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Google’s parent Alphabet on Wednesday passed Apple in market capitalization to become the second most valuable company in the world, worth $3.885 trillion, compared to Apple’s value of $3.846 trillion. Nvidia, worth $4.595 trillion, is far and away the most valuable firm. Google shares have been ...
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Justices Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas argued that Trump's tariffs were lawful and that reversing them could get messy. Read more ›
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The president insisted he'll find other ways to make the tariffs that have rocked the tech industry happen. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Friday after Anthropic PBC introduced a new security feature into its Claude AI model. Crowdstrike Holdings was the among the biggest decliners, falling as much as 6.5%, while Cloudflare slumped more than 6%. Meanwhile, Zscaler dropped 3.5%, SailPoint shed 6.8%, and Okta declined 5.7%. The Global X Cybersecurity ETF fell as much as 3.8%, extending its... Read more ›
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The landmark 6-3 ruling knocks down a load-bearing beam of Trump's economic agenda. Read more ›
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The process for IEEPA tariff refunds will likely go through the Court of International Trade. Already, over 1,000 lawsuits are pending. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump’s tariffs are unlawful, the Supreme Court said on Friday. What just happened? In a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down the sprawling tariffs […] Read more ›
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Despite Friday's SCOTUS ruling, many tariffs affecting the auto industry will remain. So will the other dynamics that have led to today's historically high car prices. Read more ›
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Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security's proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation. Read more ›
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A new interview with the 'Star Wars' series creator digs deep into its political parallels. Read more ›
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Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has just announced he's leaving the company after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 at Microsoft in total. His replacement: Asha Sharma, formerly head of development for Microsoft's AI enterprise teams. Before that, she was COO of Instacart for three years, and spent four at Meta in charge of […] Read more ›
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The Supreme Court fast-tracked a case over whether President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs. Read more ›
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In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy so far has been to speak loudly and carry a big stick. On Friday, the Supreme Court took away his favorite stick. From Cuba, to China, to Greenland, it’s not an exaggeration to say that tariffs are the default foreign policy tool of the second Trump administration. He […] Read more ›
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The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Learning Resources v. Trump on Friday, with a total of six justices concluding that a wide range of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are illegal. Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican, wrote the opinion. At least some of his opinion was joined by five other […] Read more ›
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And don't worry, Eddie, Tom Hardy is expected to be involved in some way. Read more ›
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After nearly 40 years at Microsoft, Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving the company, along with Xbox president Sarah Bond. Spencer’s retirement was announced in a memo from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on February 20th, stating, “Last year, Phil Spencer made the decision to retire from the company, and since then […] Read more ›
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Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. Read more ›
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Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the software giant. Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft, in what is a major shakeup to the management of Xbox and Microsoft's gaming efforts. Asha Sharma, currently president of CoreAI product, is taking over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Microsoft CEO […] Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and intends to release it later this year with health-tracking features and a built-in Meta AI assistant.... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... Read more ›
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Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startup’s most optimistic recent forecasts. That’s not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue Anthropic generates if their customers buy its AI. And that’s a fast-growing source of revenue. Anthropic paid only about... Read more ›
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Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine users’ ... Read more ›
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Etsy saw its profit dip in the fourth quarter, even as revenue grew slightly, the company said Thursday, a day after the online marketplace said it would sell the Gen Z-focused clothing resale app Depop to rival eBay for $1.2 billion. Etsy reported revenue of $881.6 million, a 6.6% increase from ... Read more ›
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A new holy grail has emerged in the AI industry in recent months: continual learning, or the promise of AI that’s able to learn from real-world experience the way humans do, without having to undergo long formal training processes that require tons of computational power and data.And as you’d might expect with the rise of an ill-defined, buzzy term in the tech sector, investors are already telling me that they’re... Read more ›
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The Department of Homeland Security has begun ramping up its use of administrative subpoenas to obtain identifying information from major tech companies on anonymous social-media accounts that criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement or post about ICE agents’ locations. The New ... Read more ›
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Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that... Read more ›
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Defense tech startup Anduril is in talks to raise billions in new funding at a valuation of at least $60 billion including the new investment, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. The valuation would be roughly double the figure from its last private funding round in June. The funding would give the company more leeway to fund its first major weapons manufacturing facility and the development of... Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of War is considering ending its partnership with Anthropic over a dispute about how the startup’s AI model, Claude, can be used by the U.S. military, according to an Axios report. Defense officials have been pushing leading AI firms to allow military use of their tools for “ ... Read more ›
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