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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic frontrunner of the NYC mayoral race, said CEOs will come if the employees they need can afford to live in the city. Read more āŗ
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Zohran Mamdani was asked how he'd be mayor of Wall Street and democratic socialists. His answer was tax hikes and tackling corporate greed. Read more āŗ
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I'm a longtime Swiftie. But something changed in the past few years, as she became a billionaire and relentlessly released albums ā I simply can't keep up. Read more āŗ
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The US is waking up to livestreaming, a cornerstone of Chinese e-commerce, and retailers like eBay and Whatnot are cashing in on the trend. Read more āŗ
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared what it was like to get beat to market by OpenAI with ChatGPT and says the startup deserved credit. Read more āŗ
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The Unites States Chamber of Commerce sued the Trump administration over the new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. Read more āŗ
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āWe were the targets.ā WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it. Read more āŗ
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Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns. Read more āŗ
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Despite years of rumors suggesting Apple is working on Macs with Face ID instead of Touch ID, the technology isn't coming any time soon, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman claims that Apple is aiming to shift from āTouch IDā to āFace IDā in the Mac line, but the change "remains years away." Gurman and others have incorrectly predicted āFace IDā for Macs several times over the past five years.... Read more āŗ
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As expected, Vertu has made the Agent Q smartphone official today at Harrods in London. The phone comes with a 6.02" AMOLED screen with 1080x2340 resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC at the helm (and it's the "Supreme" higher-bin version), 16GB of RAM, 512GB/1TB of storage, and a 5,565 mAh battery with 65W wired charging support. There's a 50 MP main camera with OIS, which has... Read more āŗ
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Apple plans to launch MacBook Air models equipped with the new M5 chip in spring 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple is also working on M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models that will come early in the year. Neither the āMacBook Proā models nor the āMacBook Airā models are expected to get design changes, with Apple focusing on simple chip upgrades. In the case of the āMacBook... Read more āŗ
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This story appeared inĀ The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life.Ā Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trumpās former national security adviser, John Bolton, was indicted today on charges of mishandling classified documents.Ā What did Bolton allegedly do? Bolton was [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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EA employees and the Communications Workers of America union have condemned the company's proposed $55 billion private acquisition -- backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, "claiming they were not represented in the negotiations and any jobs lost as a result would 'be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors' pockets," reports Eurogamer. From the report: Following the announcement, there's been plenty of... Read more āŗ
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40 Acres, The Cabin in the Woods, and Barbarian are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now. Read more āŗ
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Recovery teams working on the Titan submersible have found the vessel's specialist stills and video camera intact. Read more āŗ
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Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages. Read more āŗ
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Apple has retained its position as the world's most valuable brand for the 13th consecutive year, topping Interbrand's 2025 Best Global Brands ranking with an estimated brand value of $470.9 billion. The annual Interbrand report evaluates the world's top 100 companies based on financial performance, brand strength in purchase decisions, and overall competitiveness. The report claims that combined brand value of all 100 entries rose 4.4% year over year to... Read more āŗ
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Kim Kardashian opened up about her love life during a recent appearance on "Call Her Daddy," saying that she'd like to date a longevity scientist. Read more āŗ
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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 āŗ
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When ecommerce consultant David Khandrius had to help a client who sold baby strollers write a product listing for Amazonās website in the past, he typically tried to jam as many words into the listing as possible to ensure Amazonās search algorithm would capture it. That might result in a convoluted title for a listing, like ātravel stroller for beach park super compact airplane overhead.ā Nowadays, though, he said, the... Read more āŗ
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Iām not sure what everyone elseās social media feeds are looking like these days, but over the past 72 hours mine has become unrecognizable to me. On TikTok, Iāve been inundated with short clips of slap-boxing competitions between Fred Rogers and Kurt Cobain, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and Elvis Presley and Bob Marley. Iāve watched indie rocker Elliott Smith dunking a basketball in a Portland Trail Blazers uniform while... Read more āŗ
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If youāve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, youāve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text thatās editable on a computer.OCR might not sound like the sexiest market. But itās interesting enough for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prolific backers of young AI startups... Read more āŗ
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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 āŗ
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At Salesforceās 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 yearās event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it ātakes timeā for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more āŗ
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Walmart said Tuesday that it would soon start selling products through ChatGPTās 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 Samās Club products directly in ChatGPT conversations, ... Read more āŗ
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Oracle said Tuesday it will be the first cloud provider to offer a large cluster of Advanced Micro Devicesā 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 isnāt clear how much data ... Read more āŗ
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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. āWe donāt have enough cops, ... Read more āŗ
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Demand for Nvidiaās artificial intelligence chips has spawned half a dozen multibillion-dollar cloud providers that buy the chips, install them in data centers and rent them out to OpenAI and other AI developers. Another upstart, Together AI, is now joining the race among these neoclouds, which compete against traditional cloud providers such as Amazon and Google. San Franciscoābased Together, which has been leasing Nvidia chip servers from cloud providers and... Read more āŗ
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