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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:The fame, feud and fortune behind billionaire Alexandr WangThe best high-tech spasPlus: An apocalypse found; a marvelous, murderous melodrama; and requiem for a reality TV star.Until this moment, it was hard to know how seriously to take Donald Trump’s emerging courtship of Silicon Valley leaders. Yes, he had a glitzy fundraiser at David Sacks’ Pacific Heights home earlier this month—and yes, he’d won over people like Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg to help push his ag
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The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House. The Court’s three Democrats dissented. Trump v. United States is an astonishing opinion. It holds that presidents […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk said that his Grok 3 AI is being trained on 100,000 Nvidia H100s. That would cost billions. Read more ›
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Americans under the age of 35 generally make around $60,000. Gen Zers in a survey said more than double that would make them feel secure. Read more ›
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The liberal Supreme Court justice issued a blistering dissent to the conservative majority's ruling that presidents have immunity for official acts. Read more ›
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"Absolutely the right attitude," Musk said of Huang's work ethic. Read more ›
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In high school, when she asked her parents about going to college in Europe, they said it was too far away. She went to Canada instead. Read more ›
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Entertainment Weekly has released the first trailer for Hellboy: The Crooked Man, introducing the world to Jack Kesy’s take on everyone’s favorite demonic paranormal investigator. Does the film do justice to Richard Corben’s artwork from the original three-issue miniseries its based on? Take a look for yourself:Read more... Read more ›
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Huawei had to get creative with the design of its Ascend 910B AI chip in order to compete with Nvidia A100. Read more ›
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Scientists in California tested a way to coax certain fat cells to burn calories, rather than simply store energy. In new research involving mice, the team found it was possible to convert existing white fat cells into calorie-burning beige fat cells. The findings could pave the way to a new class of obesity…Read more... Read more ›
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Biden's camp has defended his debate performance, saying it was a blip. Experts say it could come back to haunt the president. Read more ›
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The big budget upcoming return of Crazy Taxi will be an open-world, massively-multiplayer game, Sega has said. A new developer interview video published today includes quotes from Sega's team behind the upcoming reboot, as well as brief flashes of in-game footage. There are clips of multiple yellow taxis racing each other - and police cars in pursuit. Job adverts on Sega's recruitment page note that the game is being developed... Read more ›
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Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming watchOS 10.6 update to developers for testing purposes, with the second beta coming two weeks after the release of the first beta. To install the watchOS 10.6 update, developers need to open the Apple Watch app, go to the Software Update section under "General" in Settings, and toggle on the watchOS 10 Developer Beta. An Apple ID linked to a developer... Read more ›
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The congresswoman said that the Supreme Court had become "consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control." Read more ›
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Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) must pay more than £27k to a disabled former employee who brought a discrimination claim against the company. The case, filed by Star Citizen senior programmer Paul Ah-Thion, revolves around a return-to-work policy that also involved work from the company's new central Manchester office location - some 15 miles from its previous Wilmslow location. Ah-Thion, who previously worked in-office at Wilmslow, brought the... Read more ›
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Cheaper monthly student-loan payments are allowed to resume after federal courts blocked parts of the student-debt SAVE plan. Read more ›
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The upcoming iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will be the first Apple smartphones to adopt Samsung's high performance "M14" OLED display panel, claims a new report coming out of South Korea. According to ETNews, Samsung's "M" series of OLED panels are made for flagship smartphones, while "14" refers to the number of high-performance materials used to produce them. "M14" is the first series of its kind, and... Read more ›
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It's now unclear if Trump's January 6-related case will move to trial before Election Day. Read more ›
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Apple eventually plans to turn some of its artificial intelligence features into paid services, similar to iCloud+ subscriptions, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that while Apple Intelligence will be free to start, Apple's long-term plan is to launch something like "Apple Intelligence+," with extra features that users pay monthly fees to access. Making its own AI features another services revenue... Read more ›
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In the latest episode of "House of the Dragon," Alicent finally finds out the truth about King Viserys' last words. Fans are now mocking her. Read more ›
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When Microsoft formed an alliance in 2019 with OpenAI to resell the startup’s artificial intelligence, it brought the reputation, connections and sales muscle to the table that seemed key for winning deals with large customers. Turns out OpenAI itself has gotten pretty good at cutting those deals. The revenue that the startup—best known for its ChatGPT chatbot—makes from selling access to AI models such as GPT-4 now exceeds what Microsoft... Read more ›
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Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years has taken small steps toward making the iPhone easier for consumers to repair. But self-repair remains a cumbersome step for consumers—particularly when it comes to battery replacement. Under a law passed by the European Union last year, phone makers have to ensure smartphone batteries can be replaced by their owners with easily accessible tools by 2025. With that... Read more ›
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Matt Mattingly sold the bed-and-breakfast inn he owned in southern Maine several years ago and was trying to “figure out what I want to be when I grow up.” This year, after looking for a remote job that would put his communications Ph.D. to use, he responded to an online ad looking for people to train artificial intelligence models from home. Mattingly passed a paid assessment lasting nearly six hours,... Read more ›
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Animoca Brands, a crypto gaming and metaverse conglomerate valued at $6 billion in 2022, is considering a public listing in Hong Kong or the Middle East as early as next year, co-founder and executive chair Yat Siu said. That would mark a return to public markets for the company, more than four years after it delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange amid questions about its accounting. Hong Kong and the... Read more ›
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After Thursday night’s presidential debate, the prospects of another Donald Trump administration seem, well…inevitable. (Don’t shoot the messenger!) For tech folks, that heralds a friendlier regulatory regime toward crypto for sure and probably also toward tech M&A, given the freeze imposed on even the tiniest of deals by President Joe Biden’s antitrust crew. Indeed, the business-friendly impact of the first Trump administration can be seen in Supreme Court rulings on... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:The fame, feud and fortune behind billionaire Alexandr WangThe best high-tech spasPlus: An apocalypse found; a marvelous, murderous melodrama; and requiem for a reality TV star.Until this moment, it was hard to know how seriously to take Donald Trump’s emerging courtship of Silicon Valley leaders. Yes, he had a glitzy fundraiser at David Sacks’ Pacific Heights home earlier this month—and yes, he’d won over people like... Read more ›
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Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China, according to slides shown to Chinese sellers, marking the e-commerce giant’s most aggressive response yet to the growth of bargain sites like Temu and Shein. The new marketplace will offer unbranded fashion, home goods and daily necessities, according to the slides, and orders will take 9 to... Read more ›
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Anduril has lined up backers for one of the biggest venture deals this year. The defense startup is close to finalizing a $1.5 billion investment co-led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, according to two people involved in the deal. Sands Capital, known for investments just before public offerings, is co-leading the deal as a new investor, according to one of those people. The investment will value the 7-year-old company at... Read more ›
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Google wants chatbots that people can hang with—not just pelt with questions. The search engine giant has been developing a product for creating and conversing with customizable chatbots, which could be modeled on celebrities or made by users, two people with direct knowledge of the project said. The bots would be similar to the online personalities from Meta Platforms and startup Character.AI, based on celebrities like football star Tom Brady... Read more ›
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Amazon is planning to use the same controversial trade rule as Temu and Shein to import items sold on its upcoming discount section without paying duties, according to a person close to the Amazon team working on the project. While the expected move will help Amazon offer prices that are more competitive with its ascendant rivals, it’s also likely to thrust Amazon into the center of heated political debate around... Read more ›
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