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Chime is finally going public. The San Francisco-based digital banking startup filed plans on Monday to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CHYM, aiming for a valuation of up to $11.2 billion on a fully diluted basis. Chime ...
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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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So far the most Meta has to show for it is a glitchy chatbot, a growing chorus of irritated users, and frustrated shareholders who would like to have something show for the billions of dollars spent on the project. 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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Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region. 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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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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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced plans to investigate both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for offering AI chatbots that can claim to be health tools, and potentially misusing data collected from underage users. Paxton says that AI chatbots from either platform "can present themselves as professional therapeutic tools," to the point of lying about their qualifications. That behavior that can leave younger users vulnerable to misleading and inaccurate... Read more ›
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A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age, but skeptics still aren't convinced. Read more ›
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Apple is expected to delay the launch of its base iPhone 18 model until spring 2027, marking a major shift in the company's long-established release cycle, according to South Korea's ETNews. The report claims that Apple has informed some of its suppliers that the iPhone 18 will not be part of the September 2026 iPhone lineup. Instead, the company will unveil only higher-end models in the fall of that year,... Read more ›
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Goodbye MSBNC, and hello “MS NOW.” In an announcement that has triggered widespread befuddlement and mockery, the progressive cable news network is getting rebranded. The new name isn’t meant to call to mind Microsoft or the honorific “Ms.” Instead, in the style of congressional bill-naming, MS NOW is purportedly an acronym for the following mouthful: […] Read more ›
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Texas attorney-general joins Senate in investigating Meta’s practices around minors using its technology 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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Find out how to watch the Made by Google livestream event on Wednesday, Aug. 20. We expect to see the official unveiling of the Pixel 10 series. Read more ›
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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling-up in September with the addition of RTX 5080 GPUs, which will allow for 5K streaming at up to 120fps (or 1080p/320fps for the truly frame-hungry). While you'll need to be on the $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate tier to use RTX 5080 streaming servers, NVIDIA at least isn't raising that tier's price. Subscribers at that level will still receive 100 hours of monthly... Read more ›
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Trump's proposal to narrow eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness is now open for public comment. Read more ›
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Another senior figure is walking away from Elon Musk’s AI empire. Igor Babuschkin, one of the original co-founders of Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, announced Wednesday that he’s stepping down to start an investment firm focused on AI safety. The ... Read more ›
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The U.S. is taking its AI chip export crackdown to a new level — hiding location trackers inside select shipments to catch them before they slip into China’s hands. Two people with direct knowledge of the tactic told Reuters the ... Read more ›
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Rumble, the video platform best known for hosting Donald Trump’s Truth Social, is sizing up a major play in the AI infrastructure space. The company is weighing a $1.17 billion acquisition of Germany’s Northern Data, a move that would give ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk is taking his feud with Apple to a new front — the courtroom. On Monday, the billionaire threatened legal action against the tech giant, accusing it of favoring OpenAI’s ChatGPT and sidelining his own Grok chatbot in the ... Read more ›
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Speciale Invest is betting $69 million on India’s next wave of deep-tech startups. The Chennai-based venture capital firm will spread the investment over the next four years, backing 18 to 20 startups through 2029. Initial tickets will range from 70 ... Read more ›
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Beijing is tightening the screws on foreign chipmakers again, this time taking aim at Nvidia’s H20, the most advanced AI chip the U.S. company is currently allowed to sell in China. According to Bloomberg, Chinese regulators have told local tech ... Read more ›
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GoodShip has landed $25 million in Series B funding, giving the freight tech startup more fuel to challenge an industry still running on spreadsheets. The round was led by Greenfield Partners, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Ironspring Ventures, Chicago Ventures, and ... Read more ›
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Perplexity AI shocked the tech world on Tuesday with a $34.5 billion offer to buy Google’s Chrome browser — a move already backed by investors, despite being nearly double the company’s own valuation. The unsolicited bid, confirmed Tuesday by CNBC, ... Read more ›
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It’s Tuesday, August 12, 2025, and we’re back with a packed edition spotlighting 15 startup and tech funding stories from the U.S. and around the globe. From AI-powered freight management to breakthrough neurotherapies and rare earth magnet manufacturing, today’s rounds ... Read more ›
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