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PayPal Holdings applied to set up a Utah-based bank, a move that would allow it to directly provide loans to customers instead of relying on third-party banks for much of the process. The 27-year old online payments company filed applications with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions ...
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The RingConn Gen 3 finally gives you a reason to upgrade, adding direct vibration alerts and blood pressure insights. Read more ›
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Vibe coding has upended software engineering, strapping developers with a suite of new AI tools. We want to hear from those navigating the moment. Read more ›
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For anyone who has searched for a job recently, the experience is painfully familiar: hours spent scrolling through job boards, submitting dozens of applications, and hearing nothing back. The same roles appear across multiple platforms. Listings stay up months after positions are filled. And despite applying to what seems like a perfect match, most applications ... Read more ›
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We've also spotted more clues of Perplexity being preinstalled on Samsung devices in the future. Read more ›
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Trump is having the government buy stakes directly in companies — and it's going to change the way we all do business and reshape the economy. Read more ›
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SpaceX’s Starlink is offering customers in Venezuela free access to its internet service after the US captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. According to CNBC, some areas of Caracas and other parts of the country lost power and internet connectivity in the wake of the operation. Starlink says its focus is “on enabling connectivity for new and existing customers to support the people of Venezuela.” At the time of writing,... Read more ›
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Some Galaxy S26 buyers might subsidize the phone for the rest of us. Read more ›
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The ZA3 firmware build targets specific glitches in the phone app and improves widget search visibility. Read more ›
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There's no word on how this works, but it's a neat addition to Samsung phones. Read more ›
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Mette Frederiksen, Denmark's prime minister, said the US "has no right to annex" Greenland. Read more ›
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When student work looked like McKinsey memos, an NYU business school professor used AI oral exams to test real learning. Read more ›
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If you're a Windows 11 hater, sit back and enjoy your biases being validated in the most satisfying way possible. A new speed test shows Microsoft's latest OS performing terribly against the five previous Windows versions, placing last in most tests across the board. Read more ›
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Bill Harris, a 69-year-old startup founder and the former CEO of PayPal and Intuit, says a midday nap and index cards help him get through the day. Read more ›
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Over the weekend, the United States invaded Venezuela, captured its leader, and then declared itself to be in charge of South America’s fifth-largest country. And no one — not even the US government — seems entirely sure why. The Trump administration has offered multiple high-minded explanations for its toppling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, none […] Read more ›
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It’s remarkable to think that a year or so ago, securing a coveted page-one search engine ranking was considered the marketer’s holy grail. No easy feat, getting there required absolute precision, constant fine-tuning and the perfect mix of keywords and backlinks. Of course, today that world looks rather different. As AI-driven search experiences dominate, they ... Read more ›
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The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro's capture was tied to Venezuela's vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually access them—or if they even want to. Read more ›
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"And I looked at the fierce, insanely gorgeous blue eyes and thought, 'I see what she means,'" Mary Steenburgen said. Read more ›
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As almost everyone in Silicon Valley has found out lately, creating AI is a money drain, and many of the biggest startups eager to do so aren’t profitable. That’s true even for the AI business run by the world’s richest man, and that’s why I expect Elon Musk will take a drastic step next year to keep the money flowing to xAI: by selling to the profitable part of his... Read more ›
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Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips inside data centers directly to developers, rather than just owning or developing the physical structures that surround them. The cloud business... Read more ›
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For an eventful year, 2025 is ending the same way it started. A year ago, Nvidia, OpenAI and others made it clear they would do everything necessary to win the race for artificial intelligence.The year ended with the same companies doing the same thing. Nvidia capped off a year of dealmaking—mostly to cement its lead in AI chips by agreeing to pay $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one... Read more ›
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For Christmas this holiday season, I bought my mom a navy blue 1980 Lake Placid Olympics sweater. It has special significance for her because, as a college student in upstate New York at the time, she got to attend the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union in person. Now, almost half a century later, my mom finally has some merchandise to commemorate it. The... Read more ›
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Meta Platform’s announcement on Monday that it has acquired Chinese agent startup Manus represents a big win for Manus’ backers, including Benchmark, ZhenFund and HongShan, who last invested in Manus in an April funding round that valued it at $500 million. Meta is paying more than $2 billion, my colleague Juro Osawa has reported (as have other outlets).That’s a huge gain on an eight month old investment. The deal also... Read more ›
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Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for tools promising to eliminate human work. The popularity of coding assistant Cursor made its... Read more ›
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Trump Media and Technology Group, the company that operates President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, said it will issue a new cryptocurrency to shareholders, according to a statement on Wednesday. The planned crypto coin, which the company said will likely be issued in ... Read more ›
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SoftBank said Monday it would buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion, or $16 per share, a 15% premium to Friday’s closing price, its latest step to increase investment in infrastructure for data centers. DigitalBridge owns several data center subsidiaries that are involved ... Read more ›
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Happy New Year! It’s the perfect time for a refresh on what’s been top of mind for The Information’s readers—and the early trends and open questions worth keeping tabs on in 2026. In 2025, our most popular stories revealed growing cracks in the artificial intelligence boom and pinpointed challenges facing the most dominant AI companies. The top story was also one of our most recent, about a “code red” inside... Read more ›
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No one in Silicon Valley gets wealthy or powerful by dwelling on the past. Rather, the brightest minds within tech often outshine the competition by obsessing about the future. We like to get in on the game too. In keeping with annual tradition, we’re publishing below our best educated guesses on what’ll happen in 2026: what Microsoft buys, what Amazon discards, what robot goes mainstream, and 12 other pieces of... Read more ›
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