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In a bid to avoid a U.S. ban, TikTok is embarking on a project to restructure its product and operations in the country. It plans to store local citizen data on local servers, create a domestic entity to house that data, comply with local legal and law enforcement requests for data, limit the flow of data across national bordersâand spend billions of dollars to make all of this possible. In short, it plans to bring to life the model of internet governance the tech industry and the U.S. government have spent
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After meeting in the Oval Office, Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani sounded a largely conciliatory note. Read more âș
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At a recent event this week, the health secretary speculated that aluminum in vaccines is causing children's peanut allergies. Read more âș
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After previewing its plans to open a marketplace to "redistribute" dormant handles last month, X has made the feature available to all Premium+ subscribers on the platform. The feature allows subscribers to request new handles that up to now have been unavailable because they belonged to accounts that have since become inactive. The marketplace offers two types of handles: "priority" and "rare." For priority handles, X has suggested the goal... Read more âș
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Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling âsmart featuresâ like spell checking. But Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson tells The [âŠ] Read more âș
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Here's some light â and revolting! â reading while we wait for the Epstein Files to be released (or stonewalled). You can now peruse the Jeffrey Epstein emails, recently released by Congress, in a simulated Gmail account."You're logged in as Jeffrey Epstein," the Jmail website reads. (Ick.) Luke Igel, CEO of Kino, and software engineer Riley Walz collaborated on the project. The latter is one of the creators of the... Read more âș
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The Miss Universe 2025 winner is Miss Mexico FĂĄtima Bosch. She took the crown after weeks of drama at the pageant. Read more âș
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The Trump administration has been something of a pendulum in its position on the war in Ukraine, swinging between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia positions over the past year. This week, it is swinging hard toward Moscow. Earlier this week, Axios reported on a new 28-point Trump administration plan to end the war in Ukraine, echoing the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds. Read more âș
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In a languid era where every studio exec is still chasing shared universe unicorns, recent horror has provided a framework that eschews much of contemporary franchise filmmaking. Read more âș
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Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and tablets. FSE launched with the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, and it has so far only been available on PC handhelds. The expansion to [âŠ] Read more âș
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Google's AI infrastructure chief told employees the company must double its AI serving capacity every six months in order to meet demand. In a presentation earlier this month, Amin Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, gave a presentation titled "AI Infrastructure." It included a slide on "AI compute demand" that said: "Now we must double every 6 months.... the next 1000x in 4-5 years." CNBC reports: The presentation was... Read more âș
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The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED. Read more âș
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Judge Leonie Brinkema said a âdramaticâ forced sale may not be âeasily enforceableâ Read more âș
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'Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag' is shockingly old enough that Ubisoft might release a remake in the next dew months. Read more âș
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Players are roleplaying ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. Read more âș
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After trying all of Ina Garten's recipes, I think these are her best ones for Thanksgiving dinner, including potato side dishes, turkey, and desserts. Read more âș
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At Teslaâs annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Muskâs other companies, xAI. But Muskâs revelation at the meeting that Tesla is considering building its own chip fabrication plant signaled another way his two companies could work together. Musk had already discussed plans for such a chip fab internally at Tesla months before the... Read more âș
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Microsoft will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, and Nvidia will invest $10 billion in the startup, the three companies announced on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Anthropic will spend at least $30 billion to rent servers from Microsoftâs Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips over an unspecified period, and ... Read more âș
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Appleâs succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely wonât happen until after late January when ... Read more âș
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Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morningâs news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAIâs board of directors following a congressional committeeâs release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had been on the board of the ChatGPT-maker for two years. His departure follows his decision to step back from public commitments in... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Googleâs recent progress in artificial intelligence could âcreate some temporary economic headwinds for our company,â though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead. After OpenAI researchers heard that Google had created a new AI that appears to have leapfrogged OpenAIâs in the way it was developed, Altman said in the memo that âwe know we have some work to do but... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Inside Grindrâs boardroom feud ⹠Plus, our Recommendations: âHarry Potter and the Sorcererâs Stone,â âA Biography of a Mountainâ and âMaterialistsâA bit of housekeeping: The Informationâs Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat weâre calling âtech wealth and culture.â This person will cover how Silicon Valleyâs moguls live largeâtheir pursuits, their pastimesâand how they spend their money. Hereâs a... Read more âș
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The White House is working on an executive order that will direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass their own laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Information. The order, which is still in the drafting phase, could change. The timeline for when it will be formally announced is also unclear. The move is part of a long-standing effort this year... Read more âș
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For 15 years, Goldman Sachsâ private tech conference in Las Vegas has been the event for taking the pulse of startup dealmaking. Years ago, it was possible to run into founders such as Uberâs Travis Kalanick and Instagramâs Kevin Systrom raising money for their then-small startups. The conference is much bigger now (which makes some investors grumble), but it remains a nexus for investors who want to throw money at... Read more âș
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Thinking Machines Lab, the company co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5 billion in the startupâs next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more âș
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Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the U.S., moving ahead with its plan to list despite a recent-sell of crypto-related stocks. The filing comes a day after it raised $200 million from Ken Griffinâs Citadel Securities at a $20 ... Read more âș
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