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Perplexity, which runs an artificial intelligence-powered search engine, has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new capital comes less than two months after the three-year-old ...
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Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hoping its robots can replace more than 600,000 jobs it would otherwise have to hire in the United States [âŠ] Read more âș
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Itâs hard to think of a more dramatic question than the issue before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois. President Donald Trump wants to use federalized troops to quell protests outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago. Two federal courts have ruled that federal law does not permit Trump to do this. But the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Apple's large-screened foldable iPad could be delayed due to development issues, reports Bloomberg. Apple wanted to launch the device in 2028, but problems with weight and display technology may cause it to be pushed back until 2029. Multiple rumors have suggested that Apple is working on a large foldable device, though information has diverged on whether it will be positioned as an âiPadâ or a Mac. The product is expected... Read more âș
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CAH: Trespassing lawsuit forced SpaceX to "pack up the space garbage" and leave. Read more âș
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On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts. Read more âș
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Streamerâs most successful ever film helped drive up revenues by nearly a fifth Read more âș
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Aerie's pledge to avoid AI in advertising gained 40,000 Instagram likes. It's not the only brand to reject the tech. Read more âș
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When President Donald Trump first took office in 2017, it wasnât self-evident that the transgender community, in particular, had anything to fear. Prior to his presidency, Trump had said largely positive, or at least tolerant, things about LGBTQ+ people. He said he had no problem hiring gay people and supported amending the 1964 Civil Rights [âŠ] Read more âș
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Toyota is a brand of cars known for holding their value, so if you're searching on the used market, consider these 13 used Toyota models. Read more âș
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WalletHub ranked the best and worst cities for retirees in 2025, highlighting affordability, healthcare, and quality of life. Read more âș
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Only a handful of No. 1 hits have arrived in the chart's top spot. But holding that position for a second week is even rarer. Read more âș
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The first reviews of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip have been shared by selected publications and YouTube channels, ahead of the device launching this Wednesday. Apple began accepting pre-orders last week. Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the new 14-inch MacBook Pro already surfaced prior to today, revealing that the M5 chip is up to around 20% faster in the laptop, compared to the equivalent previous-generation model with... Read more âș
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Envoy Air, part of American Airlines, has confirmed that it was targeted by the CIop ransomware group. Read more âș
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Atlas brings powerful ChatGPT tools right to the browser tabs of your desktop â and soon, phone. Read more âș
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OpenAI today introduced ChatGPT Atlas, a dedicated AI browser that includes ChatGPT integration. OpenAI says that the browser was designed around the question "What if you could chat with your web browser?" There is a dedicated "Ask ChatGPT" sidebar, allowing users to ask the chatbot questions directly from the browser without having to go to the ChatGPT website or app. ChatGPT will be able to do things like provide page... Read more âș
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GM is ending production of the Chevy Brightdrop electric van, according to portions of a transcript of a recent earnings report published by The Verge. The decision was made due to slowing demand in the EV market, as hundreds of Brightdrop vans have begun piling up in dealer lots. âThis is not a decision we made lightly because of the impact on our employees,â CEO Mary Barra said in the... Read more âș
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Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to offspring. Read more âș
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Shares of Google's parent company took a hit as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pitched ChatGPT Atlas as the future of web browsing. Read more âș
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Microsoft has issued a patch for Windows 11 after an update released on October 14 quietly broke the Windows Recovery Environment on some systems. Read more âș
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In July, Apple filed a lawsuit against Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over alleged theft of the company's trade secrets. The complaint alleged the pair coordinated to break into former Apple software engineer Ethan Lipnik's development iPhone, in order to access and profit off details about iOS 19, which ended up being called iOS 26. Prosser leaked various details about what is now known as iOS 26, in videos shared... Read more âș
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OpenAI has spent roughly $6.4 billion in stock to buy three startups over the last 16 months, while its smaller rival Anthropic has done barely any deals. But Anthropic, recently valued at $170 billion in a funding round, told investment bankers in recent weeks that it is getting ready to move off the sidelines and do more acquisitions, according to people who have spoken to its executives. It is considering... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become âpeopleâs personal AI subscription.â The company last week made moves toward that goal with âapps in ChatGPT,â which lets people use the chatbot to search for homes on Zillow or make Spotify playlists, for instance.In another example, OpenAI has pitched companies on allowing visitors to sign into their websites using their ChatGPT credentials, just... Read more âș
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Peter Hoeschele, who runs OpenAIâs Stargate data center team, said at an event last week that the companyâs models are essentially in constant training mode. Thatâs a change from the past, when OpenAI would stop training them when they reached a certain point. âLetâs stop talking about training versus inference,â Hoeschele said after Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk asked him how OpenAI allocates computing resources between training the models and running... Read more âș
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At Salesforceâs annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly 45,000 attendees that using artificial intelligence to automate everything from customer service to sales functions was an easy and quick process. At this yearâs event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it âtakes timeâ for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more âș
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When a crypto crash ricocheted across markets earlier this month, the spotlight landed on Hyperliquid, an exchange that handles more than $13 billion in trades a day with around 11 employees based largely in Singapore. The two-year-old exchange is little known outside crypto markets but wildly popular among traders for offering anonymity, high leverage and giving away a token that has soared in value. Hyperliquid has no outside investors and... Read more âș
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Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products including laptops and servers outside China as early as next year, Nikkei Asia reported. The move is part of the U.S. tech giantâs ongoing effort to reduce its dependence on Chinaâs domestic supply chain amid geopolitical tensions ... Read more âș
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An entity being used to fund Meta Platformsâ large-scale data center in Louisiana sold more than $27 billion in debt with an interest rate about 2.25 percentage points above the U.S. Treasury yield. Meta is raising the debt, maturing in 2049, for a roughly $30 billion special-purpose vehicle the ... Read more âș
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The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have each reached very different agreements to supply chips to OpenAI. The arrangements open up all three to the risk that OpenAI, which expects to burn $115 billion through 2029, canât afford to keep its commitments. The deals pose different risks to each companyâs business, but AMD faces the biggest downside... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs xAI is aiming to build and control the worldâs most powerful data center and a massive natural gas plant to power it. The scale of the project and xAIâs precarious finances are forcing the company into unusual financial arrangements that rely on outsiders to raise funding and shoulder much of the risk. XAI wants to have as much control as possible over Colossus 2, its second supersize data... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Arena: Call it moneyball for minorsâinside the booming business of youth sports appsâą The Top 5: Best new places for a tech holiday party ⹠Plus, our Recommendations: âThe Big Shortâ with âAgainst the Rules: The Big Short Companion,â âMurderland,â and âJohn Candy: I Like MeâTwo months ago, Cleo Abram, a former Vox journalist turned YouTuber, posed an intriguing question to OpenAI CEO Sam... Read more âș
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