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For the past three years, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready appeared to have secured a second chance for the scrapbooking app to prove itself to Wall Street. All that evaporated on Thursday night, when weaker fourth-quarter ad revenue prompted a sell-off that drove shares down 17% to their lowest level since April 2020.
Even before the earnings report came out, Ready was racing to revive the company’s slowing ad business while also ensuring users don’t ditch Pinterest boards for AI chatbots. Since late January, Pin
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China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year -- making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes -- as the nation's own companies, once notorious for copying foreign designs and technology, find themselves on the defensive against a domestic counterfeiting epidemic fueled by excess factory capacity. The problem runs from knockoff "Lafufu" plush toys (cheap copies of Pop Mart's wildly popular Labubu dolls, which... Read more ›
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An IT employee reportedly attempted to destroy sensitive company data by drilling a hole through a SATA SSD before disposing of it. Read more ›
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A company most famous for toilets and bidets is seeing meteoric stock growth due to demand for its advanced ceramics products. Read more ›
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Thrive Capital said it has raised $10 billion in new funds, including $1 billion for early stage investments and $9 billion for growth stage. The New York-based firm is referring to these funds as “Thrive X,” double the $5 billion Thrive closed in August 2024, for its funds labeled “Thrive IX.” ... Read more ›
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Forum members discuss their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions. Read more ›
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The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Shein after French regulators found listings for "child-like sex dolls" on the retail platform last year. The investigation will assess whether the systems Shein is using to curb illegal product sales are compliant with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), according to the European Commission, including […] Read more ›
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Stephen Colbert has blasted CBS for banning him from airing his interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico. Read more ›
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The Dell XPS 14 is a significant improvement over previous revisions, with an attractive design and a physical function row on the keyboard. There are also solid speakers and long battery life on the 1080p version. But the low-travel keyboard takes some getting used to. Read more ›
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Crypto exchange says Marshall Beard, Dan Chen and Tyler Meade are departing effective immediately; Cameron Winklevoss to take on COO duties as board names interim finance and legal chiefs. Read more ›
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In the 1930s, a radical conservative faction almost pushed Finland into full authoritarianism. Called the Lapua movement, it was a far-right group of Finns who sought to overthrow the republic, marginalize communists, and install an authoritarian government. They managed to disrupt Finland’s political order through threats of violence and symbolic kidnappings, in which they would […] Read more ›
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Reactions have begun to come in from prominent media critics and observers about Anderson Cooper's exit from the show after nearly 20 years. Read more ›
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Robot vacuums are only worth it when they actually reduce the number of times you have to think about cleaning. A lot of models still need babysitting: empty the bin, refill the water, wash the mop, dry the pads, repeat. The Dreame L10s Ultra is built to cut that routine down dramatically. It’s $299.99 for ... Read more ›
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Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg has touted generative AI advances to its game engine that'll soon enable users to "prompt full casual games into existence" just by using natural language. Read more Read more ›
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The European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into low-cost fast fashion retailer Shein. EC officials are concerned about the sale of illegal products, including child sexual abuse material, as well as the potentially addictive design of its shopping experience. The Commission found fellow low-cost retailer Temu in violation of the Digital Services Act after a similar investigation last year. The probe is being opened under the Digital Services Act,... Read more ›
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Samsung phones could get better at vlogging, recording postcasts, and other audio-related endeavors. Read more ›
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The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic representative from Texas. During his opening monologue on Monday night, Colbert says the network's lawyers told him in "no uncertain terms" that he couldn't have Talarico on the show, forcing him to post the interview on […] Read more ›
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How to watch Champions League for free. Live stream Qarabag vs. Newcastle in the Champions League for free. Read more ›
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I love hosting and serving desserts. My favorite recipe for chocolate cake (and buttercream) is from Joanna Gaines. The star ingredient is cola. Read more ›
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Score 20% off at Newegg on a Gigabyte B850 Aorus Elite Wifi 7 + 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6400 bundle—under $505 for AMD AM5 support, Wi-Fi 7, PCIe 5.0 M.2/slot, and eye-catching RGB. 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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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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Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... 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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The Department of Homeland Security has begun ramping up its use of administrative subpoenas to obtain identifying information from major tech companies on anonymous social-media accounts that criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement or post about ICE agents’ locations. The New ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to add a facial recognition feature called “Name Tag” to its smart glasses as early as this year, The New York Times reported. The article confirms a report in The Information from last May that said Meta had revived plans to include the feature in its smart glasses. As The ... Read more ›
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Defense tech startup Anduril is in talks to raise billions in new funding at a valuation of at least $60 billion including the new investment, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. The valuation would be roughly double the figure from its last private funding round in June. The funding would give the company more leeway to fund its first major weapons manufacturing facility and the development of... 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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Anthropic said Thursday it had raised $30 billion in funding led by Singapore wealth fund GIC and Coatue Management, giving it a new valuation of $380 billion valuation, including the funding. Other large investors writing checks into the round included Dragoneer Investment Group, Founders Fund, ... Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to Apple on Wednesday warning the company to not suppress conservative news outlets on its Apple News app, the company’s news aggregation app that comes preinstalled on iPhones and Macs. In the letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited research from ... Read more ›
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