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The federal judge hearing opening arguments in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its main backer Microsoft, which seeks to block the ChatGPT maker’s conversion to a for-profit company, said it would be unusual for the court to issue the temporary injunction that Musk is seeking. The judge ...
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Elon Musk appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday to defend the cuts being made by DOGE. Read more ›
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Apple is in the process of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and changes are already being made to the Apple Maps app. When searching in the Maps app for Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico name is shown or the name is blank, but tapping into the area shows the "Gulf of America" wording. According to Bloomberg, Apple is rolling out the Maps change... Read more ›
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DeepSeek matches ChatGPT at just 10% of typical development costs. Dramatic shift in AI development could democratise the technology but raises security concerns A dramatic shift in open-source AI development is emerging from China, where startup DeepSeek fundamentally challenges how artificial intelligence evolves. By making its technology freely available for anyone to download, modify, and... Read more » Read more ›
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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, focused on cutting government waste and spending, has more than doubled its own spending. Read more ›
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Disney told employees in a memo it was shifting DEI efforts to prioritize business goals and company values. Read more ›
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Apple is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Maps app. The company started rolling out the name change for US users this afternoon, and Bloomberg reports that it will soon display the name for users globally, too. Google Maps started showing the “Gulf of America” for users in the […] Read more ›
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE’s data access is illegal and should be cut off. Read more ›
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The shopping center from George A. Romero's 1978 anti-consumerism zombie tale is now owned by the big-box behemoth. Read more ›
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U.S. District Judge John Bates granted a temporary restraining order restoring the lost webpages, which included information on HIV. Read more ›
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Google says it began removing observances from its calendar in mid-2024. The removals recently sparked online discourse amid other Google changes. Read more ›
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Google users noticed cultural holidays have been disappearing from their calendars, as the company moves to recognize only public holidays. Read more ›
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A leading cybersecurity firm has filed a lawsuit alleging Elon Musk and DOGE of breaching the security of Americans. Read more ›
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On Tuesday, Shopify shut down the Yeezy store run by Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) after it listed shirts with swastikas for sale. Ye advertised the site in a commercial shown during the Super Bowl on Sunday. It previously sold things like sneakers and t-shirts, but on Monday, the only item for sale was […] Read more ›
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If you have two Apple Accounts with multiple digital purchases between them, Apple now has a way for you to consolidate the accounts by migrating content from one account to another. As noted by Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels, Apple today published a support document that provides instructions for moving purchases from a secondary Apple Account to a primary Apple Account. Apps, music, books, TV shows, and movies that have... Read more ›
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133 million people saw Kendrick Lamar sing about Drake. Plus: Watch the other Super Bowl performances, including the national anthem. Read more ›
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Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has asked his agency to investigate Comcast’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, reports Newsmax. “We have received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will be cooperating with the FCC to answer their questions,” Comcast spokesperson Joelle Terry confirms to The Verge. According to Newsmax, Carr said that […] Read more ›
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The Ninja Swirl by Creami can make both hard and soft serve ice cream, plus any number of other frozen treats. Read more ›
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While the chatbot still seems to lean left on many issues, its bias is changing. Read more ›
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The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders. Read more ›
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Lina Khan is out of the government, but she hasn’t given up her crusade against big tech. The former Federal Trade Commission chair has written an opinion piece for The New York Times suggesting the success of China’s artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a sign that “there isn’t enough competition” in the tech industry. Perhaps Lina Khan is living on a different planet. In the U.S., aside from ChatGPT parent... Read more ›
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How painful would it be for ByteDance to shut down TikTok in the U.S. altogether? Such a question may be moot if you only listened to President Donald Trump, who has frequently weighed in on the likelihood of a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations—perhaps to Oracle, maybe to Elon Musk, or even to the U.S. government itself! But as we’ve reported here and as the Washington Post reminded us... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase’s $917 million investment in a Greek fintech company has gone so wrong that the bank last year offered to sell back half of its stake at a valuation of $175 million. The fintech, Viva Wallet, didn’t take the offer. JPMorgan responded with a lawsuit that accused Viva’s founder of bullying and threatening its representatives. It demanded its full investment back, plus interest. Whoever wins this fight, the deal... Read more ›
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Hugging Face, a repository for open-source artificial intelligence, has laid off about 10 people from its sales team, according to a person with direct knowledge of the cuts. That’s around 4% of the 250-person company. The cuts impacted Hugging Face’s consulting business, “Expert Support ... Read more ›
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Amazon’s sales grew 10% year-over-year to $187.8 billion in the fourth quarter, the company said Thursday. Operating income, meanwhile, grew 61% to $21.2 billion, in part as the company kept a lid on logistics costs. Most of Amazon’s business lines reported steady or slightly slowing growth ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The Thiel protégé set to dispense a dose of abrupt change to the U.S. Health Department• The Top 5: The best high-tech protective gear for skiers and snowboarders• Plus, our Recommendations: A tricky traitor in the Troubles; a deeply researched television set; and Michael Fassbender goes James Bond–ish Oh, bonjour, Monsieur le Vice-Président! Next week, JD Vance will bid adieu to the... Read more ›
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Google doesn’t get the accolades OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek are getting in advancing artificial intelligence, but it’s arguably doing some things right.Case in point: On Wednesday, Google made a trio of new Gemini AI models generally available to app developers, including a reasoning model akin to OpenAI’s o1 and the much-discussed DeepSeek R1. The models themselves are nearly as good as those of Google’s rivals, according to the Chatbot Arena... Read more ›
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The falling cost of artificial intelligence—underscored by the arrival of DeepSeek—is likely to pressure software firms to stop charging customers for ChatGPT-like features such as summarizing documents and automatically drafting emails, which are fast becoming a commodity, executives from security firm Palo Alto Networks and file storage firm Box told me. The executives didn’t name names, but they’re likely referring to companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce that have been... Read more ›
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China’s anti-monopoly regulator is weighing a probe into Apple over its App Store policies, Bloomberg reported. Officials from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation have spoken to Apple executives and app developers since last year, which was before President Donald Trump took ... Read more ›
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Investors in artificial intelligence startups have been wowed by the growth of many young AI startups, which are hitting revenue milestones years earlier than a previous generation of software companies did. But they are worried many of those startups won’t be able to hang on to this phenomenal growth—and are hunting for clues on which ones will survive. To do so, they’re zeroing in on a favored metric of enterprise... Read more ›
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