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Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group is connecting its Qwen AI app with the company’s e-commerce, online travel and payment platforms, in a major upgrade that enables the chatbot to serve as an agent helping users with real-life tasks like ordering food online and booking trips. The upgrade allows ...
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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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The first foldable from Apple, tentatively called the iPhone Fold, is rumored to launch later this year alongside the iPhone 18 Pro series. A new leak now sheds light on its construction and the materials Apple may be using. According to the leak, Apple’s foldable iPhone will use a hinge crafted from a material known as liquid metal. The rumor also suggests Apple has been experimenting with this material for... 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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Western sanctions and weak oil prices are already squeezing Russia's coffers, pressuring funds used to sustain the war and the broader economy. Read more ›
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The UK government has awarded guaranteed electricity prices to offshore wind projects totaling 8.4 GW in a bid to revive wind development, attract nearly $30 billion in private investment, and stabilize energy costs. The New York Times reports: On Wednesday, the British government said that it would provide guaranteed electricity prices for a group of wind farms off England, Scotland and Wales that would, once built, provide power for 12... Read more ›
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Lausanne-based AlphaLum today announced the close of its €3.6 million (CHF 3.4 million) Seed financing round to scale its optics and sensing platform for smart glasses. The round was led by Vsquared Ventures. With this funding, the Swiss startup aims to accelerate its transition from R&D to becoming a technology supplier for smart glasses and ... Read more ›
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The tariff will cover hardware central to the AI boom like Nvidia's H200 processor and AMD's MI325X chips, with some exemptions. 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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The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened. Read more ›
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Semiconductor levies are designed to enact a deal Donald Trump cut with chipmakers to allow shipments of AI processors 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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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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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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Verizon says it's working to restore service. But if your Verizon device still shows "SOS" instead of service bars, you're affected by today's outage. 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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In a new research paper published this week, DeepSeek’s founder and researchers proposed a new technique that makes AI models more efficient by allowing them to retrieve simple factual information without relying on a compute-intensive process. The technique, called Engram, enables AI models to ... 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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