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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 at The Browser Co. and Brave about potentially buying either
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The Dutch government has taken control of the Chinese-owned Nexperia, an automotive and consumer chip production company, for national security reasons. It's claiming that to prevent key technologies from leaving European and Dutch soil, it needs to put hard blocks in place. Read more ›
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Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone may cost less to manufacture than previously expected thanks to major reductions in hinge component pricing, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a new report, Kuo said that the hinge designed for Apple's foldable iPhone is expected to carry an average selling price (ASP) of approximately $70 to $80 when mass production begins, well below the market expectation of $100 to $120 or higher. Kuo attributed... Read more ›
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg led the wealth declines on Friday as fresh fears of a trade war hammered stocks. Read more ›
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Jamie Dimon warned the US is too reliant on foreign suppliers for key minerals and tech as JPMorgan unveiled a $1.5T plan to boost national security. Read more ›
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Nearly half of restaurants plan to raise menu prices further if concern around inflation continues, the financial services company, Toast, has found. Read more ›
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The latest version of the Windows Media Creation Tool 'might close unexpectedly, displaying no error message' admits Microsoft. Read more ›
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Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes. Read more ›
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If you can’t upgrade to Windows 11 with a simple software update, these are the best Windows 11 laptops to buy right now. Read more ›
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Chinese regulators are investigating Qualcomm over a months-old deal to purchase connected car chip firm Autotalks, in a move that could be just the latest aggressive action from China as part of ongoing high-tech trade negotiations. Read more ›
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"Compassion and capitalism, not greed, are what can make this country far greater," Cuban wrote on X. Read more ›
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Anduril Industries launches EagleEye, military products that use Meta's virtual reality technology for enhanced battlefield awareness. Read more ›
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Whether your chip is running a vintage computer game or the latest DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native language. Read more ›
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Tariff uncertainty, the lack of rare earth minerals in the US, and the undoing of clean energy credits may have kept prices up for Tesla's new models. Read more ›
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Enthusiasm for Sora 2 "wasn't shared in Hollywood," reports the Los Angeles Times, "where the new AI tools have created a swift backlash" that "appears to be only just the beginning of a bruising legal fight that could shape the future of AI use in the entertainment business." [OpenAI] executives went on a charm offensive last year. They reached out to key players in the entertainment industry — including Walt... Read more ›
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If you're struggling with a weak connection, these expert tips will help you get more bars. Read more ›
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Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out specialized cloud servers to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers over the next five fiscal years. But internal documents show the fast-growing cloud business has had razor-thin gross profit margins in the past year or so, lower than what many... Read more ›
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When ecommerce consultant David Khandrius had to help a client who sold baby strollers write a product listing for Amazon’s website in the past, he typically tried to jam as many words into the listing as possible to ensure Amazon’s search algorithm would capture it. That might result in a convoluted title for a listing, like “travel stroller for beach park super compact airplane overhead.” Nowadays, though, he said, the... Read more ›
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I’m not sure what everyone else’s social media feeds are looking like these days, but over the past 72 hours mine has become unrecognizable to me. On TikTok, I’ve been inundated with short clips of slap-boxing competitions between Fred Rogers and Kurt Cobain, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and Elvis Presley and Bob Marley. I’ve watched indie rocker Elliott Smith dunking a basketball in a Portland Trail Blazers uniform while... Read more ›
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Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from competitors like Anthropic and Google.OpenAI on Monday announced Agent Builder, a set of tools for configuring agents to resolve IT support tickets or... Read more ›
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OpenAI told Europe’s top antitrust regulator that big tech firms including Microsoft, Google, and Apple could be difficult for the startup to compete against, Bloomberg reported Thursday. During a Sept. 24 meeting with EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribaldi, OpenAI said it faced “difficulties” ... Read more ›
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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said Tuesday that the cloud provider will not change its $9 billion bid for Core Scientific ahead of a shareholder vote scheduled for October 30. Two Seas Capital said last month it would vote against the deal and urged other shareholders to do so. The hedge fund, ... Read more ›
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Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track who’s making changes to a codebase, and sandboxes where code can be safely run and tested without affecting the main system.Now, a startup is building such tools for artificial intelligence agents that aim to do the work of human coders. Andreessen Horowitz, which has been among the most prolific backers of young AI startups in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working. New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude Code’s.Developers approved 74.3% of code written by Codex, slightly higher than Claude Code’s 73.7% success rate in terms of approving code pull requests, according to data... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who was once seen as a leading voice for liberal politics in the Bay Area, voiced strong support for President Donald Trump in a new interview with the New York Times and advocated for Trump to send National Guard troops to San Francisco. “We don’t have enough cops, ... Read more ›
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It’s been nearly a year since we scooped the news that OpenAI, Google, Snowflake and Cohere were all working on artificial intelligence search products similar to the one startup Glean made a big splash with. Glean’s AI-powered search lets workers at companies easily find emails, Slack messages and other data scattered across business applications. As we said at the time, it seemed like everyone was trying to be like Glean.... Read more ›
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