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Splash Damage has announced it's cancelling the development of Transformers: Reactivate, and that it'll be "scaling down" the studio as result, leaving roles "at risk of redundancy". Read more Read more ›
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Schumer challenged Trump to address the cost of living for Americans, saying that if he did so, Democrats would back renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Read more ›
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BI has learned that Meta's contract with US fact-checkers will conclude in March. Read more ›
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Meta's about-face on fact checking shows how Musk has remade the world in his image. Read more ›
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Classic FM is launching a new video game music radio series presented by Minecraft YouTuber DanTDM. Read more Read more ›
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Meta's shocking decision to get rid of its fact-checkers shows how Mark Zuckerberg is reshaping his company in some impactful ways. Read more ›
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In the UK today, McDonalds is finally launching its Sonic the Hedgehog 3 themed Happy Meals. Read more Read more ›
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The Heritage Foundation sets its sites on the world's free online encyclopedia. Read more ›
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Arcane fans have a five-minute animated treat to enjoy today, in the shape of a new story cinematic released by League of Legends maker Riot Games. Read more Read more ›
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The Pokémon Company will once again hold a Pokémon Presents livestream next month, according to leak of data from Pokémon Go. Read more Read more ›
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10 years after he was first attached to the project, It and The Flash director Andrés Muschietti says he still has plans for Sony's Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation. Read more Read more ›
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Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista star in the trailer for In the Lost Lands, Paul W.S. Anderson's fantasy epic based on a short story by George R.R. Martin. Read more ›
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The future of Microsoft's handheld gaming plans includes a marriage between the best of Xbox and Windows. Read more Read more ›
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Sony's upcoming Until Dawn film adaptation will feature both a new cast of characters and a new story. Read more Read more ›
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Apple has expanded its production footprint in the United States, with its S9 chip for the Apple Watch now reportedly being manufactured at TSMC's facility in Arizona. According to technology columnist Tim Culpan, TSMC has now started producing Apple's S9 System-in-Package (SiP) chip near Phoenix, Arizona at its Fab 21 plant. The company commenced production of the A16 Bionic chip for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus at the... Read more ›
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Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior. Read more ›
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President Biden in an interview with USA Today said Trump was "very complimentary" of a portion of his economic record during a private meeting. Read more ›
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By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms. Read more ›
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According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta trust and safety workers will be relocated to Texas to prevent them from “censoring” users. Experts point to other advantages. Read more ›
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Robotaxis are quickly gaining ground, largely thanks to Alphabet-backed Waymo, which announced in October that it was completing more than 100,000 paid rides for passengers per week. Waymo plans to enter new regions next year. And everything in the market is sure to intensify further as Tesla tries to begin mass-producing its own robotaxis in 2026. Existing ride-hailing services are in for a period of disruption. Uber is one of... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is drastically relaxing its stance on content moderation, moving in the direction of Elon Musk’s X, a move that responds to pressure from the incoming Trump administration that will shake up the social media sector. In a post written by Meta’s newly promoted Chief Global Affairs ... Read more ›
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Within hours of OpenAI’s demonstration of its latest advanced reasoning model, o3, social media platforms and online forums were filled with posts from software engineers questioning their future: What happens to their jobs when artificial intelligence can write code better than they can? But Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth, whose firm helps OpenAI, Google and others to develop code-writing AI, thinks doomsayers about the future of software engineers have it all... Read more ›
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A Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning, killing the driver and injuring several bystanders, contained gasoline and other fuel canisters and large firework mortars, Las Vegas police said. The findings, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... Read more ›
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Benefits startup Level has told its clients that it is shutting down after an effort to sell the company fell through, marking another abrupt closure of a fintech that has left users in the lurch. Level, which was founded in 2018 and raised a $27 million Series A round in 2021 led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, told the companies offering its benefits plans that they would need... Read more ›
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Databricks and Snowflake, already embroiled in a fierce rivalry over software that manages companies’ data, are now jockeying for position in generative artificial intelligence—particularly AI that helps businesses search their own data. Those goals have led both companies to consider buying the same startups. In recent weeks, representatives from Databricks and Snowflake have talked to the leaders of Voyage AI, a year-old startup both companies backed, about a potential acquisition,... Read more ›
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Shares of Carvana fell 2% after a short-selling research firm, Hindenburg Research, published a report alleging that the publicly traded online car dealer has weak underwriting standards and an increasingly risky portfolio of subprime loans. The report focused on the role played by the ... Read more ›
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Specialized chip designers Broadcom and Marvell Technology have been getting a lot of investor love lately. Both companies’ shares have surged more than 30% over the past three months as their revenues have soared, thanks to their efforts helping tech giants including Google and Amazon build their own artificial intelligence chips. Meanwhile, shares of the biggest AI chip designer, Nvidia, have stalled as its super-hot revenue growth has slowed. Right... Read more ›
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Morgan Stanley’s online stock-trading arm, E-Trade, is exploring adding crypto trading in anticipation of a more favorable crypto regulatory environment under the incoming Donald Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the firm’s plans. If Morgan Stanley goes ahead with the launch, E-Trade would become one of the largest mainstream financial firms to offer crypto trading, pitting a traditional brokerage giant against Coinbase and other crypto exchanges. Read more ›
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Welcome to the first AI Agenda issue of 2025! We’re expecting a lot in AI this year, given an impressive reasoning model from OpenAI, a new administration and likely lots more multi-billion-dollar funding rounds on the way. Here are my predictions for what’s coming: Read more ›
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