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Misery loves company, as they say. Friday’s announcement that two of the three biggest cable-broadband firms, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, are combining is a logical next step in the consolidation of a stagnant but still significant industry. Charter, whose biggest shareholder is controlled by aging cable magnate John Malone, is buying Cox Communications for $34.5 billion in cash, stock and assumption of debt. The resulting company, which will take the Cox name, will be by far the biggest.
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OpenAI might be a poster-child of the AI industry, but as the hype starts to cool and other major players slow their advances, questions arise about where profitability might be found in this new AI revolution. Read more ›
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Walmart said it managed to avoid some of the price hikes it expected last quarter, but its costs continue to increase each week. Read more ›
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A group of five New York judges struck down the fines issued by the trial court, finding it excessive — but couldn't agree on much else. Read more ›
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As the US birth rate continues to decline, employers, universities, and the entire economy is already scrambling to bridge the gap. Read more ›
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The Trump administration has ruled out deploying US troops on the ground in Ukraine, but officials suggest Washington could provide air support. Read more ›
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The monthly price of Apple TV+ is increasing to $12.99 per month in the U.S., according to 9to5Mac's Benjamin Mayo. Apple TV+ cost just $4.99 per month in the U.S. when it launched in 2019, but the price has now increased three times. The price went up to $6.99 per month in 2022, and then to $9.99 per month in 2023, and now the service costs $12.99 per month. The... Read more ›
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As NASA grapples with major proposed budget cuts and losing some of its most brilliant minds, America’s willingness to look outward is also at risk. Read more ›
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The Redmi Note 15 series is now official in China, and the two Pro models arrive with several improvements over their predecessors in key areas, including the display, chipset, and battery capacity. Redmi Note 15 Pro/Pro+ Note 15 Pro and Note 15 Pro+ share the same 6.83-inch AMOLED display with 1,280 x 2,772 px resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and 3,200 nits peak local brightness. The panel offers 12-bit color... Read more ›
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Hank Green's "Focus Friend" asks users to put down their phone for 15 minutes so their bean friend has time to knit. I decided to give it a try. Read more ›
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Apple TV+'s monthly price is rising 30%. The streamer is cheaper than its ad-free peers, but YouTube and other free options have been taking share. Read more ›
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Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. Read more ›
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Dawn of War 4 is back, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. You can read my full thoughts on actually playing it - or really, playing the one available skirmish about six times over and over - in our big Dawn of War 4 preview, but alongside that hands-on time we also had a virtual sit-down with DoW 4's brand new development team. Read more Read more ›
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The U.S. is drifting away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal? Read more ›
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Earlier this month, a fundraiser for nonprofits that fight to end factory farming went a little viral — at least in one corner of the internet. Dwarkesh Patel, the influential tech podcaster, announced on his show that if his listeners donated a collective $250,000 to FarmKind, an organization that distributes money to anti-factory farming charities, […] Read more ›
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Chinese smartphone maker Vivo on Thursday unveiled its first mixed reality headset, the "Vivo Vision," and the photocopiers in Dongguan appear to have been working overtime. The device "launched" as an in-store experience across mainland China today, featuring design elements that clearly ape Apple's Vision Pro. It's got a curved glass front visor, downward-pointing cameras, removable fabric light seals in four sizes, eight foam padding options, a knitted rear strap,... Read more ›
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The Information
Last year, the cost for businesses to purchase state-of-the-art artificial intelligence was plummeting. Top AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google had slashed the price of their flagship AI models by more than 90% compared to prior years, while DeepSeek and other open-source developers were releasing free yet powerful models. Google CEO Sundar Pichai predicted AI would soon be “like air, too cheap to meter.” It hasn’t turned out... Read more ›
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Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million in a fundraise co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a person with... Read more ›
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The Trump family has partnered with a father-son duo with a history of run-ins with financial regulators for a deal to sell $1.5 billion of its crypto tokens. A biotech turned crypto company called Alt5 Sigma will sell $1.5 billion of stock and use the money to buy the crypto token created by World Liberty Financial, founded by Donald Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric. Read more ›
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In the fast-paced AI wars, time is precious. So when Google last month said it would pay Windsurf $2.4 billion to license the prominent AI startup’s technology and hire some of its employees, the search giant hurried to add Windsurf’s researchers and engineers to its ranks. Within a day, Google had onboarded most of the Windsurf staff it had hired—but not all of them. Some of them were left in... Read more ›
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The Federal Reserve said Friday it will end its program that scrutinized fintech and crypto activities by banks, months after it stopped requiring banks to obtain advanced permission before engaging in crypto businesses. The Fed said it has strengthened its understanding of these activities and ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has launched a special subscription tier for Indian users for 399 rupees ($4.60) a month, confirming The Information’s earlier reporting. The new tier, called ChatGPT Go, gives Indian users higher message limits, image generations, uploads and memory, OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin ... Read more ›
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When Nvidia wanted to show off software for developing artificial intelligence at its flagship customer conference in March, it brought out a Star Wars–inspired robot that bobbed its head as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talked to it. “Stand right here,” said Huang, pointing to his side, and the knee-high robot waddled to the spot, receiving cheers and applause from the audience. What Huang didn’t say was that “a puppeteer behind... Read more ›
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The debate around whether it’s better to be an AI-powered app that millions of people use, like Cursor, or an AI model like Claude that powers such apps is getting interesting.While Cursor and other customers of AI models are hurting as OpenAI and Anthropic hold model prices steady rather than cutting them—as they have been doing for the past couple of years (see my colleague Aaron’s story this morning), the... Read more ›
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It didn’t take long for David Ellison, the fresh-faced millennial owner and CEO of Paramount Skydance, to make a statement. Just five days after the merger between Paramount and Skydance closed, the scion of Oracle’s Larry Ellison reached into his deep pockets to acquire seven years of broadcast rights to UFC mixed-martial arts matches for $7.7 billion. With a single pen stroke, the sports rights deal accomplished two significant feats... Read more ›
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Signs that OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms are generating ever-increasing revenues are getting attention—from news publishers who want to get their piece of the action. Publishers that have struck deals to license their content to AI firms for training large language models are now discussing internally—and in at least one case, with AI firms—whether they can get paid based on how often AI businesses use their content in answers... Read more ›
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