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A recent delivery dealmaking frenzy in Europe has kicked off a race between DoorDash, Uber and investment firm Prosus, as the three firms aim to grab more business in the already fiercely competitive market.
Some of that has been playing out publicly, with a series of rapid-fire announcements. But behind the scenes, U.S. delivery archrivals DoorDash and Uber have also been fighting over some of the same deals. DoorDash made overtures to Trendyol Go, a Turkish delivery service Uber wound up agreeing to buy.
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The episode, titled "Sermon on the Mount," poked fun at President Donald Trump, CBS, and its parent company, Paramount. Read more ›
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It sounds like only Trump voters would be eligible for Hawley's theoretical rebate. Read more ›
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AI has changed the job landscape in some ways, but I don't think it's the reason why the industry is experiencing more layoffs. Read more ›
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It's always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell - the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right […] Read more ›
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Microsoft’s stock price has risen so much today that it has passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to be valued at $4 trillion, after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month. Microsoft has reached this […] Read more ›
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Google, just drop the blog posts and a quick highlight video at this point – we know it all it seems. We’re still 20 days away from Google’s next hardware event, but I’m not sure there is much of a point in hosting one any more. What don’t we know? We just found out the … Continued Read the original post: Pixel Watch 4 Gets Unexpected Price Drop Read more ›
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Since former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic Party has been in a panic over how it can win back more voters. Ideas have so far included Democratic officials going on podcasts, finding their own Joe Rogan, and growing facial hair. But when it comes to actual issues Democratic voters […] Read more ›
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Apple's highest-end iPhone 17 Pro Max model may have three key advantages over the smaller iPhone 17 Pro model, according to rumors. Specifically, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is expected to have…A larger 6.9-inch display (vs. 6.3-inch display on the iPhone 17 Pro) Even longer battery life (an approximately 5% thicker design may allow for a 5,000 mAh or higher battery capacity) A smaller Dynamic Island compared to the Pro... Read more ›
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AOC brings Mini LED tech to the value segment with its Q27G40XMN. It’s a 27-inch VA QHD panel with 180 Hz and Adaptive-Sync. It delivers HDR peaks over 1,000 nits with a huge color gamut and precise video processing for a smooth gaming experience. Read more ›
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Although my first organized tour with a local guide in Bhutan was mostly great, the cons made me realize I wouldn't do it again until I'm older. Read more ›
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A third of student-loan borrowers from for-profit colleges are behind on payments. Trump's Education Department is issuing a warning. Read more ›
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The well-regraded 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller is on sale for just $18 via Amazon. This is nearly 40 percent off and a record-low price. Typically, this controller doesn't go any lower than $25, so this is one heck of a deal. There's one major caveat. The deal only applies to the pink colorway, which may not be everyone's bag. It looks pretty good, though, as you can see below. The... Read more ›
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Developers are growing increasingly frustrated with AI coding tools that produce deceptively flawed solutions, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey of over 49,000 programmers worldwide. The 2025 survey exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and satisfaction: while 84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, their trust has cratered. Only 33% trust AI accuracy today, down from 43% last year. The core problem isn't broken code... Read more ›
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Microsoft has reached a $4 trillion market cap, becoming only the second company to achieve this milestone. Investors drove the stock up 4.62% following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report, which showed strong growth in cloud-computing services fueled by artificial intelligence demand. Microsoft's Azure cloud business generated $75 billion in annual revenue, representing a 34% increase from the previous fiscal year. Nvidia became the first company to reach the $4 trillion... Read more ›
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Ukraine has new mobile complexes to keep its F-16s moving while Russia hunts them. That sort of dispersal is something the West is looking at, too. Read more ›
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I moved from California to Michigan and dated my partner long-distance. I decided to move back to be with him even though I knew he wasn't the one. Read more ›
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Xbox Game Pass made Microsoft almost $5bn in annual revenue last year, proving the company is in a healthy state despite last month's shock layoffs. Read more Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has named Shengjia Zhao as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, its new artificial intelligence organization, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads on Friday. “Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab working directly ... Read more ›
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Groq, a richly funded chip startup trying to take on Nvidia, told investors early this year it was on track to have more than $2 billion in revenue for 2025. Within the past month, the number it gave to investors has fallen to more than $500 million, according to documents viewed by The Information. Groq’s $2 billion projection came around the time it inked a $1.5 billion deal with Saudi... Read more ›
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Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing, straining partnerships that need a unified front. It helps sometimes to have just one decision-maker.That makes a case for Elad Gil, a prolific investor who made early investments in Perplexity, Harvey, Stripe and Airbnb. Gil is raising a fund of around $1.5 billion to back both young and mature... Read more ›
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Fireworks AI, a three-year-old startup that rents out Nvidia chip servers to developers that use artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners and Index Ventures, The Information reported. A ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today's column, my colleague Valida and I reported Tuesday that Canadian AI model maker Cohere is in talks to raise up to $500 million in a new funding round at a $6.3 billion valuation. Existing investors Inovia Capital and Radical Ventures are in talks to invest in the round. This company recently generated revenue at an annual pace of $100 million. At a $6.3 billion valuation,... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley royalty are set to be the big winners from Figma’s initial public offering this week. Former Meta and Google executive Sheryl Sandberg, former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins are all turning modest investments into windfalls ranging from tens of millions to more than $1 billion. Sandberg and Weiner were among the participants in Figma’s seed round, via a roughly $1.5... Read more ›
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GPT-5 is almost here, and we’re hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who’s used the unreleased version was extremely positive.That’s good news for OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator has been under pressure to show major gains from its next big artificial intelligence model since we first broke the news last November that it had seen diminishing returns from using more computational resources and data during “pretraining.”... Read more ›
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As TikTok’s future in the U.S. continues to be in limbo, the company is trying to quell a different regulatory threat north of the border.In November, the Canadian government told TikTok to wind down its operations in the country due to national security concerns, but curiously has allowed the app to remain available to the 14 million users in the country. The order means TikTok has to shut down its... Read more ›
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Amazon is taking steps to keep other companies’ artificial intelligence shopping tools from swarming its e-commerce site. In recent weeks, Amazon updated the code underpinning its website to add language warding off new AI agents from Google. These changes follow restrictions Amazon added earlier this year calling out bots from Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Read more ›
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Nearly everywhere I look, I’m seeing signs of how artificial intelligence is shaking up the way we engage online, from shopping to social media. OpenAI is reportedly working on a new checkout feature, betting that more consumers will turn to chatbots like its ChatGPT to find and purchase products. At the same time, I’m seeing an influx of realistic AI videos on my social media feeds, while a new generation... Read more ›
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