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Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and advertising, which would put Perplexity’s revenue growth on more sustainable footing, have moved much more slowly.
Nearly a year after the company began selling ad space and letting users buy things through its app, marketer
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The appeal follows a Supreme Court ruling last year offering broad legal protections for US presidents. Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump and other technology executives from the U.S. and Japan today at a closed-door dinner in Tokyo, in an effort to promote Japanese investment in the United States (via Bloomberg). The dinner took place at the residence of U.S. Ambassador George Glass. President Trump used the event to highlight expected Japanese financing of U.S. projects under the $550 billion framework negotiated earlier in... Read more ›
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Robyn Denholm urges investors to support billionaire chief’s package ahead of crucial November 6 vote Read more ›
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The White House’s East Wing is gone. With its demise, President Donald Trump continues to rewrite history, including the traditions of how a US president can take a bulldozer to the “people’s house.” For Trump, the East Wing had to be demolished to make way for a 90,000-square foot ballroom to host foreign dignitaries and […] Read more ›
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Delta sees market opportunities in the Gulf region that it doesn't want to miss, but it faces a perception hurdle among American travelers. Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association pressures the government for plentiful and green energy Read more ›
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Exactly 12 days ago, Oppo announced its Find X9 and Find X9 Pro flagships in China and the pair are now making their way to global markets. Both phones feature MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 SoC and massive 7,025 mAh (Find X9) and 7,500 mAh (Find X9 Pro) silicon-carbon batteries. Charging speeds top out at 80W for wired top-ups, and you also get 50W wireless and 10W reverse wireless on both phones.... Read more ›
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The Bluetti AC200PL portable power station with the Charge 1 alternator charger is on sale at Amazon for $1,199, down from the normal bundle price of $2,299. Read more ›
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Billionaire Bill Gates emphasized climate change's impact on poor countries and called for a focus on poverty and disease rather than emission goals. Read more ›
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The AirSense UAV drone is constructed from eco-friendly packaging boards and paper fiber. Read more ›
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Nvidia and HPE will build the Mission and Vision supercomputers for Los Alamos based on the Vera Rubin platform to advance national-security and open-science research using AI simulation and scientific computing. Read more ›
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Gates, a vaccine proponent, told Trump in 2017 that it "would be a terrible mistake" to let RFK Jr. lead a vaccine task force, per a new book. Read more ›
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Amazon's HR chief also explained the 14,000 cuts in part by saying AI is helping companies innovate faster. Read more ›
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After last year's delay and skipping Android 14 entirely, Fairphone is delivering ahead of schedule. Read more ›
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Pinball machines were once banned in the US and almost wiped out by video games in the 1980s. Here's how the game is still standing. Read more ›
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In Malaysia on Sunday, on the sidelines of a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, President Donald Trump presided over a ceremony for the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries had already agreed to a ceasefire back in July to end a five-day skirmish, the latest flare-up of a decades-old […] Read more ›
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The 10 wealthiest people on the planet are jointly worth around $2.5 trillion, as AI buzz has boosted tech stocks such as Larry Ellison's Oracle. Read more ›
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Adobe in recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, to buy the startup for about $3 billion, a premium from the startup’s $2.1 billion valuation in a January financing, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Synthesia and Adobe walked away without reaching a deal after disagreeing about the price, this person and two others said.... Read more ›
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Over the last few days our reporters have broken news about two merger discussions that fizzled: Adobe, which was interested in buying video startup Synthesia, and SoftBank, which talked with humanoid robotics maker Agility about a takeover. In both cases, the startups ended up pursuing more venture capital funding at higher valuations.These are just the latest instances of aborted acquisition talks involving artificial intelligence startups that we’ve broken over the... Read more ›
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This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many others at OpenAI shared the same background: They’d previously worked at Meta Platforms. And then Simo, who’d risen to be head of Facebook over a decade at Meta, offered reassurance—she wasn’t interested in redoing her tenure at Meta... Read more ›
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Amazon launched a new artificial intelligence-powered product recommendation feature Thursday, the e-commerce giant’s latest move to incorporate more AI features into both its consumer-facing shopping experience as well as the systems that power its search and recommendation features. The new ... Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, could this week “consummate” a long-anticipated deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., as the leaders prepare to meet Thursday in South Korea. President Trump recently ... Read more ›
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SoftBank is set to complete its $30 billion investment in OpenAI, after its board approved a $22.5 billion second installment on the deal, The Information reported. The remainder of its investment is contingent on OpenAI’s corporate restructuring, which would pave the way for a public offering ... Read more ›
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Defense tech company Anduril expects to burn through $800 million to $900 million in cash this year in an aggressive bid to win giant Pentagon contracts. Investors big and small are unperturbed, lining up to back the fast-growing seller of drones, missiles and border surveillance towers. The company appears to be the most coveted stock in the private markets, with small investors on the secondary market willing to pay nearly... Read more ›
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A few years ago, Elon Musk pitched Apple unsuccessfully on the idea of his company, SpaceX, providing satellite connectivity to iPhones. There are tantalizing hints that such a deal could be back on the table. In recent months, in anticipation of a possible future arrangement with Apple, SpaceX has added support in its new satellite designs for the same radio spectrum Apple uses for the iPhone’s current satellite features, which... Read more ›
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Netflix’s quarterly earnings reports have lately lacked the drama that once made the updates a must-watch for investors and reporters. For the past eight quarters, the video streamer has routinely posted quarterly revenue growth averaging around 15%—hardly hypergrowth but a big improvement on the 2% to 4% growth rate it recorded between late 2022 and late 2023. Nowadays the results are so predictable that it would be easy to tune... Read more ›
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Anthropic on Thursday said it plans to use up to 1 million Google Tensor processing units to power its artificial intelligence, implying the startup would spend tens of billions of dollars renting TPU servers. The announcement is a show of confidence in Google’s chip as an alternative to Nvidia’ ... Read more ›
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