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Christmas Eve is usually the last day of a frantic holiday sprint for staff at e-commerce and logistics companies, after which they can expect to kick back and enjoy a comparatively calm couple of months. Not this year. Virtually any business that moves its products across borders has to be on guard as world leaders jockey to position themselves ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration and a likely escalation in the trade war between the U.S. and China. The latest example is a policy change in Mexico that’s set
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Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals. Read more ›
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xAI, which is set to build a supercomputer with 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, raises $6 billion. Read more ›
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United Airlines' share price more than doubled this year. A broad network, strong finances, and coming fleet refresh are among the reasons why. Read more ›
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Here is how organizations can strengthen defenses against Interlock ransomware targeting FreeBSD servers. Read more ›
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A leaked photo of what is claimed to be an early PCB design for the upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090 flagship GPU has leaked online Read more ›
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A huge bombardment of energy infrastructure that has knocked out power in parts of Ukraine was deliberately planned for Christmas day, Zelenskyy said. Read more ›
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Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of control. Read more ›
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Lel Smits and her husband invest one day's salary for each of her children every Christmas. She is committed to teaching them financial literacy. Read more ›
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Lawyers for Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, have questioned his ability to stand trial in a federal sex trafficking case. Read more ›
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Whether you work with media for your job or just want to make that family Christmas photo a little bigger, being able to resize an image is incredibly useful. Read more ›
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The director of The Witch and The Northman returns with a remake of the horror classic Nosferatu that's best at its kinkiest. Read more ›
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Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the start of the 1980s. Read more ›
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Jaymes O'Pheron is a Fargo-based entrepreneur who has lived in Washington, Texas, Ireland, and North Dakota. His favorite spot might surprise you. Read more ›
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Netflix hooked viewers with the mystery of "Fool Me Once," and stoked controversy with "Baby Reindeer." Read more ›
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TikTok could be banned come January, but what are the other top creator-economy storylines? BI's team rounded them up. Read more ›
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Bob Dylan rented one of 20 homes in an under-the-radar, celebrity-favorite enclave in Manhattan. He liked it so much that he eventually bought it. Read more ›
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Explore Uber's expanding global offerings, from Uber Shikara in India to Uber Shuttle in the US, with plans for air taxis and electric boats in 2025. Read more ›
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There are three standout wearables that have made 2024 a fantastic year for smartwatches, smart rings, and smart glasses. Read more ›
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Hit the ground running in 2025 with the ultimate collection of productivity apps for Windows and save a staggering 72% during this StackSocial deal. Read more ›
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Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models’ impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping it to poach customers from its larger rival, OpenAI. What many people haven’t realized, though, is how Anthropic might be disadvantaged in the upcoming Trump era.Anthropic has connections to the effective altruism movement, which emphasizes the dangers of AI over short-term profit or productivity benefits. These positions could rub President-elect Donald... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s next-generation reasoning model—called o3 for a funny reason—seriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors like Anthropic and Google by a lot. It also reached human levels of performance on ARC-AGI, a benchmark meant to test how AI models handle tasks that humans excel at such... Read more ›
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OpenAI is currently prepping the next generation of its o1 reasoning model, which takes more time to “think” about questions users give it before responding, according to two people with knowledge of the effort. However, due to a potential copyright or trademark conflict with O2, a British ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! This edition of Weekend is especially exciting: It marks the debut of a new coverage area for us and the arrival to The Information of a talented reporter. Sara Germano, a veteran of the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, has joined Weekend to helm The Arena, Weekend’s new franchise devoted to covering the business and future of sports—particularly women’s sports, a source of major growth and... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s efforts to license news publishers’ content for training its large language models are beginning to pay business dividends. Publishers are increasingly opting to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools for their operations rather than Google’s, publishing executives say. OpenAI has signed more than a dozen content licensing agreements with news and magazine publishers in the past year. Under those deals, publishers get credits to use its technology, said people from... Read more ›
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A pop quiz: Which living basketball player has the most-worn signature sneaker in the NBA this season? If you guessed perennial All-Stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or even Michael Jordan, you’d be wrong: It’s Sabrina Ionescu, starting point guard for the WNBA champion New York Liberty. Indeed, sales of Ionescu’s unisex Nike shoes—the Sabrinas—quintupled over the 12 months ending in August, making it one of the fastest-growing brands at... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump had dinner with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Musk wasn’t expected to be part of the dinner but joined after it had already begun, according to the report. The Times did not report what the trio discussed. Earlier ... Read more ›
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Before Marc Andreessen slid into Andy Ayrey’s life, Ayrey’s artificial intelligence experiments were a quirky passion project. Ayrey, an artist and web designer who lives in rural New Zealand, likes to tinker with large language models and see what he can build with them. His favorite creation is a mischievous troll of an AI bot, Truth Terminal, which he released last spring on X to post shock humor, memes and... Read more ›
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To figure out how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are ending up in China in violation of U.S. export laws, chip giant Nvidia has turned to companies like Super Micro Computer for answers. Nvidia generally doesn’t sell its chips directly to customers, relying instead on specialized dealers and server companies like Supermicro, as the company is also known, to do so. That’s why Nvidia recently asked Supermicro to conduct spot... Read more ›
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Nvidia, a chip giant, says it can develop a cloud services and software business to rival Amazon Web Services. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence developer, has been developing server chips and a browser to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Google, respectively. And Elon Musk hired a data center team to build one of the biggest supercomputing server clusters for developing conversational AI. It seems like every major competitor in the... Read more ›
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