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President Donald Trump announced Friday that skilled foreign workers applying for H1-B visas will have to pay a $100,000 fee. Currently, H1-B applicants pay fees including $215 to enter a lottery, and a larger application fee if they are selected in the lottery. Tech companies often hire foreign ...
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"If Disney's going to cave to Trump, then Disney doesn't get my money," one former Disney+ subscriber who canceled told Business Insider. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: Companies will have to pay $100,000 a year for any employee it brings over to the US on the visa for up to six years. The Secretary of Homeland Security will restrict approval for visa applications unless accompanied by the fee, though the rule "allows case-by-case... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order that changed the annual H1-B visa fee. Read more ›
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The Washington Post: The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won't gather any information - even unclassified - that hasn't been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. Under the policy, the Pentagon may revoke press passes for anyone it deems a security threat. Possessing confidential or... Read more ›
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Trump's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times was "tedious" and could be 45 pages shorter, a federal judge ruled. Read more ›
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Shares in IT consulting firms dropped on news of changes to scheme popular with Silicon Valley Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel should just leave ABC and go online, people have been saying this week. But it's not that easy: Donald Trump can find you there, too. Read more ›
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In a chaotic meeting, ACIP voted not to recommend a prescription requirement for Covid-19 vaccines. Some panelists seemed unaware of the point of the meeting, while others went on strange tangents. Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says tariffs played no role in the higher price 'to be totally clear.' Read more ›
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Donald Trump and Melania Trump wore matching shades of purple in the UK. It was one of many instances of first couples coordinating their outfits. Read more ›
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Amazon's logistics network will now fulfill orders placed on Walmart.com, the company announced at its Accelerate seller conference, creating a surreal arrangement where the e-commerce giant directly supports its biggest retail rival's online operations. Third-party sellers can now use Amazon's Multichannel Fulfillment service to automatically process Walmart orders through direct integration. The packages arrive in unbranded boxes since Walmart prohibits Amazon-branded deliveries to its customers. Amazon Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel's suspension has provoked dread in the late-night world. Hollywood writers rallied against Disney and Trump. Read more ›
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Jon Stewart has reacted to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension with an episode of "The Daily Show" devoted to praising Trump. Read more ›
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Three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets flew into Estonia on Friday, escalating tensions and marking the latest violation of NATO airspace by Moscow. Read more ›
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Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner sounded off on ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show, in a thinly veiled shot at current leader Bob Iger. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t suspended because of poor ratings. He wasn’t suspended because he crossed some ethical red line. He was suspended because the president of the United States decided to make an example of him. The supposed justification came on Kimmel’s Monday night show. “We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA […] Read more ›
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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to impose a new $100,000 application fee for H-1B worker visas, a White House official said, potentially dealing a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China. From a report: As part of his broader immigration crackdown, the Republican president was expected to sign a proclamation as early as Friday restricting entry under the H-1B visa program... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was upset. Last fall, one of his technical teams told large Salesforce customers that using Agentforce, the software firm’s new artificial intelligence for automating customer service and other functions, would require extensive planning. The product information the Salesforce team shared with those customers acknowledged the complexity of making the AI perform well. That message contradicted Benioff, a charismatic salesman who had been telling customers that using... Read more ›
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Anthropic, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers are sending large language models to the office. The AI models are being taught how to use everything from Salesforce’s customer relationship management software to Zendesk’s customer support and Cerner’s health records apps. The idea is to teach AI how to handle some of the complicated tasks white-collar workers do. Read more ›
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Navan is planning to reveal on Friday its securities filing for an initial public offering, two people with direct knowledge of the deal said, marking one of the final steps toward a long awaited listing for the travel software startup. The startup has confidentially submitted its IPO plans in ... Read more ›
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Shares of StubHub closed at $22 on its first day of trading, more than 6% below its initial public offering price of $23.50. The offering raised $800 million. Stubhub CEO Eric Baker said in an interview that the company is betting on future revenue growth from direct ticket sales. The ... Read more ›
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September is on track for six venture-backed tech listings, the most since November 2021. The rising number of IPOs means venture funds can start returning more cash to the limited partners that back them, relieving one of the strains that had held back VC fundraising over the last few years. Nearly all of September’s listings are from companies more than 10 years old. These include Netskope, which plans to price... Read more ›
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The House Select Committee on China is planning to send a letter to PayPal CEO Alex Chriss on Friday, seeking assurances that the U.S. payment giant is complying with anti money-laundering rules after it entered into a partnership earlier this year with a unit of Chinese tech giant Tencent. In a ... Read more ›
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On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Office 365 Copilot, the version of Microsoft’s flagship software that comes with artificial intelligence features. And more than a year ago, Informatica did test out Office 365 Copilot for a handful of its employees, according to CIO Graeme Thompson. But Thompson... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI told staff this week that its Grok chatbot has 64 million monthly users, the New York Times reported on Thursday. By contrast, OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had hit 700 million weekly users, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in July that its Gemini app had 450 million ... Read more ›
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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... Read more ›
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On Wednesday, Meta Platforms took a big step towards dominating the still-nascent augmented reality market when it unveiled the latest version of its Ray-Bans smart glasses, this time with a see-through display and a wristband for controlling the device. People will be able to send text messages via hand motions interpreted by the wristband.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the glasses were a step towards “superintelligence,” his artificial intelligence holy grail.... Read more ›
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