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ByteDance is targeting revenue growth of about 20% this year, which could help it catch up to rival Meta Platforms, according to Bloomberg. The TikTok parent company expects revenue to rise to about $186 billion in 2025, up from $155 billion last year, Bloomberg reported. Meta expects about $187 ...
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An in-person Live Translation feature could soon be available on the AirPods, according to imagery found in iOS 26 beta 6. There's a picture of the AirPods with Hello in several different languages, along with a suggestion that the feature will be activated with a double press. The file itself is named "Translate," which certainly seems to imply that there will be a gesture to activate a Live Translation option.... Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump announced today that he will federalize police in Washington, DC, and deploy DC National Guard troops onto city streets. Trump’s declaration brings DC’s […] Read more ›
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Last week, President Donald Trump called Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan "highly CONFLICTED" on Truth Social. On Monday, he posted calling Tan a "success." Read more ›
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The account for xAI's chatbot was temporarily suspended from X, with a NSFW video posted on the timeline once it was back up. Read more ›
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Three Gen Z friends who work in finance said buying with friends makes homeownership attainable for young people. They bought a condo in Tampa, Florida. Read more ›
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Apple is continuing to tweak the way that the Liquid Glass design looks ahead of the iOS 26 launch, and the latest beta makes a change to the Lock Screen. The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through. Beta 6 on left, beta 5 on right The clock also has more of a 3D, floating look, which is in line... Read more ›
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Video footage shows the South China Sea chase and the aftermath, including "substantial damage" to the Chinese Coast Guard ship, Manila said. Read more ›
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Donald Trump is letting Nvidia and AMD sell some chips to China — but only if they pay a 15% tax. That's the opposite of Trump's tariff push. Read more ›
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There's just about a month to go until Apple unveils new iPhones at its September event, and that means time is running out for Apple to perfect iOS 26. We've reached a weekly beta update cadence, and Apple seeded iOS 26 beta 6 to developers today. There are changes to Liquid Glass, tweaks to navigation, new ringtones, and more. Ringtones There are now several variants of the Reflection ringtone, including... Read more ›
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Lip-Bu Tan to offer ‘suggestions’ on how government can work with group as it struggles with chip manufacturing Read more ›
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A trilogy remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched by BioWare to EA, but the publisher is "against remasters" and "basically seem to be against free money". Read more Read more ›
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A Zotac RTX 5090 caught fire during a gaming session, damaging not only the GPU, but also the motherboard, SSD, and cooler. Likely caused by a MOSFET or VRM phase failure on the memory power rail, this marks yet another 5090 going down in flames in the long list of 40 and 50-series GPUs from the Fire Nation. Read more ›
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Liquid Glass is a huge new change coming to iOS 26. (Apple) In just over a month, we'll finally get to download the official iOS 26 on our iPhones. Available now is the iOS 26 developer beta 6 (for developers only), and the public beta which you can download and install now. CEO Tim Cook recently said it's (along with the other current beta operating systems) "by far the most... Read more ›
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US president confirms he negotiated ‘a little deal’ with chipmaker’s chief Jensen Huang Read more ›
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AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans. The Yahoo-owned company announced the shutdown on its support website, stating: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet." The termination includes the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, both of which were optimized for older operating... Read more ›
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Ex-Intel chief Craig Barrett warns the US could lose its only advanced chip foundry without urgent $40B funding from major customers like Apple and Nvidia, pushing for High-NA EUV, 14A development, and tariffs on imports. Read more ›
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GitHub, one of the most used code repositories in the world, is being folded into Microsoft following the departure of longtime CEO Thomas Dohmke. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 but remained largely independent until today. Read more ›
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The NextGen Acela trains will run with a top speed of 160 mph, out-speeding the current Acela fleet by 10 mph. Read more ›
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Consumers could be paying for 67% of the cost of tariffs by October — ahead of the holiday shopping season. Read more ›
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OpenAI unveiled its new flagship AI model, GPT-5, on Thursday. And with the launch, OpenAI seems to be moving more towards offering an entire AI system to its customers versus giving them the choice between models. The company said during a live-streamed presentation that it would be withdrawing user access to its older models, meaning that customers won’t be able to choose between models depending on how much they want... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s X is using parent company xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tools to handle more of the social media site’s advertising business, Musk and other xAI executives said Wednesday. X is using Grok to improve targeting based on user data, Musk and xAI’s head of ads engineering Roman ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier this year. In June, the social media giant hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as its chief AI officer and agreed to invest $14.3 billion... Read more ›
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Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team as its leader leaves the company, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The team had been building supercomputers powered by in-house chips that help train its vehicles’ self-driving software. Tesla plans to rely more heavily on chips from companies ... Read more ›
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Apple’s next iPhone unveiling is a month away, but OpenAI may have just sucked all the new tech product excitement out of the room with today’s GPT-5 unveiling. The livestream, featuring a parade of staffers highlighting the new flagship AI model’s range of impressive capabilities, was eerily reminiscent of an Apple iPhone event—slickly produced and tightly scripted. OpenAI’s speakers even used classic Apple phrases such as “We can’t wait for... Read more ›
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Cracks are beginning to show in the booming market for stocks of companies—like Michael Saylor’s Strategy—that do little other than hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. These stocks became a wildly popular way for investors to speculate on bitcoin and recently on more exotic cryptocurrencies. Valuations for Strategy, and for others including bitcoin holder Semler Scientific and solana holder Upexi, have come down a bit, while companies that own more speculative tokens... Read more ›
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In the M&A industry, bankers’ most important asset has historically been their rolodex. But the proliferation of AI chatbots appears to be changing that.When the boards of companies look to sell the business, they turn to M&A advisors to scope out suitable buyers. In the past, junior bankers assembling lists of potential buyers would have to spend hours researching and consolidating information, before checking in with senior bankers whose institutional... Read more ›
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Last Friday, the day after Figma went public with a 250% pop, former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan tweeted that Figma’s success was “a great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought by existing giants, can generate enormous value.” Good point. But for every Figma, there’s a Snap, whose CEO Evan Spiegel famously turned down a $6 billion buyout offer from Facebook, the... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, we wrote about investors’ growing interest in startups building AI-powered voice agents for various industries, from hospitality to construction.If you want a sign of just how interested investors are, look no further than EliseAI, which is building AI for the property management and healthcare industries, including voice agents that can answer calls from residents and patients. The startup has raised a $200 million round at around a... Read more ›
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Investors have embraced vibe coding as the next big thing in artificial intelligence. They are pouring cash into fast-growing companies offering coding assistants that can speed the work of software engineers—or potentially replace them. That optimism may be shortsighted. The companies that make AI models, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are developing their own coding assistants, creating serious competition. Most coding assistant startups rely on these same AI giants to... Read more ›
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