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Skyworks Solutions, which supplies radio frequency chips to Apple and other smartphone makers, held talks in recent months to buy Qorvo, a rival with a market capitalization of more than $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
The acquisition talks follow warnings by both companies that sales to their biggest customer, which they previously said was Apple, were weakening because other rivals were winning business. It couldn’t be learned if Skyworks and Qorvo had finalized an agreement.
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Of all the companies that could have launched a robot vacuum in 2025, I didn't have DJI in the running - but here we are. The drone and camera manufacturer released the DJI Romo robovac in Europe today, following its China debut this summer. The Romo is a combo robot vacuum and mop with a […] Read more ›
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The government shutdown means the latest job numbers haven't been released, but the Fed is still likely to cut. Read more ›
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Amazon is reportedly gearing up to lay off around 30,000 employees across almost all departments, from human resources to operations and AWS. The move, starting Tuesday, will reportedly slash nearly 10 per cent of the tech giant's white-collar workforce. Amazon is yet to respond to the matter Read more ›
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The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people. Read more ›
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Earlier this month, Motorola listed the X70 Air on the Lenovo China website, but did not reveal pricing or availability details. The company has now confirmed the pricing of its new ‘Air’ phone. The Moto X70 Air is priced at CNY 2,399 ($340) for the 12GB/256GB variant, whereas the 12GB/512GB option will cost you CNY 2,699 ($380). The phone is available in Bronze Green, Gadget Gray, and Lily Pad colors.... Read more ›
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The clips, aired by state media, show a delta-wing ASN-301 rocketing forth from a truck launcher and climbing sharply before diving into its target. Read more ›
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Alex Rodriguez said he's glad Patrick Mahomes didn't take the advice he gave him when he was a kid. Read more ›
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Elon Musk launched Grokipedia on Monday. He previously said xAI was working on the Wikipedia competitor. Read more ›
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ExxonMobil has sued California, claiming the state's new climate disclosure laws violate its First Amendment rights by forcing the company to report greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks using standards it "fundamentally disagrees with." The Verge reports: The oil and gas company claims that the two laws in question aim to "embarrass" large corporations the state "believes are uniquely responsible for climate change" in order to push them to reduce... Read more ›
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After leaving her paralegal job in the US, Clara Davis moved to China. A decade later, she made another big move — to Bali. Read more ›
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Now he's best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of classic episodes of The X-Files, ranging from a monster-themed spoof of Cops to a bizarre […] Read more ›
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xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected. Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikipedia entries, with headings, subheadings, and citations. I haven’t seen any photos on the site yet. Wikipedia […] Read more ›
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OnePlus announced its new OnePlus 15 flagship phone for China today, giving us all an early look at a device that is likely to launch here in the coming weeks or months. OnePlus has not yet said when this device could hit our shores, but arriving in China is always the first step towards that … Continued Read the original post: OnePlus 15 Goes Official in China and Here are... Read more ›
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Robyn Denholm said in a letter to shareholders that Musk stepping away could lead to Tesla losing "significant value." Read more ›
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Bill Ackman, Joe Gebbia, and Steve Wynn are among the billionaires who have poured money into the NYC mayoral election since the June primary. Read more ›
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Apple today scored a victory in a long-running antitrust lawsuit when the judge overseeing the case decertified it. The antitrust lawsuit was originally filed in 2011, accusing Apple of monopolizing the iPhone app ecosystem by refusing to allow customers to download apps outside of the App Store. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has been handling the case since 2012, but it did make its way through the Ninth Circuit Court of... 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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Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, on Friday threw cold water on the idea that artificial general intelligence is around the corner. He also cast doubt on various assumptions about AI made by the industry’s biggest boosters, such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.The highly regarded Karpathy called reinforcement learning—arguably the most important area of research right now—“terrible,” said AI-powered coding agents aren’t as exciting... 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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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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