay Area elementary... Read more ›
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Cloud and chip executives have predicted for two years that Nvidia’s dominance in artificial intelligence server chips would crater, but that hasn’t come to pass. Yet Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Holdings, whose chip designs power part of Nvidia’s systems as well as those of major competitors, feels comfortable saying it’s only a matter of time before sales of other AI chips grow meaningfully as well. Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence endeavors that would dwarf anything the company has done to date and would be among the biggest of its kind, according to two people who have spoken to Meta executives about it. Based on the number of chips and the amount of power the company is discussing for the campus, it could cost more... Read more ›
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New forecasts from OpenAI show the beginning of a dramatic shift in its alliances from Microsoft, its biggest shareholder, to SoftBank, its newest benefactor. The company has told investors in recent weeks that it expects Stargate, the fledgling data center expansion project to be heavily financed by SoftBank, to support three-quarters of the computing power it will need to run and develop its AI models by 2030. That would represent... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How Apple and Qualcomm share tech’s rockiest marriage • Policy and Safety: New push for safety laws could lift parents fatigued by tech worries• The Top 5: Silicon Valley’s favorite snow toys • Shopping: Tech’s winter it item? The humble woolen ski sweater• Plus, our Recommendations: The podcast disassembling “Severance”; a godfather who gets another life; and the Hilary Duff show you... Read more ›
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You don’t have to look far to find examples of artificial intelligence startups fetching wild valuations, as some in-the-works deals for robotics and startups founded by OpenAI alumni have shown. But such examples obscure changes in how investors are valuing AI startups. The biggest developers of foundation models, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are now cheaper than they were a year ago, based on their valuations as a multiple of... Read more ›
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These days, it seems like every celebrity wants to start their own brand. Just look at Robert Downey Jr., who raised venture money last year for a coffee company he co-founded, or the gamers-slash-boxers-slash-influencers launching their own energy drinks, men’s body wash and more. But investors say they’re overwhelmed by pitches for undifferentiated or low-quality goods and are quickly souring on the sector. Four early-stage investors who previously backed celebrity... Read more ›
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Multinational companies in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals and insurance have been somewhat reluctant to adopt generative artificial intelligence to handle legally sensitive documents due to the risk of AI-generated mistakes.That seems to be changing. Take Novo Nordisk, the Danish drugmaker behind Ozempic. The company for years has tested chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and models such as Meta Platforms’ Llama to help write documents it files to regulators when submitting... Read more ›
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Before we get into today’s column, leaders at OpenAI have told some employees that GPT-4.5—the model known internally as Orion—will be released this week, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations.Don’t get too excited though. A person who’s tested the model told us that its performance on certain tasks have been mixed; for instance, Anthropic’s recently-released Claude 3.7 Sonnet beats it on certain benchmarks, the person said.Perhaps we... Read more ›
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