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Wow. Wednesday was not a fun day, particularly if you’re a Verizon customer (guilty!), thanks to a widespread cellular phone outage that hit many of its subscribers for much of the day. It also wasn’t fun for tech investors as stocks sold off across the board. What wasn’t uniform, though, was the severity of the selling. Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms each dropped about 2.4%, while Alphabet, nowadays everyone’s favorite tech company, only lost 0.04% of its value. Apple was also relatively better off,.
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Fundraising campaigns for a Ford employee who was suspended after shouting at President Trump have raised hundreds of thousands. Read more ›
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The autoworker called the president a "pedophile protector," a reference to his suppression of the Epstein files. Read more ›
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There's this analog device called a badge that has worked wonders for generations, maybe consider that too? Read more ›
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Grok will no longer be allowed to edit photos of real people to show them in sexualized or revealing clothing. Read more ›
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When Renee Good was shot by an ICE officer last week in Minnesota, it brought attention to the robust effort to combat US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Twin Cities. Residents of Minneapolis and the surrounding areas are joining decentralized networks of activists who are committed to alerting their neighbors to ICE presence on […] Read more ›
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Irem Sumer and her four friends have spent two years working on "Match Valley." Now they've got millions of dollars in backing from Silicon Valley. Read more ›
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Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T customers all reported service problems starting midday on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Verizon has acknowledged network problems. Read more ›
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Progressives have long argued that Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is a fundamentally fascistic enterprise. In their telling, the president’s goal is not merely to enforce America’s borders but to purify its blood — and unleash state violence against anyone who resists his campaign of ethnic cleansing. Of course, there’s nothing new about the left deriding […] Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the high-profile startup cofounded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, has removed Barret Zoph, its chief technology officer, according to a person with knowledge of the change. Murati confirmed Zoph’s departure in a post on X and said Soumith Chintala, ... Read more ›
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Digg is back, relaunched by its original founder and the co-founder of its biggest competitor Reddit. Read more ›
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The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened. Read more ›
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Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported on Tuesday by The Telegraph, as Grok's responses to prompts like "put her in a bikini" became censored. But in tests of the feature […] Read more ›
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Up to 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed every month, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said this week. Read more ›
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We're two years divorced from Todd Phillips' 'Joker' sequel, and the studio is still claiming the disappointing DC film was merely misunderstood. Read more ›
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In a statement, Verizon acknowledged that its customers were impacted by a major disruption on Wednesday afternoon. Read more ›
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A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted. Read more ›
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Bandcamp has announced a ban on music made wholly or substantially by generative AI, aiming to protect human creativity and prohibit AI impersonation of artists. Here's what the music platform had to say: ... Something that always strikes us as we put together a roundup like this is the sheer quantity of human creativity and passion that artists express on Bandcamp every single day. The fact that Bandcamp is home... 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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Last summer, a manager at startup Motive Technologies sent an urgent Slack message to 400 employees based in Pakistan. “WE HAVE A PROBLEM,” it said in all caps. Motive sells AI-powered dashcams that allow trucking companies to monitor drivers and send alerts about crashes and other safety issues. In August, the dashcams recorded a string of collisions, but customers never received the alerts. 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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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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One month before Google paid $4.8 billion for Intersect Power, the tech giant had a message for federal energy regulators: They should fast-track approvals for data centers that supply some of their own power. Intersect does just that, producing power for data centers to allow them to operate without relying entirely on the grid. Google’s purchase of Intersect is the first step by a major tech company to acquire a... Read more ›
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Robinhood and Coinbase are two of the most popular trading apps, historically concentrating on equities and crypto, respectively. But more and more, they’re competing head to head. Coinbase is launching stock trading, while Robinhood is expanding in crypto. Both are also betting big on prediction markets. Yet as far as stock performance goes, the two companies couldn’t look more different. Robinhood’s shares rose 186% last year, while Coinbase’s fell 12%.... Read more ›
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BitGo, a crypto custody firm, said Monday it’s launching its initial public offering, seeking to raise as much as $201 million at a valuation of up to $1.96 billion. The company began pitching the shares to investors today, meaning they will likely start trading within the next two weeks. BitGo ... 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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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is expected to launch its next-generation AI model that features strong coding capabilities in the coming weeks, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plan. The new model, V4, is a successor to the V3 model DeepSeek released in December 2024. Initial tests done by DeepSeek employees based on the company’s internal benchmarks showed that it outperformed existing models, such as Anthropic’s Claude and... Read more ›
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