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Even as Anthropic and OpenAI unnerve stock market investors with business-focused AI products that could undermine existing enterprise software firms, the software incumbents are trying to catch up. Companies ranging from Microsoft to ServiceNow and Snowflake have come out with products designed to help customers develop AI agents, sometimes called digital co-workers, that can use a variety of enterprise apps just as humans do.
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Netflix, Disney, and Paramount are turning to short-form video as YouTube and TikTok take viewership time. But these quick clips aren't a cure-all. Read more ›
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Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was the chair of DP World, the firm that operates Dubai's major ports, since 2007, and its CEO since 2016. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to extract results from leading US AI models to train the next generation of its breakthrough R1 chatbot, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. In the memo, sent Thursday to the House Select Committee on China, OpenAI said that DeepSeek had used so-called distillation techniques... Read more ›
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The Ferdinand Magellan, an armored train car, was used by US presidents before Air Force One. It has bulletproof glass and multiple guest rooms. Read more ›
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Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. Last week, we spoke to executives from the company for the first time, and this week we're back with more details on how it began. Trump Mobile may bear the US president's name, but he didn't come up with the idea, and […] Read more ›
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google raised capex plans to breathtaking new levels. That suggests knowledge that outsiders don't have, Bernard Golden writes. Read more ›
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Wendy's is shrinking its US footprint by hundreds of locations as the burger chain struggles with declining sales and profitability. Read more ›
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We sat in a parking lot and waited. We watched, knowing we were being watched in return. Two men, masked and presumably armed, idled in a gray SUV. "They're all on this fucking street now," Lety, a lifelong resident of the Minnesota suburbs, told me. ICE had been spotted at a gas station and a […] Read more ›
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"where are you? Are you ok , I loved the torture video," reads one email, allegedly sent by Jeffrey Epstein in 2009. The reply, from a redacted address, states: "I am in china I will be in the US 2nd week of may." Her face hovering over a screenshot of the exchange, a TikTok creator […] Read more ›
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These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace. Read more ›
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Silence. Two crouched shapes silhouetted in the moonlight, breath held tight as somethign stirs. A torch beam slices through the shadows; strange grasping limbs slide into view; tension mounts, hearts pound, and then suddenly a voice cuts in, "Hang on a minute, I'm just gonna run to the loo." Read more Read more ›
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One Air Force base's new mandated greetings for security personnel saw backlash, with troops and civilian workers calling them 'stupid.' Read more ›
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Hackers from Russian, China, India, North Korea, and elsewhere are using Google's Gemini AI to augment their attacks, Google says. From generating phishing lures, to translating text, coding, and vulnerability testing, Gemini is a core component of their hack attempts. Read more ›
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Despite its supremely sleek design, the iPhone Air actually has a pretty respectable battery life, lasting for somewhere in the region of 27 hours if you’re continuously streaming video. But you’re still going to be wary of it dying on you if you’re on a trip or just having a particularly screen-heavy day. That’s where Apple’s iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack comes in, and it’s currently on sale for $79.... Read more ›
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A little over a year into his second presidency, President Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying. Back in January 2025, if you asked a liberal what the new Trump administration would do in the worst case scenario, they would probably have […] Read more ›
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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are still seven months away, an analyst has revealed five new features the devices will allegedly have. Rumored color options for the iPhone 18 Pro models In a research note with investment firm GF Securities on Thursday, analyst Jeff Pu outlined the following upgrades for the iPhone 18 Pro models: Smaller Dynamic Island: It has been rumored that Face ID's... Read more ›
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NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice. Read more ›
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EssilorLuxottica and Meta Platforms sold more than 7 million smart glasses in 2025, Essilor reported on Wednesday, a huge improvement on 2024. Essilor had reported a year ago that only 2 million smart glasses had been sold since the product was launched in 2023. EssilorLuxottica’s disclosure was ... Read more ›
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Zhipu, one of China’s prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter, a popular AI model marketplace for developers. Pony Alpha, a new open-source LLM launched on OpenRouter a few days ago, is Zhipu’s new model, known as GLM-5, ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk has overhauled xAI’s leadership structure following its merger with SpaceX and as he pressures the AI firm to accelerate progress on Grok AI models, The Information’s latest org chart for the combined company shows. The changes coincide with an exodus of senior leaders. The xAI reorg has elevated a handful of technical leaders who now report directly to Musk, including co-founder Guodong Zhang, who leads teams working on... Read more ›
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Even as Anthropic and OpenAI unnerve stock market investors with business-focused AI products that could undermine existing enterprise software firms, the software incumbents are trying to catch up. Companies ranging from Microsoft to ServiceNow and Snowflake have come out with products designed to help customers develop AI agents, sometimes called digital co-workers, that can use a variety of enterprise apps just as humans do. But that’s not all. As the... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Parties, PR and Epstein—inside investor Masha Bucher’s charmed ascendance• Artificial Intelligence: OpenClaw, agents and a mania within a mania • Power and Influence: How the architect behind California’s billionaires tax became tech’s villain• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Two Guys, Five Rings” and “The Rest Is History: Modern Olympics,” “Exiles” and “Rental Family”The Justice Department’s recent release of 3.5 million documents Read more ›
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Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial services. Founded in 2018, Step Mobile runs an app that offers a federally insured bank account without fees and a secured Visa card that helps individuals establish credit... Read more ›
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X recently hit $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue from selling subscriptions, head of product Nikita Bier said in an xAI all-hands meeting on Tuesday. The subscriptions X sells include Basic, Premium and Premium+ plans that range from $3 to $40 per month. The social media site, formerly ... Read more ›
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Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money. The good news is that the big tech companies have the capacity to each borrow hundreds of billions more money than they currently... Read more ›
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Around the time he filed the billionaire tax proposal that has shaken up the tech world and ignited a debate about wealth taxes nationwide, Dave Regan, president of the California-based union behind the effort, convened a group of fellow labor leaders to solicit their thoughts. In a videoconference, he told the group he had a 30-day period to finalize the measure, which would assess a one-time, 5% tax on the... Read more ›
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For years, investors and founders have told me that AI which talks and listens the way humans do is on the cusp of a breakout moment. We’re still not there.Audio models are still lagging behind their text-based brethren in terms of intelligence. If you ask an audio model like the ChatGPT voice assistant a tough math question, for instance, it’s much more likely to get it wrong than a text-based... Read more ›
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