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Another year, another viral tweet argues against “learning to code.” The latest one comes with cherry-picked data implying that art history majors outperform computer scientists in labor markets. Yet the underlying data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York prove the opposite. Art history grads have low unemployment—just 3%—because they are actually underemployed: 47% work in low-wage jobs that require no college degree and earn almost half the median wage of computer scientists. Computer science grads,
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Business leaders, including Bill Ackman and Andrew Yang, have congratulated Zohran Mamdani on his mayoral win. Read more ›
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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 ›
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Socialists just seized the commanding heights of New York City. On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani — a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — won the mayoralty of America’s largest municipality. Mamdani’s election constitutes a triumph for America’s long-suffering socialist movement — possibly, the most significant in its history. His victory may […] Read more ›
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In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. Read more ›
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Today, Sony will officially push out one of the biggest PS Portal updates the peculiar little handheld has received since it was first released back in November 2023. Read more Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said he will withhold November food stamps. This comes a day after the administration said it will pay partial benefits. Read more ›
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Brazil is set to announce Thursday the establishment of a multibillion-dollar fund designed to pay countries to keep their tropical forests standing. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility would deliver $4 billion per year to as many as 74 countries that maintain their forest cover. The fund requires $25 billion from governments and philanthropies to begin operations. Private investors would contribute the remaining $100 billion. Brazil has committed $1 billion. Countries... Read more ›
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Alexei Zhuravlev also said Russia isn't restricted from sending offensive weapons, such as the Oreshnik ballistic missile, to Venezuela. Read more ›
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With software engineers adopting AI faster than other industries, some workers say they've experienced reduced everyday interactions with their peers. Read more ›
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When Kaileya McGhee and her fiancé were at a career crossroads, her parents transformed their garage into an apartment to help ease the transition. Read more ›
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Apple on Tuesday released the first beta of iOS 26.2 to developers, and it appears that the software will allow users in Japan to install alternative app marketplaces on their devices when it is released to the public in December. According to a post shared on X by @Tzzlala, iPhones running the beta in Japan are able to install alternative app stores like AltStore PAL and Epic Games, and download... Read more ›
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Zohran Mamdani owes his win as New York City mayor substantially to his internet presence. Mamdani - as numerous writers have outlined - is good on social video. He picked a message, stuck to it, and adapted that platform to snappy soundbites across multiple mediums. But Mamdani's best trait as an online communicator wasn't knowing […] Read more ›
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After two years of dating long-distance, I moved abroad to be with my boyfriend. We broke up after a few months, but I decided to stay in Turkey. Read more ›
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Activate CEO Michael J. Wolf's annual slide deck examines the future direction of AI search and spatial computing and much more. Read more ›
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Nothing is the most recent entrant in the US smartphone market, but another brand has just landed. Read more ›
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was “concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.” The ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s 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 ›
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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 survey’s findings are based on 528 responses. Read more ›
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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 ›
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OpenAI’s 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 “doing well more revenue,” than $13 billion, an apparent reference to its annualized pace, which ... Read more ›
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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: She’s an internet-beloved Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casio—yes, Casio—who shares a charming, bucolic... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Benchmark’s high-stakes pressure test • Artificial Intelligence: The VCs who turned vibe code into whimsical passion projects• Artificial Intelligence: Venerable Casio’s surprise hit? An AI robopet • WTF: Behind the scenes at our summit for the most powerful and influential women in tech, media and finance • The Arena: WNBA owner Clara Wu Tsai has a $1 billion plan• Plus, our... Read more ›
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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 “with a childlike appearance.” France’s economic minister Roland Lescure said Monday that the government ... Read more ›
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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 Navan’s seed round in 2015, had about a $1 billion stake... Read more ›
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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 Anthropic’s Claude Code can’t transform techno novices into app-building wizards overnight, they do make coding faster—and easier for people who have some knowledge of coding but don’t have the same skill as a veteran engineer.... Read more ›
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