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I checked out LTK’s splashy event for advertisers in New York this week. The gathering, planned to coincide with upfronts held by big media companies, highlighted the creator marketing startup’s ambitions to command serious ad dollars.LTK, founded in 2011 and last valued at $2 billion, is one of the more established creator marketing companies. It started out providing affiliate links, which creators add to their posts to collect a cut of sales for products they promote, and generates revenue by taking a sl
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For the past two years, Donald Trump and the Republican Party could reasonably claim to have broad support for their anti-immigrant agenda. The public wanted less immigration, Trump promised to provide it, and much of the public trusted him to act. But things look a lot different now that he’s actually implementing that agenda. After […] Read more ›
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Aachen-based TechVision Fund (TVF) II announced its closing with a fund volume exceeding €50 million to invest from the pre-Seed and Seed stages in promising tech startups, specifically those based in the Rhineland/NRW region as well as the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (Netherlands/Belgium). TVF II will run until 2035 and is the fourth generation of venture capital ... Read more ›
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Democrats want you to know that President Donald Trump definitely might be protecting a cabal of child abusers. Or so the party’s recent messaging suggests. For years, extremely online conservatives have been agitating for the release of the “Epstein Files” — a hypothetical trove of confidential documents that reveal the powerful co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein, […] Read more ›
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A Russian lawmaker who regulates the IT industry said WhatsApp should prepare to stop offering its services in the country. Anton Gorelkin, the deputy head of the lower house of parliament's IT committee, said that it's very likely that WhatsApp will be placed on a list of restricted software, as Reuters reports. WhatsApp owner Meta is designated as an extremist organisation in Russia, which has banned Facebook and Instagram since... Read more ›
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Apple today announced it will be opening a new store at the Touchwood Solihull shopping center in Solihull, a town near Birmingham in England. Image Credit: Basic Apple Guy Apple's existing store in the mall will be permanently closing on Thursday, July 24, at 6 p.m. local time, according to the company. The new store replacing it will hold its grand opening on Saturday, July 26 at 9 a.m. local... Read more ›
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Plus, Leonardo DiCaprio is developing a live-action Captain Planet series at Netflix. Read more ›
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Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the Democratic FTC Commissioners President Trump had fired back in March, said she looks forward to getting back to work. US District Judge Loren AliKhan has just ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal effect" and that she was still a "rightful member" of the commission. The judge explained that the firings violated protections that prevent a president from unilaterally... Read more ›
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Nothing said: be the non-Apple, bra-shaped carrying case you want to see in the world. Read more ›
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When Nintendo first announced the Switch 2's slate of launch titles, people were very quick to cry foul about how few original, exclusive games the company had lined up for its latest console. There were ports from other systems and updated versions of original Switch games. But Mario Kart World was the Switch 2's only […] Read more ›
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The part that powers auto-rotate on your phone also warns you of earthquakes surprisingly well. Read more ›
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I can't open LinkedIn without seeing a new post from a Microsoft employee who lost their job in the company's latest round of layoffs. Around 15,000 jobs have been eliminated at Microsoft over the past couple months - the biggest cuts at the company in more than a decade. I've spoken to more than a […] Read more ›
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A top economist has warned that the AI bubble could be more over-inflated than the dot-com bubble, suggesting that all of the AI companies are even more overvalued than their techy counterparts from 25 years ago. Read more ›
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Apple is expected to hold its annual iPhone announcement event during the week of September 8, 2025, with September 9 or 10 emerging as the most likely dates. Like the iPhone 16 series, this year's lineup is expected to include four models – but with a twist. The Plus device is being replaced with an all-new ultra-thin model, while the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are set... Read more ›
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Fitbit users are having issues – here's all the latest info from users online, Fitbit itself and potential fixes. Read more ›
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Would you like Siri more if it had a face? Ever since Elon Musk added a weird anime girlfriend to Grok, I've been wondering if there's a not-so-distant future where all of our AI assistants are much more clearly personified. Grok makes it feel deeply uncomfortable, but I'm not so sure it has to be […] Read more ›
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Large language models are completely overhauling how consumers access information. Read more ›
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The main Department of Justice building, across from the National Archives in Washington, was the kind of brooding edifice Dylan Field had walked through a lot in 2023 as he tried to convince governments around the world to let him sell Figma, the design software startup that had been his life, to Adobe for $20 billion. He made a final attempt to win over the Justice Department in a December... Read more ›
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When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the course of the interview, I heard something more interesting emerge: two clear new doctrines that are guiding Zuckerberg... Read more ›
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OpenAI is continuing its push into the application layer with ChatGPT “agents.” As we scooped this week, it plans new features that will allow users to create and edit spreadsheets and presentations, generate reports and automate tasks on their browsers—all through ChatGPT.There was one interesting detail in that news that you might have missed. Instead of leveraging a computer-using agent that would open and click around in a PowerPoint or... Read more ›
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As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit presentations and spreadsheets that are compatible with PowerPoint and Excel directly in the chatbot without using the Microsoft apps themselves, according to a person who... Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence boom is already visibly reshaping the cloud wars. For instance, Amazon Web Services looked like an insurmountable front-runner just a few years ago, but Google has made gains among AI developers thanks to its ability to serve some models at a much lower price, my colleague Kevin reported yesterday.More broadly, we’re starting to see evidence that the cloud providers are all racing to make small improvements to... Read more ›
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Meta will have “the largest compute fleet of any company,” Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told me in an interview first aired on The Information’s TITV Tuesday. “And focusing on that on being powered by a small and talent-dense team, I think we’re gonna have by far the most compute per ... Read more ›
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As Anthropic’s sale of artificial intelligence has surged, the company has told investors some of its profit-related metrics are improving even as it burns a tremendous amount of cash. That financial performance has prompted some investors to indicate interest in funding Anthropic at a valuation of more than $100 billion if the company decides to pursue a deal, compared to a $58 billion valuation in a financing announced four months... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s main column about Grok 4, we wanted to share four things we learned from the craziness on Friday, when Google snatched the CEO and technology behind Windsurf, a competitor to Cursor that OpenAI had agreed to buy for $3 billion just two months ago. Read more ›
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Watching last week’s Grok 4 release, one statistic stood out to us. XAI said it spent 10 times as much computational power on reinforcement learning for Grok 4 as it laid out for Grok 3.RL is a common AI development technique that rewards a model for accomplishing certain goals and penalizes it for other behaviors. The xAI disclosure provided further evidence of how AI labs are increasingly improving their models... Read more ›
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OpenAI has ended discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO and some staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The talks between OpenAI to buy the startup for $3 billion ended in recent days after Windsurf’s team raised concerns over how the coding assistant would fit into the OpenAI and Microsoft agreement, which requires OpenAI... Read more ›
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