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When people want to buy a product promoted by an influencer on Instagram or YouTube, the process can be clunky, often involving a maze of affiliate links or switching between multiple apps. Now, Walmart is working to make social shopping smoother by having more checkouts happen inside social apps themselves, the company’s chief technology officer, Suresh Kumar, told me. That could potentially include deals to link shoppers’ Walmart accounts and payment information to services such as TikTok, Instagram or Yo
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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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Tesla says it will fix the sticky issue—which could cause panels to detach from trucks while driving—with a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.” 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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Truncale says female colleagues told her to accept her status as the first woman to lead a Big Four firm, and use it to help drive change. Read more ›
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The government's argument for why the DOGE minions needed millions of Americans' sensitive data was unpersuasive. Read more ›
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Almost two dozen flights returned to their destination after Heathrow Airport shut down, with some passengers in the air for nearly seven hours. Read more ›
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In the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts, researchers and volunteers around the world are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online. 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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Coca-Cola is installing what the company claims to be the world’s first hydrogen-powered vending machines at the World Expo 2025, which will open to the public in Osaka, Japan, on April 13th, 2025. Co-developed by Fuji Electric, the machines don’t need access to a power outlet and instead rely on replaceable hydrogen cartridges to fuel […] 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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The Apple TV+ sci-fi series will be back for more after this week's thrilling season two finale. Read more ›
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Motorola is expected to unveil new Edge phones soon. Recently, leaks about one of these devices, the , have started circulating. The latest tease comes from Flipkart (via ), which shows off a closeup of the device. As you can see below, the Edge 60 Fusion is expected to have a curved display. That display […] Read more ›
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Apple needs a big, splashy product reveal to regain its mojo – and I have one wild idea Read more ›
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Ubisoft has announced its first sales milestone for Assassin's Creed Shadows, which launched yesterday and had notched up more than a million players by the afternoon. Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s electric-car maker says panel may fall off pick-up truck causing a ‘road hazard’ Read more ›
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Honor unveiled the Pad X9 in July 2023, and today, the brand followed it up with the 'a' model. The Honor Pad X9a is built around an 11.5" LCD of 2,508x1,504-pixel resolution. It has a 120Hz screen refresh rate and 400 nits peak brightness. The tablet is fueled by an 8,300 mAh battery with 35W charging support. The Honor Pad X9a is powered by the Snapdragon 685 SoC, runs Android... Read more ›
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DaringFireball: Whole Reddit thread examining this simple question: "What month is it?" and Siri's "I'm sorry, I don't understand" response (which I just reproduced on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.4b4). One guy changed the question to "What month is it currently?" and got the answer "It is 2025." More comments from that thread:"I ask Siri to play a podcast and she literally says, "I'm trying to play from... Read more ›
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Disney’s new live-action Snow White, dogged by controversy after controversy, must have been cursed at birth by a wicked fairy (oops, wait, wrong fairy tale). It has to be disconcerting for the studio. The original animated film was such a massive success when it was first released in 1937 that it more or less invented […] Read more ›
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President Trump wanted to ban TikTok. Now he wants to save TikTok. There might even be a plan to save TikTok, though right now it feels more like a âconcepts of a planâ situation. Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to press hard on regulating Big Tech, while also cozying up to their CEOs â and […] 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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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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In this week’s episode: Waymo, Larry Page, TikTok and our first $1 million More or Less bet. YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Read more ›
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