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Meta Platforms has laid off more than 100 employees in its augmented and virtual reality unit Reality Labs, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The cuts affected those working in Oculus Studios, which develops apps and games for the company’s Quest headsets, and on hardware efforts. “Some teams within ...
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Pam Bondi sold her stock in Trump Media on April 2, the same day that Trump announced a slew of new tariffs that sent the market tumbling. Read more ›
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Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump confirmed their relationship on social media earlier this year. The couple, who both live in Florida, bonded over their kids' interest in golf. Read more ›
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Jack Hartung, who served as CFO of the Mexican fast-food chain for two decades, will join Tesla's board in June, the automaker announced on Friday. Read more ›
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The move comes after the legendary 'Star Wars' voice actor sold the rights to his voice to AI firm Respeecher before his death. Read more ›
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After returning from the bathroom, the Lufthansa flight's captain found he was initially unable to get back into the cockpit. Read more ›
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly heading to Nintendo's Switch 2, for a potential release later this year. Read more Read more ›
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Trump's tariffs have companies scrambling as they navigate cost increases. Here are the companies that have talked about hiking prices. Read more ›
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Air travel is remarkably, astonishingly safe. Every year, commercial US airlines take more than 800 million domestic passengers to their destinations, and in a typical year, zero of them are killed and very few are injured. It’s a track record made possible by a fairly intense commitment to safety. But increasingly over the last few […] Read more ›
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Ukraine said the F-16 fighter jet took out three Russian targets but had an issue on board while trying to stop a fourth. The pilot ejected safely. Read more ›
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Investor Zach Posner explains why legal-tech funding is thriving in a sluggish venture capital market. Read more ›
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The FDA-cleared LED mask features targeted modes for helping reduce fine lines and blemishes, but if you're consistent, the benefits go far deeper. Read more ›
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American chip exports could come with geotracking capabilities to prevent diversions to and misuse in countries of concern. Read more ›
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Shortwave's AI email productivity tool was made with simplicity -- and specifically Google users -- in mind. Read more ›
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Alex George was fired from her TV news job while undergoing cancer treatment. Now, she has her dream job: baking for social media. Read more ›
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We’re not just managing one crisis. We’re standing on the threshold of something bigger, a chance to rethink how we live, work, and care for each other. Read more ›
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Simply being open to AI isn't enough for Fiverr's CEO — if you're not already using it, you're out of the running. Read more ›
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Chinese officials in the past two months told some of the country’s top technology companies that the government will take a more active role in overseeing their data centers for artificial intelligence and the specialized chips for developing the technology, according to two people involved in the conversations. The Chinese government wants companies to build new data centers in specific locations that give authorities greater visibility into their operations, these... Read more ›
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The Tiger Global Management megafund that made more than 200 investments during the peak of the pandemic-era startup boom was still in the red at the end of 2024, thanks to write-downs on a majority of its investments. But the spike in valuations of OpenAI and other artificial intelligence investments is softening the blow for the $12.7 billion fund, famous for both its size and the speed with which it... Read more ›
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The race to develop reasoning models that “think” harder is at full force. At Anthropic, which arrived later than OpenAI and Google to the reasoning race, two upcoming models are taking the concept of “thinking” to the extreme.Anthropic has new versions of its two largest models—Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus—set to come out in the upcoming weeks, according to two people who have used them. What makes these models different... Read more ›
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By hiring Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to manage OpenAI’s business, CEO Sam Altman can focus on his primary ambition: attaining artificial superintelligence. The term refers to technology that would help humans solve fundamental scientific challenges around energy and physics to become multiplanetary, colonizing other planets and eventually other star systems, according to a person who has heard him speak about it.At OpenAI, Altman has even discussed the grandiose idea of... Read more ›
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After weeks of news about Google’s antitrust travails, the tech giant will try to reset the narrative next week by highlighting advances it is making in artificial intelligence, cloud and Android technology at its annual I/O developer conference. Ahead of I/O, Google has been demonstrating to employees and outside developers an array of different products, including an AI agent for software development. Known internally as a “software development lifecycle agent,”... Read more ›
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The nation’s biggest tech companies have reshuffled the ranks of their senior leaders in the last year. That means executives with decades of experience in enterprise software, digital ad sales and product development are newly or soon to be available for their next job. Below we have details on six leaders. They include Amazon Web Services’ former CEO, Adam Selipsky, as well as OpenAI’s former chief research officer, Bob McGrew,... Read more ›
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Long before Donald Trump entered the White House for a second time, it was becoming clear we were entering a radically different world. Rising nationalism and increased cross-border friction were replacing the open, interconnected system that reigned supreme for three decades. Even in 2015, prior to President Trump’s first term, President Xi Jinping was laying out a “Made in China” strategy to boost the country’s high-tech manufacturing. By now, most... Read more ›
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TikTok has been working on a new feature that will allow users in the U.S. to share photos over direct messages inside the app, according to three people with knowledge of the situation. The move could be a way to encourage more people to use direct messaging on TikTok, a feature that hasn’t taken off as it has on Instagram and Snapchat. But the plans have sparked debate inside TikTok.... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s deadline for launching Tesla’s first robotaxi service, in Austin, Texas, is weeks away, but the company hadn’t started testing its cars without a human safety driver as of last month, according to an engineer close to the testing and a former employee. That’s a crucial step required before Tesla can launch the pilot service for customers. Tesla has been training its most popular model, the Model Y, in... Read more ›
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For a town with a population of just over 1,000, a Bible college and a quaint main street, there’s an unusual amount of bustle in Ellendale, N.D. A housing project with 20 homes is going up, along with a 38-unit apartment complex. Even a new pickleball court just opened. All of the developments are meant to support an anticipated influx of people to help operate a 300,000-square-foot data center that... Read more ›
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