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Elon Musk on Sunday announced plans for an encrypted messaging platform called XChat that will feature vanishing messages and the ability to make audio and video calls without a phone number. The first version will be available this week on his social media platform X “if there are no ...
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A missile of such power and range could allow Ukraine to threaten military production hubs far within Russia, such as its factories in the Urals. Read more ›
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MSNBC is rebranding to "MS NOW" and is getting a new logo. Employees are chattering about what the rebrand signals for the cable TV network's future. Read more ›
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Kennedy Liu helped set up his American company's R&D center in Shenzhen and knew from the start it had to run more like a Chinese company. Read more ›
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"It was clear that if we didn't do it, the world was gonna be mostly built on Chinese open source models," Altman said. 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: A short-notice meeting at the White House today brought President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and seven other European leaders together to discuss the […] Read more ›
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A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein. Read more ›
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Whether you’re looking to upgrade your internet or get the latest phone, we’ve got you covered with our selection of AT&T coupons and deals. Read more ›
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Move protects Americans’ civil liberties, Trump’s director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells FT Read more ›
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SoftBank will invest $2 billion in Intel at $23 per share, a move seen as both a vote of confidence in Intel’s U.S. chipmaking comeback and a strategic bet on an undervalued semiconductor maker. Read more ›
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The Trump administration is considering taking a 10% stake in Intel by converting $10.9B in Chips Act grants into equity, a move that would make the U.S. government Intel’s largest shareholder and mark a major shift in how federal chip funding is deployed. Read more ›
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Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region. Read more ›
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Apple today released the fourth public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, allowing the public to test the updates ahead of their September launch. The fourth public betas come a week after the third public betas, and the updates correspond with the seventh developer betas that were released earlier today. Beta testers that have registered on Apple's website can download the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates... Read more ›
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The UK government has agreed to withdraw its order requiring Apple to create backdoor access to encrypted iCloud data following intervention from the Trump administration. Vice President JD Vance negotiated the agreement during his recent UK holiday after the January order issued under the UK Investigatory Powers Act prompted Apple to pull its iCloud Advanced Data Protection service from Britain in February. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the... Read more ›
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Starbucks salaried employees, such as store managers, are set to get a 2% raise in 2025 amid the company's turnaround plan. Read more ›
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The move follows a confidential SEC submission earlier this month and comes amid a surge of digital asset firms tapping the equity markets. Read more ›
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Here's what you need to do if you're still using the Amazon Appstore on your Android devices. Read more ›
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Just weeks after Nvidia reached a deal with President Trump allowing it to sell AI chips in China, the chipmaker has hit a new hurdle—Chinese authorities. China’s internet regulator in the past two weeks ordered local tech companies including ByteDance, Alibaba Group, and Tencent Holdings to suspend their purchases of Nvidia chips, citing data security concerns with the chips, according to three people briefed on the matter. Read more ›
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Venture investors are discussing ploughing as much as $1 billion into Texas-based energy startup Base Power at a $4 billion valuation, or about four times its valuation in April, according to a person with knowledge of the investment talks. The startup, co-founded in 2023 by Zach Dell, a former Thrive Capital investor and son of PC mogul Michael Dell, generates revenue by managing a fleet of home backup batteries and... Read more ›
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Bullish, the crypto exchange operator and owner of news outlet CoinDesk, raised $1.1 billion in an upsized initial public offering. The Peter Thiel-backed firm said it is selling 30 million shares in its IPO at $37 per share, higher than the earlier target range of $32 to $33 per ... Read more ›
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We’re in a new era of government intervention in corporate America. The latest example is Bloomberg’s report on Thursday that the Trump administration was in talks to “take a stake” in Intel. Just on Monday, President Donald Trump said he and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had agreed that Nvidia would pay the government 15% of whatever revenues it generates from the sale of AI chips to China, in exchange for... Read more ›
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Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. The new funding could nearly triple Vercel’s private valuation from a financing in May last year and follows a recent growth... Read more ›
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For all the talk about the rise of low-cost or open-source AI models, enterprises are still gravitating to brand-name models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. That’s prompting database providers like Snowflake, Databricks and Oracle to strike deals allowing database customers to use the brand-name AI to build chatbots and search tools that can analyze each customers’ proprietary data. In the latest example, Oracle and Google announced an agreement this morning... 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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A group of more than 80 chief executive officers at crypto and fintech firms signed a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to block U.S. banks, such as JPMorgan Chase, from charging fees for access to customer data, which could threaten the business model of fintech firms. The CEOs at ... Read more ›
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Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the prowl for smaller browsers it could more easily bite off. Since the end of last year, executives at the three-year-old startup have communicated with leaders... Read more ›
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SAP is in the midst of an artificial intelligence–fueled overhaul. The 53-year-old German enterprise software giant has undertaken a massive reorganization over the past year and a half, cutting 8,000 jobs since the start of 2024 as it aims to use AI for cost savings while hiring in new areas focused on selling enterprise AI applications. Today we’re publishing an org chart identifying more than 30 of the top executives... Read more ›
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