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Google’s latest AI pitch to retailers is simple: Google isn’t planning to take a cut of purchases made through its Gemini AI chatbot and search results.
Instead, it plans to make money from its AI shopping push by selling a new type of ads to retailers. That approach is opposite that of OpenAI, which announced checkouts inside ChatGPT in September and says it will take a cut of sales but isn’t yet selling chatbot ads.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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U.K. fiber network provider Openreach used startup firm Lightsonic's technology to detect leaks in Affinity Water's service area, helping save over 2 million liters of drinking water daily. Read more ›
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The Centre has eased the minimum public shareholding requirement for companies planning to go public, allowing large firms to offer… Read more ›
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At 28, I still lived at home and couldn't save for a down payment or for rent. I figured starting my own business in Thailand was a better option. Read more ›
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Organizations routinely promote the performance of certainty over genuine competence, rewarding anxiety-driven decisiveness while filtering out the honest, careful thinking they claim to want. The cost is both organizational and deeply personal. Read more ›
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For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to… Read more ›
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Some European retailers have stopped selling certain headphones after an EU-funded study found that they contained hormone-disrupting chemicals. The study included leading brands such as Apple, Beats, Samsung, Bose, JBL, and Sennheiser. Online stores Bol.com, Coolblue, and Mediamarkt didn't respond to inquiries from The Verge about which headphones they pulled, but local news outlets report […] Read more ›
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Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles? Read more ›
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Experts predict that we could see an increase in EV adoption as gas prices continue to increase. Read more ›
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They're in their 80s and have no lawyer. That's not stopping two sisters from a spirited battle to reclaim their Gilded Age Manhattan townhouse. Read more ›
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A major change is underway at the top of the Department of Homeland Security. In the first Cabinet shakeup of his second term, President Donald Trump has tapped Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) to take the lead on his “mass deportation” goals. The change comes after Kristi Noem was fired from her position as Homeland […] Read more ›
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There's not much else groundbreaking about the company's latest flagship, but the built-in privacy display works well without much trade-off. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. Top executives... Read more ›
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Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of intriguing games arrived this week, including a mobile port of one of the most absorbing things I’ve played in years and two completely different titles with the same name. Let’s get things started with a look at a few projects that were featured in the latest edition of the Future Games Show.Hyperwired (from... Read more ›
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Travis Kalanick said he has relocated to Texas as of December 2025, joining a growing list of tech billionaires who have flocked to the state. Read more ›
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You might not know this, but Amazon Prime Video actually has a higher-tier subscription, similar to Netflix, which offers an ad-free experience. Most people just get Prime Video as part of their Amazon Prime subscription. Well, this is one tier above that and costs extra - $4.99 a month, up from $2.99 after this new price hike. The service also has a new name – Prime Video Ultra. It’s not... Read more ›
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Most people use a Fire TV Stick only for streaming, but the device includes several lesser-known features that can improve your viewing experience. Read more ›
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Alphabet granted CEO Sundar Pichai new stock awards with a potential value of $686 million, the company said in a securities filing on Friday, citing his “strong performance” in the top job. It was the largest series of grants Pichai has received since he became CEO of Google in 2015. The ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Anne Wojcicki’s plan to revive 23andMe• News Analysis: The week Anthropic went to war with OpenAI and the Pentagon• The Information Events: Tennis enters the analytics era at our Indian Wells retreat• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Data,” “A Scandal in Königsberg” and “Paradise”No one in tech has ever gotten very far by running around talking about what they can’t... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s robotics chief said Saturday that she was leaving OpenAI over its negotiations with the Department of Defense. “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got,” Caitlin ... Read more ›
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Kalshi was sued by users for failing to pay $54 million to people who bet that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office before March 1, after he was killed during the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes last month. After Khamenei’s death, Kalshi said it couldn’t pay out any ... Read more ›
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The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments, crimping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies. Countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers. Local firms are developing the projects, along with U.S. companies such as xAI, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and Google, which are... Read more ›
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is close to achieving billionaire status, thanks to his generous stock compensation—and he’s only likely to get richer. Alphabet revealed in a securities filing late Friday that it had awarded him several new grants of stock, to vest over the next three years, which could potentially be worth nearly $700 million. We say “potentially” because he’ll only get that much stock if Alphabet shares outperform most... Read more ›
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The U.S. government is working on rules that would require American approval for all exports of AI chips, and on the conditions of stringent security promises and “matching” investments in American AI infrastructure, Bloomberg reported. The move would give Washington extensive control over how ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is likely at least six months away from going public, and possibly longer. But as the company takes steps toward an initial public offering, investment banks trying to get a piece of the business are contacting public market investors to gauge how they’re thinking about OpenAI’s prospects as a public company, said one person who has been on the receiving end of the outreach. The mood is mixed. Investors... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s lawyers probably spent the weekend preparing a lawsuit the company said it would file against the Department of Defense for designating the Claude AI maker as a “supply chain risk” and cutting off commercial ties to “protect national security.” The designation followed Anthropic’s request for special assurances its tech wouldn’t be used for fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. (Read a full account of the affair here.)The Anthropic... Read more ›
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Microsoft will start selling a new subscription bundle for businesses that combines its Office 365 software with its Copilot AI chatbot for the first time starting in May, the company said Monday. The launch reflects Microsoft’s effort to use AI products to wring more revenue out of its existing ... Read more ›
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