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This year hasn’t lived up to the high expectations of the bankers and lawyers that advise tech companies on acquisitions. One major culprit is fear of AI-driven irrelevance, which has paralyzed corporate CEOs, according to some bankers and lawyers gathered in New Orleans for the annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute conference.
“I have a lot of clients who are not doing M&A right now because of all the uncertainty around how AI is going to affect their business and the business of potential targets,” said.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Arkham data shows 8,285 BTC in Coinbase Prime custody as the company swings from $8 billion profit to nearly $5 billion loss ahead of its IPO push. Read more ›
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Washington narrowed a key data center tax break, reflecting broader tensions as states reconsider incentives amid industry resistance and rising public concerns. Read more ›
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The same people who once happily exploited your inability to say no will be the first to diagnose you with an "attitude problem" the moment you develop a backbone. Read more ›
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Screen protectors are one of the most common smartphone accessories of all time, and it's often the first thing a lot of people do. Do you need one in 2026? Read more ›
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My fourth playthrough of The Last of Us was also my friend’s first – here’s what I learned by playing it as a group. Read more ›
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The 'Hunger Games' series has come pretty far, and it's got at least one more movie in it with 'Sunrise on the Reaping. Read more ›
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Think the Stars and Stripes is the only banner you will see on a warship? Here are five unique and surprising flags actually flown by the US Navy. Read more ›
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After five years, the AirPods Max 2 add stronger sound processing, improved ANC, and new features like Adaptive Audio and lossless support. But some of the biggest complaints haven’t been addressed. Read more ›
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It's the first time a major U.S. newsroom has gone on strike partly to demand protections from AI-related layoffs, according to a report from Nieman Lab. They noted that one of the picketer's signs read "Thoughts not bots," : On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica's... Read more ›
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Anthropic has seen a surge in business spending in recent months, according to Ramp's AI index. Read more ›
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XChat: Can this X-affiliated chat app compete with WhatsApp and Signal? Elon Musk seems to think so. Read more ›
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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 lineup continues to be on sale, whereas the Galaxy S25 FE and Galaxy Z Flip7 have also received good discounts. A few Google Pixel devices have also received price cuts alongside the Motorola Razr Ultra 2025, which sees a massive price drop ahead of the rumored launch of the Razr Ultra 2026. The Galaxy S26 Ultra gets a $200 discount on Amazon US on both the 256GB... Read more ›
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The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom. Read more ›
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On-chain data points to easing selling pressure, with realized losses falling and spot markets shifting toward net buying. Read more ›
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GTA 6 developer Rockstar has confirmed it's been hacked by a third party after a hacking group issued a ransom demand. Read more Read more ›
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Keeping your Android phone up-to-date should be a straight-forward task. You have updates for apps in the Google Play store and system updates that show up at some point in most months. Those system updates can be smaller and include security patches or they may bring new Android versions or bigger quarterly builds that can... Read the original post: Android has a Secret Update Menu You Likely Didn’t Know About Read more ›
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Пасха — один из главных православных праздников, и поздравление, созданное лично для близкого человека, запоминается куда лучше, чем картинка из поиска, которую уже получили десятки других людей. Не все генераторы изображений одинаково хорошо справляются с пасхальной тематикой, православной символикой и кириллическими надписями. В этой статье расскажем о нейросетях, которые сделают лучшие пасхальные открытки. Читать далее Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A familiar Silicon Valley foe is the mastermind behind those explosive chatbot lawsuits• Tech Culture: San Francisco’s mecca for mad scientists eyes global expansion • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Idiot,” “Dune Messiah” and “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”Many, many, many people have had much to say in the last several days about OpenAI buying TBPN,... Read more ›
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For much of the last decade, the number of new apps launching in Apple’s App Store each year went into a tailspin, falling a whopping 48% between 2016 and 2024, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower. At least that was the case until last year. In 2025, the number of new apps that showed up in the App Store globally suddenly exploded, growing 30% to nearly 600,000 compared... Read more ›
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Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief financial officer, has voiced concerns that reflect the tensions and risks inherent in the CEO’s extraordinarily ambitious plans. Read more ›
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The first quarter is over, and tech earnings season is only a couple of weeks away. Here’s something worth thinking about: Big tech stocks out of favor with investors—particularly Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms—need to show something striking when they report for the quarter if they want to get out of the doghouse they’re in.If they don’t, sentiment is likely to become even more negative. In the next few months,... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar are diverging over the company’s timeline for an initial public offering as Altman pushes for a public debut as early as the fourth quarter, The Information reported. Friar has privately expressed concerns that the AI startup will not be ... Read more ›
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Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”—or, even better, “Token Legend.” The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens—the units of data processed by AI models—employees are burning through. Dubbed “Claudeonomics” after the flagship product of AI startup Anthropic, the leaderboard aggregates... Read more ›
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Forget all the chatter about which AI coding tool is winning the race. The companies behind the leading AI coding tools are learning the benefits of peaceful co-existence. On Thursday, for instance, Cursor announced a new version of its app designed for coding with AI agents from different coding providers simultaneously, including Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. OpenAI, meanwhile, last week released a software “plugin” that gives Claude Code... Read more ›
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SpaceX executives say its Starlink Mobile direct-to-cell service offered through mobile carriers will eventually reach hundreds of millions of customers around the globe, which would help justify SpaceX’s valuation. But right now, the service’s revenue is tiny. T-Mobile, for instance, SpaceX’s only mobile partner in the U.S., is offering its customers access to Starlink Mobile in exchange for paying SpaceX a total of around $100 million as it hits service... Read more ›
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Oracle named Schneider Electric’s former chief financial officer Hilary Maxson to be CFO, the first time in years the software-and-cloud giant has had a CFO. Maxson’s appointment comes as Oracle has borrowed heavily to fund a huge investment in AI data centers. Maxson, who had announced her ... Read more ›
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Hello! Anissa here. Is Nvidia’s CUDA Vulnerable?Tatarchuk likes to poke the bear. The bear, in this case, is Nvidia. Tatarchuk has every incentive to challenge the chip company’s dominance. He runs startup TensorWave, which rents out AI chips from Nvidia rival Advanced Micro Devices.Last year, during Nvidia’s GTC conference, Tatarchuk hosted an event in San Jose, Calif., Beyond CUDA, drawing hundreds of attendees eager to talk about alternatives to Nvidia’s... Read more ›
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