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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. Some employees are concerned that introducing photos to messaging could lead to a proliferation of sextortion scams and ot
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Report finds millions still rely on outdated Wi-Fi routers that cannot handle modern internet demands, leading to congestion, instability, and reduced broadband performance. Read more ›
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Former leader Lucas Matheson left the crypto exchange in December to join Opendoor. Read more ›
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Google scored a big victory yesterday as its Gemini model became the foundation of Apple’s new Siri. But the tech giant is pushing even harder to grab as much market share during the AI boom as possible – it just made its base AI plan cheaper. Google AI Plus used to be $8 a month and came with 200GB of storage. The monthly price has been reduced to $5 or... Read more ›
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The effort to push several tax bills is meant to be bipartisan, but the parties may not be comfortable with all details of the seven bills weighed by the panel. Read more ›
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Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s most capable public model yet, but it won’t find your zero-days. Read more ›
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The automaker today is turning on vehicle-to-grid charging for its GM Energy customers. Will people actually use it? Read more ›
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Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model for enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company says broader access is possible thanks to new safeguards that block high-risk requests in areas like cybersecurity and biology. "For us, it's really around what we call 'race to the top,' being able to provide this technology in a valuable fashion, and at the same time providing the right safety guardrails so... Read more ›
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All the ways to watch Argentina vs Iceland live streams – including for FREE – with Scaloni sweating over Messi's injury status ahead of the World Cup warm-up. Read more ›
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The 'Among Us' animated series—starring Elijah Wood, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Patton Oswalt—is a delightful mix of comedy and horror, now streaming on Paramount+. Read more ›
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At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It's releasing a […] Read more ›
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iOS 27 beta has code in its framework that seems to point to the existence of a foldable iPhone, among other hints. Read more ›
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Fuel economy isn't always in our (or the automaker's) hands; nature plays a big role here too, and even a breeze can have a big impact on our mpg. Read more ›
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After first announcing its scarily capable Mythos Preview model back in April, Anthropic is releasing a public version of Mythos, called Fable 5, that it says is "safe for general use." Read more ›
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Shopify said Tuesday that it would expand its share buyback authorization by $3 billion to a total authorization of $5 billion, becoming the latest software firm to unveil expanded share repurchase plans as AI fears have battered stock prices. Several software firms have implemented or expanded ... Read more ›
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Snowflake and AtScale, a startup provider of software that companies like Toyota and Cardinal Health use to define consistent business metrics from their data, announced that they’re working together on a product that could help customers avoid getting caught in the AI data wars. The ... Read more ›
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The poor souls responsible for technology buying decisions at companies must be overwhelmed these days. Not only does seemingly every other tech firm want to send consultants—invariably calling themselves forward-deployed engineers as though they’re on maneuver in the desert—to help companies learn how to use their AI services, but the array of AI product choices seems to grow daily. On Tuesday, for instance, OpenAI held an event in New York... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s $75 billion offering will impact a lot more than just the employees and investors who are looking to cash in on their stock. It will also be a gauge of enthusiasm for tech IPOs, helping set the stage for other mega IPOs like Anthropic and OpenAI. If SpaceX’s IPO doesn’t take off, “you’d see a pullback in institutional capital that would have been available for other IPOs that want... Read more ›
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Walmart is trying to make its Sparky assistant smarter and more capable for shoppers by collecting more real-world data on how people shop inside its 3,500-plus U.S. superstores. Gathering more in-store information has been a focus for the company since Sparky launched about a year ago, said Hari Vasudev, Walmart’s U.S. chief technology officer, and the retailer plans to expand those efforts. That could include tracking when shoppers talk with... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s Codex—which was once pitched as a coding agent for developers and is now being framed as a more general-purpose agent for knowledge workers—is having a moment, as OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser put it on Tuesday. As I wrote about in this story from Tuesday, lots of developers are making the switch from Anthropic’s more popular Claude Code tool to Codex, as OpenAI has made its models and... Read more ›
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Employee engagement and satisfaction surveys sound simple: Ask your workers about their experience, and then see what they have to say. But in practice, these survey cycles often turn into months-long marathons, with HR teams sometimes taking weeks to agree on the right questions and then manually combing through messy, unstructured data after the results come in. By using Gemini as both a brainstorming partner and a data assistant, HR... Read more ›
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Google’s parent company Alphabet said on Wednesday that it was increasing the size of its equity raise to $84.75 billion from $80 billion. The bulk of the money—Google’s first time selling new stock since 2005—is earmarked for spending on AI infrastructure and compute, highlighting the cost of ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is expanding its AI agent offerings for businesses as part of its broader push to monetize AI products and services. At its Conversations business messaging conference on Wednesday, Meta announced it is bringing Meta Business Agent to Instagram and launching the Meta Business ... Read more ›
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Alphabet’s plan to sell $80 billion worth of shares, billed as a way to pay for AI infrastructure and compute, is surprising enough, given the capital raise’s size and the fact that the company last raised equity 21 years ago, when Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” was the song of the summer. But there’s another eye-catching detail in the offering’s fine print that reflects an underappreciated reality of big tech’s AI... Read more ›
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