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Alibaba-backed AI startup Moonshot AI is closing a new funding round that values the Chinese startup at $4.8 billion, CNBC reported, citing two people familiar with the deal. The round comes just weeks after the company was priced at $4.3 ...
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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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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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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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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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Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, "explicitly separating" its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is positioning itself to compete with popular platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. "We're in a strong position to deliver synchronous social games at scale, thanks to our unique ability to connect those games with billions 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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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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Alibaba is turning up the heat in China’s AI race. On Monday, the e-commerce giant introduced Qwen 3.5, its latest large language model built for what it calls the “agentic AI era.” The company says the new model can complete complex ... Read more ›
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OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger has joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents, marking a major step in the company’s push toward autonomous AI systems. Sam Altman announced Sunday that Steinberger is coming aboard OpenAI to drive what he described as ... Read more ›
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California’s clean energy economy just pulled in another major foreign backer. Octopus Energy Generation is committing nearly $1 billion to California-based climate and energy projects, deepening its presence in the United States at a time when global capital is flowing into ... Read more ›
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NVIDIA just made every voice AI API a commodity with the launch of the new conversational AI model, PersonaPlex-7B. The open-source full-duplex model collapses ASR, LLM, and TTS into a single 7B system—shifting voice AI margins from APIs to GPUs. ... Read more ›
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If you still think Silicon Valley owns the future of robotics, China just made its counterargument in prime time. On February 16, 2026, during the annual Spring Festival Gala broadcast by China Media Group, humanoid robots stepped onto the country’s most-watched ... Read more ›
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Starting a hardware business feels alive. You build tangible solutions to everyday problems, and seeing your concept come to life brings joy unlike anything else. Still, beyond the rush of sketching prototypes or first builds, one key truth tends to ... Read more ›
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AI agents can write code, book flights, and draft legal memos. But ask them to execute long-running tasks across distributed systems without breaking, and the cracks start to show. That gap is where Temporal sees its opportunity. The San Francisco ... Read more ›
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