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Here’s a question: How much are big tech companies cutting back on sending money to shareholders as they ramp up their AI development spending? It’s a good time to ask: On Friday, Oracle is due to pay out its latest quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share. That will amount to $1.4 billion going out the door, which Oracle can ill afford. After all, the software and cloud firm burned through $10 billion in cash in the second quarter, thanks to a big increase in capital expenditures related to its AI cloud expa
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom was denied entry to an event at Davos, according to posts he made on social media. Read more ›
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The iQOO 15 Ultra is launching soon and it's rumored to boast the biggest active cooling fan ever put into a smartphone. Today the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo has shared the image you can see below, showing a schematic of the device and the fan. The air intake for the fan is positioned at the bottom of the camera island, while the air outlet... Read more ›
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Canada’s prime minister delivered a blistering and remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum this week, essentially declaring the end of the world as you and I have known it. Since World […] Read more ›
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The great Greenland war of 2026 appears to be on hold for the moment. This week’s World Economic Forum in Davos has been largely overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s demand that the US take control of the Danish territory of Greenland, which set off a rapidly escalating crisis. Heading into the conference, Trump threatened to […] Read more ›
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alternative_right quotes a report from The Intercept: Federal prosecutors on January 9 charged Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, an IT specialist for an unnamed government contractor, with "the offense of unlawful retention of national defense information," according to an FBI affidavit (PDF). The case attracted national attention after federal agents investigating Perez-Lugones searched the home of a Washington Post reporter. But overlooked so far in the media coverage is the fact that... Read more ›
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"I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. 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 is once again moving markets — and being moved by them in turn. What happened? On Wednesday afternoon, the president said in a […] Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses AI's wider impact and what it needs to do to not be a bubble. Read more ›
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Worried about your job? Well, 'largest infrastructure buildout in human history' will require more plumbers, Huang says. Read more ›
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The Big Four firm is giving its US employees a new job title, according to an internal presentation seen by Business Insider. Read more ›
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WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city. Read more ›
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According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is reportedly planning a major Siri overhaul in iOS 27 and macOS 27 where the current assistant interface will be replaced with a deeply integrated, ChatGPT-style chatbot experience. "Users will be able to summon the new service the same way they open Siri now, by speaking the 'Siri' command or holding down the side button on their iPhone or iPad," says Gurman. "More significantly,... Read more ›
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The Supreme Court’s Republican majority ordinarily believe that President Donald Trump is allowed to fire virtually anyone who works for a federal agency. Last July, for example, they permitted the Trump administration to fire nearly half of the Department of Education’s employees. In May, however, the Court also signaled that the Federal Reserve is special. […] Read more ›
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Rolex and Swiss business leaders influenced President Donald Trump's decision to lower tariffs. Read more ›
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Lindsay Kaplan, a former marketing exec and founder of Chief, is joining consumer VC fund Bullish as a venture partner. Read more ›
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Nicholas Galitzine stars as He-Man in the upcoming movie, directed by Travis Knight. Read more ›
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The excitement is building as NASA works toward launching its first crewed lunar flight in more than five decades. The Artemis II mission, which will take four astronauts on a 10-day voyage around the moon, could lift off as early as February 6. NASA has just released a cinematic trailer for the highly anticipated mission. ... Read more ›
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As we've previously lamented, one of Bluetooth's best modern features isn't being embraced by the tech world, but that's changing. Sennheiser has announced a new pair of wireless headphones and a transmitter designed for private TV watching that both use a Bluetooth feature called Auracast. Like tuning into a radio station broadcast from a tower, […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump briefly addressed high housing costs and interest rates in his Davos speech but did not get into specifics. Read more ›
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AI-powered shopping has the potential to be a big boost to Amazon’s retail business, CEO Andy Jassy said on Tuesday. And while Amazon already has its own shopping chatbot, it is also looking for ways to partner with other companies to run their chatbots on its site. In an interview with The Information’s Jessica Lessin at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Jassy noted that with many AI-powered shopping tools,... Read more ›
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AI startups talk a lot these days about how their products will be revolutionary by automating white collar work. But it’s rarer to hear messy stories about the hiccups AI startups face when trying to build such products for businesses, or the awkward situations that can arise when they roll out their own technology internally. That makes a recent podcast with an xAI engineer—who left the company shortly after it... Read more ›
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Motive Technologies, a seller of AI-powered dashcams to trucking companies, is delaying the marketing of its initial public offering, which was supposed to begin on Monday, three people close to the company said. It could delay its roadshow another week, two of the people said. They didn’t describe the exact reasons, but one person called it a “technical issue” rather than a case of Motive pulling the offering for good.... Read more ›
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In November, a young robotics startup called Gradient began interviewing applicants for an engineering internship at the Palo Alto, Calif.–based company. But after talking to a half-dozen of them, the startup decided to ditch its plan to add interns. Why exactly? “Not worth our time,” said J.X. Mo, 23, Gradient’s co-founder. While some of the applicants had seemed promising, “none of them would be cracked enough for us to hire... Read more ›
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Fintech startup Checkbook began with the promise to help banks eliminate paper checks and transformed itself into an international payments company that leveraged a relationship with JPMorgan Chase to give all manner of customers access to the U.S. financial system. JPMorgan recently told Checkbook it was winding down its relationship with the firm rather than face the regulatory risks associated with handling some of those customers, which included Venezuelan crypto... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ job cuts at its Reality Labs division this past week, where it let go about 10% of the unit, were the first of what could be another wave of layoffs at big tech companies this year. But that doesn’t mean big tech workforces are going to shrink much, if at all. If history is any guide, future layoffs will only result in temporary reductions in the workforces of... Read more ›
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Netflix is converting its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to make it all cash, but at the same $27.75 a share level that the companies agreed in early December, both companies said Tuesday. The revised offer reflects pressure from bidder Paramount Skydance, which is offering $30 a share for all ... Read more ›
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Over the past few years deep tech investing has taken on a new shine, as companies such as Waymo, SpaceX and Anduril turn technical breakthroughs in research-heavy fields like autonomous driving, rockets and defense tech into commercial businesses. Now one emerging investment fund wants to back new deep tech startups with a twist: The startups’ founders are likely to either be in Israel or have roots there while they operate... Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday announced a record capital expenditure between $52 billion and $56 billion for 2026, as it tries to ease the capacity constraint on its production facilities. About 70% to 80% of the spending will go to manufacturing equipment for ... Read more ›
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Google’s improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company’s top line. Over the past year, Google’s business selling access to its Gemini AI models has skyrocketed, reflecting the improving quality of those models, according to three people with knowledge of Gemini’s sales. That’s likely to lift revenue from Google Cloud’s core business of server sales, as money customers spend on AI tends to lead to additional spending on... Read more ›
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