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The crypto world has gotten some early Christmas presents. The Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed some Biden-era lawsuits, and the industry has helped push through landmark stablecoin legislation. Crypto companies have also made strides on a lingering problem: access to the mainstream financial system. But that is still a bottleneck for the industry.First, the wins. This month, Circle and Ripple were among five crypto firms that won national trust charters from a federal banking regulator. Tex
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Micron has responded to criticism over its decision to exit the consumer memory business and warns that shortages may last until 2028. Read more ›
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Windows 11’s Resume feature may finally matter for Android users. Microsoft is outlining broader support for third party apps, which could make it easier to continue tasks on your PC with fewer dead ends. Read more ›
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Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is still trucking along, and with an ambitious 2026 roadmap to boot, while development on the third game continues. More shocking, though, is the apparent tease that The Division 1 is making a return for its 10th anniversary. Read more Read more ›
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High school teachers say that teaching capitalism has become increasingly politicized, with students drawn to figures like Zohran Mamdani and AOC. Read more ›
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The Motorola Moto G Power (2026) launched just last week – it’s a $300 phone with an IP69 rating and a MIL-STD-810H compliant design. It has a 6.8” LCD and is powered by the Dimensity 6300 paired with expandable storage, plus a 5,200mAh battery with 30W wired and 15W wireless charging. If you ever need to repair the latest G Power model, you may want to consult this disassembly video... Read more ›
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As competing narratives and interpretations of viral videos muddy the investigations of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis last week, there’s at least one thing that can’t be denied: the Department of Homeland Security’s operations in American cities are a sharp departure from how its […] Read more ›
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SoFi CEO Anthony Noto said that enacting Trump's credit card interest cap would cause a void in the industry that could be filled by personal loans. Read more ›
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Malaysia and Indonesia are the first countries to block Grok, claiming that X’s chatbot does not have sufficient safeguards in place to prevent explicit AI-generated deepfakes of women and children from being created and disseminated on X. Indonesia temporarily blocked access to Grok on Saturday, as did Malaysia on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, UK media regulator Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety... Read more ›
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At some point today, EA will turn the Anthem servers off, rendering BioWare's multiplayer online shooter inaccessible and unplayable, presumably forever. And fond farewells have already started to pour in. Read more Read more ›
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Powell described the move as a part of a broader effort to pressure the central bank on monetary policy. Read more ›
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Miles Guo was convicted of fraud. Now his formerly luxurious lifestyle is being broken down and sold for parts in bankruptcy court. Read more ›
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167 software engineers responded to Business Insider's vibe-coding survey. Over 45% reported "keeping up" with AI tools. Almost 17% feel behind. Read more ›
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A tech CEO put together a dream board of directors with AI representing famous leaders. Here's how he uses it. Read more ›
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McKinsey & Company CEO Bob Sternfels says he wants every employee working alongside an AI agent within a year and a half. Read more ›
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The NIMA Gluten Sensor is 99% accurate at detecting gluten in your food. All it takes is three minutes. Read more ›
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When Cyberpunk 2077 was sort of relaunched with its 2.0 update and the Phantom Liberty expansion, female V took over as the face of the game. More than two years later, and with the RPG still selling well and attracting new players, that hasn't changed. Read more Read more ›
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The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, according to two people involved in the communication, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets. The instruction came roughly a month after President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200s to China, marking the biggest rollback of... Read more ›
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LMArena, a startup that operates a widely cited ranking of AI models based on their performance, has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion, including the new money, according to the company. That’s nearly triple the valuation of its seed funding round, announced in May 2025. The funding round, co-led by existing investors Felicis and the University of California’s investment arm, will help the company pay for computing... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer. In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features are in a trial phase with a subset of paid users for now. (See our... Read more ›
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OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer that’s building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more ›
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Amazon has started laying the groundwork to open a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, according to planning documents. That marks a return to similar plans for a Target-like store that Amazon shelved a few years ago. In recent weeks, Amazon has sought approval from the village of ... Read more ›
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Venezuela-focused stablecoin startup Kontigo said it will repay the $340,000 that was stolen from more than 1,000 of its customers in a hack, according to a statement the company issued on Monday. In a statement published to X, Kontigo said it detected unauthorized access that affected some ... Read more ›
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Lambda, an upstart cloud provider that rents out Nvidia AI chips—and whose biggest customer was recently Nvidia itself—is trying to raise at least $350 million before a potential initial public offering this year, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Mubadala Capital, which manages money for the United Arab Emirates government and other investors, is in talks to lead the funding round, which is structured to sell stock to... Read more ›
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In its push to make ChatGPT a “personal super assistant” and stay ahead of rivals, OpenAI is developing new features that aim to turn the chatbot into a personal health hub. One feature would let people use ChatGPT to analyze data contained in their personal health apps and wearable devices, such as an Oura ring, Apple Watch or Whoop bracelet, according to two people who have seen designs for the... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must feel like a child whose parents are perpetually at war. Weeks after he glimpsed a chance to resume sales of AI chips to China—thanks to approval from President Donald Trump—China has said, “Not so fast.” As our Hong Kong reporter Qianer Liu scooped today, the Chinese government has asked local tech companies to temporarily halt any plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 chips. China may yet... Read more ›
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It seems like these days, every big e-commerce and AI company is racing to figure out how to make AI agents that can shop just like a human. In the case of Amazon, the company’s version of AI-powered shopping is becoming widespread enough to step on other retailers’ toes—evidence that it’s pulling ahead in the nascent market.Earlier this week, Amazon sparked blowback from some small retailers that noticed they were... Read more ›
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