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Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. Read more ›
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OpenAI has launched Prism, a free scientific research app that aims to do for scientific writing what coding agents did for programming. Engadget reports: Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For the uninitiated, LaTeX is a typesetting system for formatting scientific documents and journals. Nearly the entire scientific community relies on LaTeX, but it can make some tasks, such as drawing... Read more ›
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The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we're supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it's my job to coordinate visuals for this website, I locked myself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of […] Read more ›
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Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere. Read more ›
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Elon Musk hurled insults at Vinod Khosla after the VC founder accused Musk of promoting racism and urged some of Musk's employees to quit. Read more ›
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Two Trinidadian nationals were said to be among six people killed by a US strike. The lawsuit characterized the strike as 'unlawful.' Read more ›
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Thanks to a retailer listing in Italy, we now have purported pricing for the upcoming Moto G17, Moto G77, and Motorola Edge 70 Fusion. The G17 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is listed for €294.90. The G77 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is listed at €376.89, and the Edge 70 Fusion with the same RAM/storage amount as the other two will apparently go for... Read more ›
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Andrew Volk owns a restaurant in Portland, Maine. The city has seen an increased ICE presence, and he says it's already dampening the local business. Read more ›
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Former Citi managing director Edward Gene Smith pleaded guilty to luring women to New York so that he could drug and sexually assault them. Read more ›
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The American Academy of Pediatrics and 12 other medical groups are recommending the same childhood shots once endorsed by the CDC. Read more ›
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Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s […] Read more ›
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Gov. Greg Abbott wrote that he wanted to ensure that jobs "funded with taxpayer dollars" are "filled by Texans first." Read more ›
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Citigroup has rolled out mandatory AI training for all 175,000 of its employees across 80 locations worldwide, a sweeping initiative that CEO Jane Fraser describes as helping workers "reinvent themselves" before the technology permanently alters what they do for a living. The $205 billion bank sent out an internal memo last year requiring staffers to learn prompting skills specifically. Fraser told the Washington Post at Davos that AI "will change... Read more ›
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In recent years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been systematically purging his country’s senior military leaders, part of an overall campaign that has meted out punishment to some 200,000 officials since he took power. It’s officially an anti-corruption program but also, most believe, an effort to consolidate power over China’s ruling Communist Party. Hundreds of […] Read more ›
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Apple today announced that it has renewed "Shrinking" for a fourth season, just ahead of the beloved comedy series returning for a third season tonight. "Shrinking" follows a grieving therapist (Jason Segel) who starts to be unconventionally candid with his clients. Harrison Ford plays Segel's mentor, Dr. Paul Rhoades, and other cast members include Christa Miller and Jessica Williams. Guest stars in the third season will include Cobie Smulders, Michael... Read more ›
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Just a year into his second term, Donald Trump’s new, militarized immigration force is on full display. Agents in masks and plate carriers are seemingly everywhere, first in Chicago last year and now in Minneapolis, where they have killed two US citizens and terrorized uncounted more. Some of that is because of a change in […] Read more ›
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"CBS Mornings" star Gayle King gave support for Bari Weiss in a town hall and said she's "very proud" of the work CBS News is doing. Read more ›
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At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors. Read more ›
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TikTok’s U.S. business may be about to take off. The scheduled completion this week of TikTok’s sale of its U.S. data security arm to a joint venture ends years of uncertainty about its future in the U.S. And the video app maker is now redoubling its efforts to build a much bigger e-commerce business in the U.S., in a new challenge to Amazon. Read more ›
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China is letting AI and semiconductor startups go public at a furious pace. Since December, two developers of large language models and four designers of graphics processing units have listed on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai, raising a total of over $4 billion. At least two more are in the pipeline. Kunlunxin, the chip arm of Baidu, is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in Hong Kong,... Read more ›
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In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by President Donald Trump. Soon after the event, the Brockmans posted pictures of themselves posing with Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and his... Read more ›
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Tammy Savage, a former Microsoft general manager; Gerry Campbell, a longtime search executive who has worked at AOL and Alta Vista; and John Abowd, a professor emeritus of economics, statistics and data science at Cornell University were named in a filing from the Department of Justice on ... Read more ›
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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, will transition out of leading product and engineering for OpenAI’s business of selling to other enterprises but... Read more ›
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Last fall, Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the company’s combined software and AI groups. Federighi said he was excited about deeper collaboration between his software team and Apple’s AI group. But then came Federighi’s criticism. He added that he liked moving fast and feeling the “wind at his back,” but in recent years he had felt Apple hadn’t been moving as quickly... Read more ›
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OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the people said. OpenAI is asking that small pool of advertisers for less than $1 million in spending commitments... Read more ›
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Brex’s $5.15 billion agreement to sell to Capital One isn’t the kind of exit employees or investors would have dreamed of four years ago, when it was valued privately at $12.3 billion. But it appears to be a good enough ending to the corporate credit card startup’s run as a private company. For one, the half-cash, half-stock deal gives Brex shareholders the kind of instant payday another private round or... Read more ›
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Clear your schedule on Wednesday afternoon. Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Tesla are each reporting their December-quarter earnings after the market closes that day. Tesla is its own thing—we have a sense of what’s coming because it already released vehicle delivery numbers, signaling that revenue will drop. But Microsoft and Meta will be important to track, as their results should give us an update on AI development spending and—at least in... Read more ›
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PayPal said Thursday it would acquire the e-commerce startup Cymbio, which makes software that helps brands make their product catalogs available to AI search apps and agents. The deal is aimed at helping PayPal quickly build up more features to help merchants make sales through AI chatbots like ... Read more ›
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