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The NFL, the world’s richest and most powerful sports league, would like you to know something: It is not thrilled with the way Nielsen measures its TV audience.
Earlier this week, the NFL took the extraordinary step of criticizing media measurement firm Nielsen, which the football giant argued is undercounting the number of viewers for its games by millions of people. While plenty of television broadcasters have groused about Nielsen in the past, it was the first time a big sports league has gone after th
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President Donald Trump said the so-called Department of War branding is to counter the “woke” Department of Defense name. Read more ›
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"This, in fact, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations," a DHS official said. Read more ›
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At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump. Read more ›
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A Delaware judge successfully challenged Musk's previous package. The result? It's even easier now for companies to pay execs massive compensation. Read more ›
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Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools. Read more ›
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The White House's least favorite subject just had another viral glowup this week. Read more ›
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The Pentagon called the move, which occurred in international waters, "highly provocative" and said it was meant to interfere with operations. Read more ›
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Donald Trump's Big Tech dinner included guests Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Sam Altman. Let's examine the seating chart. 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: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report this morning, and the numbers aren’t looking good for the US economy, or President Donald […] Read more ›
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Meta invests in AI chatbots by hiring contractors for markets like India and Indonesia, as privacy and policy scrutiny escalate. Read more ›
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Trump's Department of Education is soliciting feedback on a new manual focused on helping student-loan borrowers better manage repayment. Read more ›
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In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers […] Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by-side at a White House dinner, alongside numerous other tech CEOs.The nearly three dozen CEOs and execs in attendance took turns praising and thanking Trump. But Zuckerberg's comments were especially notable. In one moment that was widely shared on... Read more ›
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Melania Trump, who remained an enigmatic figure during President Donald Trump's first term, continues to keep a low profile during his second. Read more ›
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Hallucinations are when chatbots confidently present wrong information as fact. They plague the most popular chatbots, like ChatGPT and Claude. Read more ›
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Apple made several battery-related changes in iOS 26, introducing features that make it easier to tell which apps are draining battery and new ways to extend battery life. Battery Design Changes Apple updated the Battery section of the Settings app in iOS 26, and the new design provides a more in-depth look at how iPhone usage impacts battery and how much battery apps are draining. The top of the Battery... Read more ›
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Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data. Read more ›
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Case will compensate authors but could raise costs of training large language models Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Sept. 6, No. 348. Read more ›
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Google is one of the largest buyers of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips, which it rents out to Google Cloud customers such as OpenAI and Meta Platforms. But Google’s grand ambitions for its own competing AI chips show no sign of slowing down. In the latest example, Google recently approached small cloud providers that primarily rent out Nvidia chips about also hosting Google’s AI chips in their data centers, according to... Read more ›
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KKR is bringing on former Amazon Web Services boss Adam Selipsky as a strategic advisor to bolster the private equity firm’s big bets on data centers and the technical infrastructure powering artificial intelligence. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation and governance for KKR’s ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Finally! An explanation of what the Musk-Altman legal feud really means• The Arena: Can the metaverse and TikTok help tennis connect with young fans?• Plus, our Recommendations: “The Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze,” “Anointed” and “Alien: Earth” Generally speaking, humans communicate with each other through words. As for artificial intelligence, we’re still figuring out exactly how it can communicate, and—well, it’s... Read more ›
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A small cloud provider for artificial intelligence that’s preparing to go public has secured a major boost from its most important supplier: Nvidia. The chip giant agreed this summer to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from the cloud firm, Lambda, for $1.3 billion over four years, and a separate $200 million deal to rent 8,000 more Nvidia chips over an unspecified time frame, according to a person with... Read more ›
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Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn’t expanding as quickly as it had hoped. In the first half of this year, the ticketing app fell short of revenue and profit projections it shared with lenders earlier this year, in part due to new U.S. ticket pricing rules. The shortfall highlights the volatile nature of the ticketing industry, which is heavily dependent on the flow... Read more ›
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Nasdaq is stepping up its scrutiny of companies listed on its exchange that are aiming to get a stock price boost by raising money to buy and hoard crypto, according to company filings and people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s move could slow the crypto boom that is putting increasingly exotic tokens on mainstream markets. The stock exchange, where the vast majority of crypto stocks are trading, is requiring... Read more ›
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U.S. tech merger activity is headed for its best year since 2021—driven in part by enterprise software and other older tech companies acquiring artificial intelligence startups to beef up their AI offerings. So far this year, U.S. software companies have spent nearly $33.8 billion on 140 completed AI acquisitions, surpassing the combined volume of the past three years, according to data provider PitchBook. During the same period, U.S. companies have... Read more ›
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Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia graphics chips for artificial intelligence, has hired investment banks to prepare for an initial public offering in the U.S., according to people with direct knowledge of the talks. The San Jose, Calif.-based startup has hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Citi to prepare for a listing as soon as the first half of next year, the people said. The 13-year-old company is... Read more ›
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We’re in the midst of an M&A boom—for artificial intelligence startups. Among the latest: Nvidia last month bought Solver, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The three-year-old startup formerly known as Laredo Labs has developed an AI coding agent that completes software development tasks for users. The company raised $8 million in financing from investors including Radical Ventures and Horizons Ventures. The Solver purchase is just... Read more ›
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Companies like Physical Intelligence or Skild AI that aim to build robots that can handle a variety of tasks out of the box have raised hundreds of millions in funding over the last two years. Now, a startup that’s taking a different approach—building robots that master one task at a time—is raising a new round of funding. The startup, Redwood City, California-based Dyna Robotics, is considering multiple investment offers valuing... Read more ›
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