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Three years ago, Elon Musk approached Apple with an eleventh-hour offer.
Musk had heard that Apple was about to announce a feature for the upcoming iPhone 14 in partnership with satellite firm Globalstar that would allow iPhones to send text messages to emergency services in areas without cellular reception. He wanted Apple to instead use satellite internet service from Starlink, a Globalstar rival operated by Muskās rocket company, SpaceX.
His pitch: SpaceX would agree to exclusively provide satellite co
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The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed by Google. For context, parameters are a measure of how a model understands and responds to queries. More parameters generally means more capable, though training and architecture are also factors. Bloomberg... Read more āŗ
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Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdaniās victory. Read more āŗ
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The Supreme Courtās Wednesday morning argument on President Donald Trumpās ever-shifting tariffs went better for him than the 2025 elections, but only slightly so. At least two of the Courtās Republicans ā Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett ā appeared very likely to join the three Democratic justices in striking down those tariffs, and [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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New NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani targeted Donald Trump in his victory speech, pledging to fight corruption and support unions. Read more āŗ
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When did we all start ignoring Nintendo? Was it the Wii era? Because that's the moment Nintendo stepped away. That's when Nintendo decided to leave the raw-power console fight to PlayStation and Xbox, and let them slug it out while it did something else. Nintendo decided to focus on innovation and creativity and rethink the idea of the console, the Wii being the result. I remember how it was greeted... Read more āŗ
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With the help of complete CPU domination in the consumer/gaming marketplace thanks to chips such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, AMD has achieved a record breaking $2.8 billion in client revenue. Read more āŗ
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Zohran Mamdani beat former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to win the race. Read his full acceptance speech. Read more āŗ
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Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, 34, is projected to defeat Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor. Read more āŗ
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CEO criticises western ācynicismā while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres Read more āŗ
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A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed skepticism about President Donald Trump claiming so much power from a Carter-era law. Read more āŗ
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If youāve ever watched a synth video on YouTube, thereās a decent chance youāve seen the Arturia KeyStep at some point. The affordable keyboard and controller has been a steady presence since its release in January of 2016, especially in DAWless circles. Now Arturia is finally releasing a proper successor, the KeyStep mk2, and on [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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In addition to affordability, New York Cityās mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPDās sweeping mass surveillance operations. Read more āŗ
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The sequel to Netflix's biggest film of all time is aiming at a 2029 release. Read more āŗ
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Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth. Read more āŗ
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Since YouTube TV's Disney blackout started, some sports fans have been getting their fix on Sling TV, Fubo, and others, Apptopia data shows. Read more āŗ
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"Empire of Storms" and "Tower of Dawn" take place concurrently in Sarah J. Maas' "Throne of Glass" series, so they can be read as one massive book. Read more āŗ
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Zohran Mamdani, currently a state assemblyman, is set to get a large raise when he takes office as mayor of New York City. Read more āŗ
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Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn't come from his campaign, or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It's also come from fans. Read more āŗ
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Norwayās sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Teslaās proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was āconcerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.ā The ... Read more āŗ
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Before we get to todayās column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute providers away from Microsoft. Monday morning, the ChatGPT maker announced that it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services. OpenAI will immediately start using compute from AWS, with the goal to deploy all capacity before the end of next year, with the option to use even more compute into... Read more āŗ
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About half of subscribers to The Information who responded to our latest survey said they bought or sold cryptocurrency, crypto exchange-traded funds or crypto treasury stocks in the past three months. Notably, more of our readers are buying than selling: 47% of all respondents said they bought crypto or something related in the past three months, while just 25% said they sold. The surveyās findings are based onĀ 528 responses. Read more āŗ
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Stock market investors fell in love with crypto this year, setting off a big rally in public markets. Now the buying frenzy has rebounded back to privately held companies like crypto exchange Kraken and payments firm Ripple, whose valuations have soared. Kraken, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, is raising money at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter, after getting $500 million in new... Read more āŗ
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OpenAIās revenue could reach $100 billion in 2027, Sam Altman said on a podcast published Friday with Altimeter Capital and OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner. Altman said the ChatGPT maker was already ādoing well more revenue,ā than $13 billion, an apparent reference to its annualized pace, which ... Read more āŗ
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One August morning, Kaarage woke up and took the train from the Japanese countryside into the city. She went to a restaurant and enjoyed a lunch of vegetables and soup, as well as an iced coffee. Afterward, she studied a musical score on her iPad, then went home to relax. Kaarage is not a person: SheāsĀ an internet-belovedĀ Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casioāyes, Casioāwho shares a charming, bucolic... Read more āŗ
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:ā¢ The Big Read: Inside Benchmarkās high-stakes pressure testĀ ā¢ Artificial Intelligence: The VCs who turned vibe code into whimsical passion projectsā¢ Artificial Intelligence: Venerable Casioās surprise hit? An AI robopetĀ ā¢ WTF: Behind the scenes at our summit for the most powerful and influential women in tech, media and financeĀ ā¢ The Arena:Ā WNBA owner Clara Wu Tsai has a $1 billion planā¢ Plus, our... Read more āŗ
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France threatened to ban Shein from selling products in the country after a consumer protection regulator said in a statement it had discovered the fast-fashion giant was selling sex dolls āwith a childlike appearance.ā Franceās economic minister Roland Lescure said Monday that the government ... Read more āŗ
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Travel software firm Navan, which weathered a pandemic, name change and government shutdown on its path to an initial public offering, had a disappointing start as a public company. Shares fell 20% on the first day. Its earliest investors still made big gains on paper though. Investor Oren Zeev and his affiliated funds, which invested $150 million starting with Navanās seed round in 2015, had about a $1 billion stake... Read more āŗ
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In less than a year, AI-assisted coding has become a fixation within Silicon Valley, which sees the companies building such products as some of the most lucrative startups in tech. While tools like Cursor and Anthropicās Claude Code canāt transform techno novices into app-building wizards overnight, they do make coding fasterāand easier for people who have some knowledge of coding but donāt have the same skill as a veteran engineer.... Read more āŗ
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