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TikTok got a second life after President Donald Trump extended the deadline for the app to find a U.S. buyer by another 75 days. But its future remains far from clear, given questions about whether Trump, ByteDance and the Chinese government will eventually agree on a deal. And that means rivals, creators and advertisers will be in limbo for a while.
âI just think thereâs going to be uncertainty around TikTok for years, not days,â said Jim Shepherd, Snapâs director of content and global creator partnership
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Paramount Skydance's five-day return-to-office push is coming into focus. Read the memo Paramount's "RTO Task Force" sent to employees about the plan. Read more âș
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After moving to cities across the Middle East and Asia, Andre Neveling says he feels a kind of "international homelessness." Read more âș
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Disney is losing an estimated $4.3 million per day (about $30 million per week) from the ongoing YouTube TV blackout of ESPN, ABC, and other networks amid a contract dispute over carriage fees. Of course, YouTube is also feeling financial pressure from users who have already canceled or intend to cancel their service. Variety reports: Disney is losing an estimated $30 million per week from its networks being pulled off... Read more âș
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You can save up to ÂŁ200 on Secretlab gaming chairs, desks, and accessories, thanks to Black Friday. Read more âș
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Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film. Read more âș
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An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before. Read more âș
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PokĂ©Park Kanto, the first permanent PokĂ©mon theme park, will open its doors on February 5, 2026. Previous PokĂ©mon parks and attractions existed in the past, but they were only open for a limited time. PokĂ©Park Kanto will be located inside the Yomiuriland amusement park in Tokyo, Japan and will require an add-on pass to enter. Visitors will have to go through a âPokĂ©mon Research Labâ building, which serves as the... Read more âș
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A J.P. Morgan report says that the AI industry needs to make at least $650 billion annually for investors to get a 10% return on all the money going into it until 2030. Read more âș
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The Marine Corps' rare boat cloak stars at birthday balls each November for the few who don them. Read more âș
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The new game expands the series but character-driven storytelling takes a backseat. Read more âș
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Mamdani's most popular proposal, according to the poll, is raising taxes on millionaires and corporations. Read more âș
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Football Manager 26 is the biggest revamp in series' history, but it's essentially an alpha for next year's game. Unless you're a die-hard fan, you're likely better off sticking with FM 24. Read more âș
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In recent court filings, Elon Musk's lawyers said he contributed over $38 million to the ChatGPT maker over the years. Read more âș
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Google has unveiled Private AI Compute, a cloud platform designed to deliver advanced AI capabilities while preserving user privacy. As The Verge notes, the feature is "virtually identical to Apple's Private Cloud Compute." From the report: Many Google products run AI features like translation, audio summaries, and chatbot assistants, on-device, meaning data doesn't leave your phone, Chromebook, or whatever it is you're using. This isn't sustainable, Google says, as advancing... Read more âș
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Disneyâs spat with Googleâs YouTube TV over a new content distribution contract is costing the entertainment giant $4.3 million a day in lost revenue, Morgan Stanley estimates. Thatâs $30 million a week as the blackout of channels including ABC and ESPN stretches into its 12th day, Variety reports, though the analysts expect Disney and Google [âŠ] Read more âș
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Decagon, which develops AI for automating customer service, is discussing raising equity funding from new investors at a valuation of $4 billion to $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The discussions come just five months after the company announced financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal discussions suggest investor interest is still high for one of the most promising and increasingly crowded fields... Read more âș
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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 Anthropicâs Claude Sonnet model. (M2 costs $1.20... Read more âș
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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 facilityâs 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 âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesnât want the government to bail them out if the company fails. âIf we screw up and canât fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,â Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more âș
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Iâve 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 âș
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Weâve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote thatâs generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, Iâm not talking about the mayoral election in New York CityâIâm talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Muskâs gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the companyâs Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more âș
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The White House has told others in the federal government it wonât allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trumpâs 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 âș
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that government guarantees for financing artificial intelligence chips could help the U.S. stay competitive globally. âWeâre looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,â she said at a ... Read more âș
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Before Sequoia Capitalâs 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 âș
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Two longtime vehicle manufacturing leaders at Tesla said separately on Sunday that theyâre 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 âș
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