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Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company’s video-streaming service, had been striking, including for “Argylle,” a spy action-comedy starring Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa.
The movie, which cost $200 million to produce, hadn’t found much of an audience or generated more subscribers for the service, Cook told his colleagues, according to a former Apple TV+ employee. Cook had good reason to scrutinize Apple TV+, as it is the only Apple subsc
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Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Elon Musk over two nights following the Tesla arson and vandalism attacks — and the Tesla CEO was listening. Read more ›
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Elon Musk shared a photo of his DOGE office setup at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Friday, revealing a massive gaming screen. Read more ›
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Trump said "special needs" education and nutrition programs will be handled by HHS and the Small Business Administration will handle student loans. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said at an all-hands meeting on Tuesday evening that he "can't walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire." Read more ›
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Elon Musk's super PAC has spent millions of dollars on a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the first major statewide campaign since Trump's election. Read more ›
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Surprise! Dragon Age: The Veilguard has just gained a few more weapons on PC, thanks to the arrival of the Rook's Weapons Appearance Bundle. Read more Read more ›
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The NGAD will replace the F-22 Raptor, which entered service two decades ago, as the US Air Force's top air superiority fighter. Read more ›
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"So what I am saying is, 'Hang on to your stock,'" Musk told employees in the Texas Gigafactory. Read more ›
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Accenture is one of 10 major consulting firms whose government contracts are being reviewed as Elon Musk and DOGE look to cut federal spending. Read more ›
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Beast Industries made $473 million in revenue last year, according to the deck, and forecasts revenues of $899 million this year. Read more ›
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AMD introduces Gaia, an open-source project designed to run large language models locally on any PC. It also boasts optimizations to run quickly on Ryzen AI-equipped PCs. Read more ›
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A few years ago, the American automaker General Motors (GM) announced that it would be phasing out support for CarPlay and Android Auto in its new electric vehicles, in favor of its own software platform. It was a controversial decision, as many drivers who are in the market for a new vehicle consider CarPlay to be a must-have feature. Looking to capitalize on the situation, one GM dealership near Detroit,... Read more ›
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Attending Barnard College in New York was a dream come true. I eventually dropped out because I needed more money and wanted to be closer to family. Read more ›
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The proudest moment in my career was giving my English teacher signed copies of my books. She was the one who taught me how to write. Read more ›
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The company is waiting on a vote that would turn Starbase into its own city. Read more ›
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Wedbush analyst Dan Ives previously warned Tesla was spiraling into a "brand crisis tornado" amid widespread protests and a plunging share price. Read more ›
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Trump's Commerce Secretary pushed "unbelievably cheap" Tesla stock as shares continued to fall. Read more ›
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The agreement language sent to Paul Weiss staff has some major differences from what Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, like no mention of DEI. Read more ›
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Not satisfied with effectively buying a co-president role in Donald Trump’s administration, Elon Musk has turned his attention — and money — towards a key race in the swing state of Wisconsin. The billionaire’s America PAC is claiming to give $100 to registered voters who sign a petition against “activist judges.” It’s not the first […] Read more ›
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Before OpenAI in January launched Operator, its artificial intelligence that uses the web to plan trips, compile reports and shop online for people, it asked DoorDash to be an official “launch partner” for the new product. DoorDash agreed—but it had a question. In a meeting last fall between the companies, a DoorDash executive asked OpenAI managers to “take this to its logical limit,” according to someone who attended the meeting.... Read more ›
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Google plans to work with a new firm to help design and produce some of its artificial intelligence chips: MediaTek. Google is preparing to team up with the Taiwanese firm on the next version of the chips, known as Tensor Processing Units, that would be produced next year, according to two people involved in the project. Read more ›
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Until this week, I didn’t know Keith O’Brien existed. The payroll compliance manager—and now accused corporate spy—was suddenly very interested in me. O’Brien’s curiosity was piqued last month when I was writing a story about a bitter feud between his company, Rippling, and its archrival, Deel. O’Brien allegedly searched for my name in Rippling’s Slack channels 15 times. He searched for the name of this publication, The Information, 31 times.... Read more ›
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Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company’s video-streaming service, had been striking, including for “Argylle,” a spy action-comedy starring Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa. The movie, which cost $200 million to produce, hadn’t found much of an audience or generated more subscribers for the service, Cook told his colleagues, according to a former Apple TV+ employee. Cook had... Read more ›
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How much money can AI save a business? That’s a hugely important question for businesses nowadays—uncertainty about the answer is holding up wider adoption of various new AI products, as we described on several fronts this week. (See this piece on Salesforce’s struggles in selling its new AI agent tool, and these other two stories on the same theme). And on this point, a securities filing by the installment lender... Read more ›
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Next month, a much-anticipated Federal Trade Commission trial against Meta Platforms is expected to kick off in a federal courtroom in Washington. If the government gets its way, the trial could end up forcing Meta to sell one or both of its most popular apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, but it will likely take months or years before that’s known. But the trial is already having an impact on how Meta... Read more ›
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For Silicon Valley venture capitalists dealing with overpriced bets made during the low-interest rate period, Rippling and Deel have been bright spots. The San Francisco HR rivals passed new revenue milestones and minted higher valuations—great news for investors who poured a combined $2 billion into both startups. By some measures, Deel’s investors have had the most to crow about. Deel, the six-year-old startup valued at $12.6 billion in February, passed... Read more ›
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The unexpected popularity of Manus, a so-called computer-using AI that takes over a person’s web browser to execute tasks like travel booking and stock analysis, has put the Chinese startup behind it in a bind. The firm’s ability to meet demand for the product, also known as an agent, is limited both by its server capacity and, more importantly, by its operating costs. Manus uses Anthropic’s AI models and pays... Read more ›
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As Google attempts to catch up to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, its DeepMind artificial intelligence unit is in a near constant state of flux. Two years after Google merged its two AI units to form Google DeepMind, the unit’s chief, Demis Hassabis, has expanded his purview by adding numerous other teams. He has added oversight of Google’s Gemini chatbot, Google’s AI studio team, which creates software for developers building apps using Gemini,... Read more ›
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One of the most underappreciated applications of artificial intelligence in the corporate world involves its role in writing performance reviews.Take Moderna, the pharmaceutical giant. Late last year, Brice Challamel, its vice president of AI products and platforms, noticed a trend: ChatGPT usage by the pharmaceutical firm’s employees spiked every quarter, around the time managers conduct performance reviews. Staff appeared to use ChatGPT to write both their self-evaluations and those of... Read more ›
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