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For years, Chinese billionaire He Xiaopeng has been pegged as an Elon Musk wannabe, and his electric vehicle company, XPeng, as a mere Tesla copycat. And until recently the company seemed laggardly, raising questions about whether it would survive.
All of that is changing quickly. In other words, XPeng has moved up a stair from the realm of mere novelty to unignorable player with intimidating products and shrewd commercial instincts. He may soon be a force that Silicon Valley and Detroit alike must reckon.
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Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days are coming up, and you can get a jump on things today. A mainstay of Prime Day sales, a pair of Blink Mini 2 cameras is on sale for only $35. That's 50 percent off, a record low and less than what you'd usually pay for one. It's also Engadget's pick for the best budget security camera. This budget-friend, wired camera is well-suited for nighttime... Read more ›
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A rare Intel engineering sample from the twilight of the Pentium 4 era has surfaced on social media. Read more ›
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I was nervous about my kids becoming teenagers, but I'm loving it. They're turning into fun adults, and their activities aren't kid-focused anymore. Read more ›
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Crucial is offering its flagship 2TB T705 PCIe 5.0 SSD for just $160, this Prime Day. Utilizing Phison's E26 controller and 232-layer Micron TLC, the T705 achieves read and write speeds of 14.5 GB/s and 12.7 GB/s, respectively, backed by 1,200 TBW of endurance. It earned the Editor's Choice award in our review. Read more ›
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Woot this weekend is back with a massive sale on Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop bands for Apple Watch, with as much as 70 percent off these accessories. You can get the Solo Loop for just $14.99 ($34 off) and the Braided Solo Loop for $29.99 ($69 off). All bands in this sale are in brand new condition and come with a one-year Apple limited warranty, and they will... Read more ›
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One of Discord's third-party customer service providers has been infiltrated by an unauthorized party who was able to gain access to users' information. Discord said it recently discovered the incident, which took place on September 20. The compromised data includes a "small number" of government IDs like driver's licenses and passports, which some users may have submitted to verify their ages. To be clear, Discord itself wasn't hacked, and you... Read more ›
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China released footage of carrier Fujian's electromagnetic catapults last month, showing off a technology only the US had previously. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Google is working on a Computer Control feature that will let you automate Android apps. Here's how. Read more ›
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Spotify, Comcast, and Oracle have recently named co-CEOs. Dual chiefs share what it's like to make decisions together and split responsibilities. Read more ›
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Google Japan’s Gboard team have designed and open-sourced a revolutionary new physical keyboard that boldly eschews keys in favor of dials. Read more ›
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Ford CEO Jim Farley said the practice of "gemba," or seeing processes in person, is helping him modernize the 122-year-old automaker for the EV age. Read more ›
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Plus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace violations, and more. Read more ›
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The calendar has flipped over to October, but that doesn't mean Apple is done with product launches for 2025. We're still expecting updates to several product lines, and Apple has a history of making announcements in October so we'll be keeping a lookout for news. Several of those upcoming products have already leaked thanks to Russian YouTubers and U.S. regulatory databases, although release timing remains a bit unclear. This week... Read more ›
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Discord's support systems were recently compromised in a data breach, where hackers gained access to some user information via third-party service providers. The hackers intended to extort money from Discord by holding the data, but the company has already begun an investigation and severed the affected provider's access to its ticketing system. Read more ›
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Watches are a core part of the wardrobes of many successful men. While some wear affordable, chic options, others splurge on luxury timepieces. Read more ›
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Black Rabbit, Haunted Hotel, and Alice in Borderland are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month. Read more ›
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Could a badly named, synthetic starlet really be coming to a theater near you? Tilly Norwood hopes so. No, that’s not the name of a Hollywood executive or an indie director. It’s an AI-generated avatar that its creator wants to put on the big screen. Norwood isn’t exactly megawatt-star material. Her image is notably unstriking. […] Read more ›
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ChatGPT remains by far the most widely used chatbot among people responding to The Information Pro’s latest subscriber survey, but it lost ground over the past seven months. So did most other chatbots, possibly a sign that our readers are experimenting with fewer chatbots and have decided on those they want to primarily use. Overall, the use of artificial intelligence services has become even more widespread among our readers since... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to acquire the chip startup Rivos, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in July said his company would spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” on expanding its computing capacity to enable its ambitions in artificial ... Read more ›
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After AI coding apps like Cursor and Replit popularized “vibe coding,” Microsoft wants to make “vibe working” happen.Microsoft on Monday unveiled Office Agent, which lets people create complex PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets based on simple written prompts in the Copilot chatbot. Read more ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 53 on Monday, a law that will require the largest AI companies to abide by their own safety and cybersecurity policies. One company that should take heed of the new law is Elon Musk's xAI.The ink had barely dried on xAI’s safety policy, which it published in August, when the company released its model Grok Code Fast 1 and violated the policy’s terms, according... Read more ›
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Elon Musk has been paying closer attention to his artificial intelligence company, xAI, over the past few months, pushing staff to move as quickly as possible to catch up with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The xAI CEO’s increased involvement has led to frequent reorganizations, demotions and firings on the teams building the company’s AI models and products. At the same time, xAI has been integrating the social media site... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that a joint venture will oversee TikTok’s U.S. business left unanswered the important question of who will run the new company. Inside TikTok, executives say there’s a very obvious candidate: Adam Presser, the longtime No. 2 to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and one of the top Americans at the company. In August, Presser became the new head of TikTok’s U.S. Data Security unit, which... Read more ›
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You might think the $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts would be today’s biggest business event. But that’s yesterday’s news—word of the deal broke on Friday. (For more on that, see below). Today’s biggest news, in reality, is OpenAI’s launch of its shopping feature, which puts the ChatGPT creator in competition with everyone from Amazon to Instagram. OpenAI unveiled what it calls an Instant Checkout feature, which it said was... Read more ›
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Snyk, a startup that sells security tools for developers, seemed like a shoe-in for a lucrative initial public offering a few years ago. Sales were doubling or tripling every year, reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, as exploding corporate use of open-source software code created vulnerabilities that businesses needed to patch. Snyk’s valuation soared to more than $8 billion. Now, the decade-old company seems stuck. The tech... Read more ›
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Stripe is planning to apply for a charter with a federal banking regulator to meet the requirements of new U.S. stablecoin legislation, which will allow it to keep issuing stablecoins for clients when the law takes effect. The company is preparing to apply for a national trust charter with the ... Read more ›
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Fivetran, a startup used by companies to manage and prepare data for analytics and artificial intelligence, is in talks to buy data management company dbt Labs, according to people with direct knowledge of the deal. The deal would combine two data companies that are facing competition from artificial intelligence. Fivetran and dbt Labs have complementary offerings and the deal could give them the scale to compete in a fast-changing market... Read more ›
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