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As Republicans sweeping to power in Washington call for bringing the great tech powers to heel, one of those big companies has mostly escaped their wrath: Microsoft. Brad Smith, the company’s president and main liaison to Washington, is trying to keep it that way.
In the months before Donald Trump’s reelection, Microsoft staffers were in steady contact with his campaign and the Republican National Committee, providing tech support for the RNC’s convention and cybersecurity assistance when Iranian hackers t
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Bird founder says takeover remains non-hostile as CM.com issues new shares below proposed offer. Bird founder and CEO Robert Vis has reaffirmed that Bird’s interest in CM.com is strictly non-hostile, as he responds to CM.com’s announcement of issuing 1,020,408 new ordinary shares at €4.90 per share to a single investor. “Before any public announcement, I ... Read more Read more ›
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Professors are fighting AI by making students write by hand. Too bad it's unreadable. Read more ›
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Vendep Capital, the Finnish venture capital firm known for its focus on early-stage B2B SaaS companies, has raised its fourth fund at €80 million to support the next generation of SaaS founders across the Nordics and Baltics, particularly those building AI-first products. The round is backed by several leading Nordic and European investors, including the state-owned ... Read more ›
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Bought by volunteers, the 8-inch and 10-inch propeller drones were used to strike vehicles near the Dontesk airport, the special forces unit said. Read more ›
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If you're tired and struggling to make it through the day, experts say these foods can give you the energy you need. Read more ›
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Reputable gadget leaker Evan Blass has taken to X with “some confirmed details” on Samsung’s upcoming trifold phone. It’ll be called the “Galaxy Z TriFold,” according to Blass, with a 6.5-inch cover display that maxes out at 2600 nits brightness. It unfurls to produce a 10-inch display on the inside capable of reaching a peak […] Read more ›
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It's Valve time. The Bellevue-based firm is making three hardware announcements today, including a new Steam Machine mini PC that it claims is more than six times as powerful as the Steam Deck, a revised Steam Controller with more mainstream appeal, and the Steam Frame, a new standalone VR headset that marks the debut of SteamOS on ARM mobile chips. All three are due to arrive in early 2026. Read... Read more ›
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Valve has made a trio of hardware announcements today, including a standalone VR headset with unique tech for streaming games called Frame, a revised and more mainstream Steam Controller, and even a revival of the old Steam Machine concept: a tiny gaming PC that brings your Steam game library to your living room. Read more Read more ›
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The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks. Read more ›
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How to watch World Cup qualifiers for free. Live stream Cameroon vs. DR Congo in World Cup qualifiers for free. Read more ›
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Morgan Freeman said he sometimes thinks about retiring, but when his agent calls with a new offer, "the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday." Read more ›
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The US Treasury Department said the two firms are fronts used by Iranian agents to supply HESA, the firm that makes the Shahed and Ababil drones. Read more ›
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Congress voted to reopen the government, setting up an end to the longest government shutdown in US history. Read more ›
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Valve is about to challenge the Xbox and PlayStation on their home turf. Ten years to the month after Valve's original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing… the Steam Machine. I flew to Valve's headquarters to try the company's new PC-based game console, alongside a brand-new Steam Controller and the new Steam […] Read more ›
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You can reportedly sideload APKs on Valve's new headset, but it turns out Steam will accept Android games too. Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Bessent's comments came after President Donald Trump said he would lower some tariffs. Read more ›
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Google will allow 'experienced users' to install Android apps made by unverified developers. Read more ›
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A new report by the EU-funded Innovation Radar bridge project has just been published, and it explores investment and startup activity in 10 industrial verticals of the EU’s Apply AI strategy, announced in October 2025. Europe is staking its claim in the global AI race, with startups at the forefront of this transformation. The second ... Read more ›
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Chinese companies are launching open-source AI models built to power coding assistants as cheaper alternatives to those available from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Late last month, Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax launched M2, a new open-source large language model developed primarily for coding and AI agents. In a post on X, MiniMax noted that the price of M2 is just 8% of that of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model. (M2 costs $1.20... Read more ›
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On a quiet September morning, Alex Leithiser was out in the woods somewhere in the South on a secret mission: to break into a data center. First, he slipped through a small gap in the facility’s barbed wire fence, and as soon as he hit the ground, he switched clothes, pulling a fresh set from a small backpack. With cameras and alarms all over the data center, Leithiser hoped to... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t want the government to bail them out if the company fails. “If we screw up and can’t fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,” Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more ›
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I’ve been hearing a lot about how intense competition is for Series A investments lately. Investors that typically look to invest in more mature startups, say at the Series B or above rounds, are crowding into Series A rounds for fear of missing the next major winner.Like much else these days, artificial intelligence gets the credit (or blame) for this new dynamic. Venture capitalists are watching revenues triple or quadruple... Read more ›
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Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The redesign could include a second camera lens, an attempt to address one of consumers’ main ... Read more ›
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We’ve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote that’s generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, I’m not talking about the mayoral election in New York City—I’m talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Musk’s gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more ›
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The White House has told others in the federal government it won’t allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trump’s hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision is a major blow to the AI chip giant, which has seen its revenue from China shrivel this year... Read more ›
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Before Sequoia Capital’s leader Roelof Botha announced he was stepping down from the position, partners Alfred Lin, Pat Grady and Andrew Reed came to him to talk about his time at the firm. Botha had only held the top-most job at the firm for three years, taking over from long-time leader Doug Leone just as startup valuations were convulsing from a historic series of rate hikes. Botha, after talking to... Read more ›
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Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest private lenders, is ramping up its big bet on artificial intelligence with a roughly $3 billion investment in a New Mexico data center that’s part of OpenAI’s Stargate project, said a person with knowledge of the deal. Blue Owl, which has nearly $300 billion in assets, has emerged as a crucial investor in AI infrastructure, taking on the riskiest slices of big... Read more ›
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Two longtime vehicle manufacturing leaders at Tesla said separately on Sunday that they’re leaving the company. One of the executives, Siddhant Awasthi, worked as program manager for Cybertruck and oversaw the production ramp of the electric truck. Awasthi, an eight year Tesla veteran, also ... Read more ›
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