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Meta Platforms built a $114 billion-a-year advertising juggernaut by tailoring ads to Facebook and Instagram users based on what they liked, posted or bought on the company’s apps. Now, under mounting pressure from regulators around the world, Meta is backing away from that approach.
In the EU, users can now choose to see ads based only on basic personal data such as age, gender and general location. Meta is also considering offering subscriptions to a version of its services without ads. Meta’s regulatory
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JPMorgan flagged Harry Beller's cash withdrawals on behalf of Epstein four times, documents show. Now Congress wants to know what he knows. Read more ›
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Nvidia posts another record-breaking quarter with $57 billion in revenue, driven by surging demand for data-center GPUs. It now forecasts $65 billion next quarter and projects $0.5 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin sales by the end of 2026. Read more ›
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Amazon’s Black Friday deal cuts 25% off the Google Pixel 10, and up to $300 off its siblings. Read more ›
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Generative AI is making it even easier for attackers to exploit old and often forgotten network equipment. Replacing it takes investment, but Cisco is making the case that it’s worth it. 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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Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharp slump at most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disney’s entertainment ... 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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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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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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Amazon has a new name for its satellite internet effort: Amazon Leo, a reference to its constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. In a blog post, Rajeev Badyal, an Amazon Leo vice president, said that the satellite effort’s previous name, Project Kuiper, was a codename, which was inspired ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, it’s worth pointing out that Google CEO Sundar Pichai strongly hinted on X that Gemini 3, the long-awaited next update to Google’s line of Gemini models, would be coming out this week. Google has done an impressive job of catching up to the other labs when it comes to conversational AI models, and Gemini 3 will be the company’s latest test to see whether... Read more ›
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