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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wished Elon Musk the best with DOGE and said he'd "love to be helpful" with the government efficiency effort. Read more ›
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Federal employees in DEI roles will be placed on leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to an OPM memo, following President Trump's executive order. Read more ›
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On X, DOGE pointed out the federal government spends more to produce the penny than its worth. But the penny has survived decades of reform attempts. Read more ›
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Samsung’s first Unpacked event of 2025 delivered the Galaxy S25 series — as expected. Although the phones don’t have dramatically upgraded specs, the company stuffed — you guessed it! — more AI into the devices. This latest batch is more context-sensitive and predictive, and some of it even squeezes more out of the phones’ mildly upgraded hardware. Galaxy S25 Ultra Sam Rutherford for Engadget The Galaxy S25 Ultra is still... Read more ›
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Amazon is laying off about 200 employees in its North America stores division, the company said Thursday. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the cuts to the division, which includes a wide variety of teams working on everything from fashion and fitness products to private brands under senior vice ... Read more ›
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A pending ban of TikTok in the U.S. is prompting a flood of TikTok users to try out Chinese social media app RedNote. Chinese regulators aren’t happy. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet watchdog, is concerned that English-language content showing up on RedNote may contain politically sensitive posts that aren’t otherwise allowed on Chinese social media, according to three people with knowledge of the communications between Chinese officials... Read more ›
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As I wrote last month, there’s been a flurry of excitement about applying generative artificial intelligence techniques to robotics, a field that’s generated much hope and plenty of disappointment over the last two decades. Like chatbot makers, robotics companies have relied on humans to manually label data, for example identifying packages in images to train robots to sort boxes. Many have used Scale AI, the data-labelling startup valued at $14... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday evening announced on social media the launch of his “official” meme token, a solana-based asset whose price jumped to $26 per token within a day, giving it a market value of $5 billion on paper. The token, called $TRUMP, is intended to be an expression ... Read more ›
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Shield AI, a maker of drones and software whose customers include the Ukrainian and U.S. governments, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from investors including Palantir and Lockheed Martin, three people familiar with the matter said. The round would likely value the San Diego-based startup at about $5 billion, before the investment, roughly double its valuation from its last funding round in 2023, the people said. Read more ›
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It’s not just Meta Platforms, Snap and Google’s YouTube that stand to benefit if TikTok shutters in the U.S. as a result of Friday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the ban-or-sell law against the Chinese-owned app. Several small social and video apps, including Flip, Clapper and Whatnot, could also come out ahead. Meanwhile, losers include logistics startups which work with TikTok Shop sellers, such as ShipBob and ShipHero, along with advertisers... Read more ›
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For the last two years, enterprise software companies have been trying to convince customers to fork over more money for new artificial intelligence features, such as generating notes from conference calls and ginning up images for slide presentations.Now, the software firms are no longer asking. Google said Wednesday it would automatically include generative AI features with Workspace productivity apps like Gmail, and charge basic tier customers an additional $2 per... Read more ›
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President Trump on Monday revoked dozens of executive orders issued by the Biden administration including a key directive related to artificial intelligence. Biden’s executive order on AI was issued in October 2023 and required companies developing advanced AI models to share information with ... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is preparing to announce that OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture to invest in building data centers for artificial intelligence in the U.S., according to a CBS News report. The report said Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle ... Read more ›
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U.S. authorities took a key step on Friday toward heavily restricting a trade rule used by e-commerce companies like Temu, Amazon and Shein to import products into the U.S. from China without paying tariffs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposed rules on Friday that would bar companies ... Read more ›
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