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Meh. June-quarter earnings out Tuesday from Alphabet, Microsoft, Snap and Spotify shouldn’t excite anyone about the state of business in tech. The digital ad market is showing what can only be called an uneven recovery, while enterprise software appears to be still struggling. Alphabet seems to have had the best quarter of the companies reporting today, with revenue growth accelerating meaningfully from the first quarter. But let’s not get too excited. That means revenue grew 7% instead of 3%. Still, that w
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"Santa's coming to town a little early," Duffy said, announcing $10,000 bonus checks for some air traffic controllers who worked during the shutdown. Read more ›
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While Musk wants you to trust Grok to organize all of human civilization's knowledge, the bot's fealty to Dear Leader is out of control. Read more ›
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The $18 fee is optional, but flyers without acceptable ID run the risk of not being allowed on their flight if they don't pay up. Read more ›
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An Ohio IT contractor pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's network after being fired, impersonating another worker and using a PowerShell script to reset 2,500 passwords -- an act that locked out thousands of employees and caused more than $862,000 in damage. He faces up to 10 years in prison. The Register reports: Maxwell Schultz, 35, impersonated another contractor to gain access to the company's network after his... Read more ›
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The Miss Universe stage has propelled many women to fame, including influencer Olivia Culpo, actor Gal Gadot, and reality TV star Kenya Moore. Read more ›
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Monero's network activity reflects the real-world demand for privacy coins, but Zcash’s spike looks more like a high-beta market trade that is no longer tied to network activity. Read more ›
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IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances by the early 2030s, "with the goal of demonstrating the concept is workable by the end of 2030," reports Reuters. "The move could pave the way for a quantum internet, though executives at the two companies cautioned that the networks would require technologies that do not currently exist and will have to be developed with the help of universities... Read more ›
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US regulator says current interpretation limits choice for technology companies Read more ›
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We’re moving off the (unresolved) AI bubble debate to a much more fundamental question about AI. That is whether decisions about an enormously costly technology, which threatens to put many people out of work, should be left to tech leaders or discussed more broadly. It turns out Republicans may have the best handle on this issue, most obviously Florida governor Ron DeSantis. He’s long been vocal about the threat AI... Read more ›
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Gap CEO Richard Dickson said its viral campaign during the summer's denim ad wars drove double-digit growth in sales, fueled by Gen Z. Read more ›
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Only nine American women have won the Miss Universe pageant in its 74-year history. R'Bonney Gabriel was the last Miss USA to take the crown. Read more ›
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In what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls a "terrible idea," the Federal Communications Commission has rescinded the requirement for telecom companies to issue yearly cybersecurity reports. Read more ›
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After Nawat Itsaragrisil yelled at Miss Mexico, the pageant's president said he'd restrict him from Miss Universe events. That hasn't been the case. Read more ›
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Jeff Perera and his wife saw Central Florida as a true bagel desert. He'd never baked anything before but decided to try making them himself. Read more ›
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At Tesla’s annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Musk’s other companies, xAI. But Musk’s 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 ›
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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 Microsoft’s Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips over an unspecified period, and ... Read more ›
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Apple’s 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 won’t happen until after late January when ... Read more ›
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Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s 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 ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Grindr’s boardroom feud • Plus, our Recommendations: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “A Biography of a Mountain” and “Materialists”A bit of housekeeping: The Information’s Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat we’re calling “tech wealth and culture.” This person will cover how Silicon Valley’s moguls live large—their pursuits, their pastimes—and how they spend their money. Here’s a... Read more ›
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TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more ›
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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 ›
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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 startup’s next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more ›
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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 Griffin’s Citadel Securities at a $20 ... Read more ›
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Blockchain.com, a crypto brokerage and wallet provider, is planning to go public next year, the company’s newly named co-chief executive revealed, aiming to list after several volatile years. The company said it promoted its president Lane Kasselman to be co-CEO, alongside its founder and CEO Peter Smith, as part of its listing efforts. Kasselman is a former Uber executive who has worked for the crypto firm for five years. The... Read more ›
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