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An entity being used to fund Meta Platforms’ 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 ›
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Apple plans to cut production of the iPhone Air amid underwhelming sales performance, Japan's Mizuho Securities believes (via The Elec). The Japanese investment banking and securities firm claims that the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are seeing higher sales than their predecessors during the same period last year, while the standard iPhone 17 is a major success, performing significantly better than the iPhone 16. The iPhone Air... Read more ›
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Expect more action and adventure in the classic 'Star Trek' style, and occasionally a puppet, as 'Strange New Worlds' begins coming into spacedock for its final end. Read more ›
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Airline pilots and flight attendants are sending food to air traffic control towers around the US, as workers aren't getting paid during the shutdown. Read more ›
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Apple and Formula 1 today announced a five-year partnership that brings all F1 races exclusively to Apple TV in the United States beginning next year. The partnership builds on Apple's relationship with Formula 1 following the success of Apple Original Films' blockbuster "F1: The Movie," which it says is the highest-grossing sports movie of all time. More to follow...Tag: Apple TV PlusThis article, "Apple Announces Partnership With Formula 1 for... Read more ›
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Prince Andrew issued a statement Friday saying "continued accusations" surrounding his personal life are proving a distraction to the royal family. Read more ›
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One of President Donald Trump’s boldest campaign pledges was to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) completely free. Yesterday, the Trump administration released its long-awaited proposals — which are nowhere making IVF free, or even significantly more affordable. That promise, a late gamble to win back women voters aggrieved by the GOP’s hostile stances on reproductive rights, […] Read more ›
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Forty-two million low-income Americans use SNAP. Benefits could shrink if the government shutdown drags into November. Read more ›
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A hacking collective called Com alleges it has doxxed hundreds of ICE and FBI officials. The group also has ties to Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters. Read more ›
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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, apologized in a post on X for suggesting the National Guard should be called into San Francisco. Read more ›
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"John Wick" star Keanu Reeves has appeared in numerous films from "Speed" to "The Matrix." Here's how they stack up, according to critics. Read more ›
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Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment. Read more ›
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Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) pump out nearly five times more planet-heating pollution than official figures show, a report has found. The Guardian: The cars, which can run on electric batteries as well as combustion engines, have been promoted by European carmakers as a way to cover long distances in a single drive -- unlike fully electric cars -- while still reducing emissions. Data shows PHEVs emit just 19% less... Read more ›
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Institutional Shareholder Services also counsels investors to oppose re-election of board member Ira Ehrenpreis Read more ›
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Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this time it’s launching hardware from an old competitor. Atari and Plaion, a company that develops, publishes, and distributes games, have collaborated on the new Intellivision Sprint that blends ‘80s console aesthetics with modern gaming conveniences. It’s a new take on Mattel’s Intellivision, which initially went […] Read more ›
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Col. Dave Lamborn said he didn't "want to encumber squads" of soldiers when "there's enough stuff for these guys to do." Read more ›
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Musk posted nonstop at the beginning of the year about British politics until his focus was consumed by DOGE. Now he's back. Read more ›
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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 ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people’s personal AI subscription.” The company last week made moves toward that goal with “apps in ChatGPT,” 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 ›
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If you’ve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you’ve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text that’s editable on a computer.OCR might not sound like the sexiest market. But it’s interesting enough for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prolific backers of young AI startups... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase will invest $10 billion in mostly US-based tech companies working in areas aligned with strategic government interests. The investments are part of a broader pledge by the bank to facilitate $1.5 trillion of transactions in areas including domestic manufacturing and artificial ... Read more ›
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At Salesforce’s 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 year’s event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it “takes time” for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more ›
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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 giant’s ongoing effort to reduce its dependence on China’s domestic supply chain amid geopolitical tensions ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI is aiming to build and control the world’s most powerful data center and a massive natural gas plant to power it. The scale of the project and xAI’s 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 ›
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Walmart said Tuesday that it would soon start selling products through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout feature, marking the first major retailer to strike an e-commerce partnership with the AI firm. Shoppers will be able to buy most Walmart and Sam’s Club products directly in ChatGPT conversations, ... Read more ›
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Oracle said Tuesday it will be the first cloud provider to offer a large cluster of Advanced Micro Devices’ next-generation artificial intelligence server chips next fall. The deal involves 50,000 of the AMD chips, MI450 graphics processing units, the companies said. It isn’t clear how much 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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