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Meta Platforms is overhauling how it protects user privacy when developing products so the company can release products more quickly, The Information reported. As part of the changes, Meta’s privacy teams will have less authority to delay product launches. Instead, product teams will make the ...
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Elon Musk is leading a group of investors making a $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI. Sam Altman dismissed it and was criticized by Musk. Read more ›
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Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in place of the “Gulf of Mexico” for users on both web and mobile in the United States. It made the change after the Trump administration formally changed the name today of the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and the Florida panhandle. […] Read more ›
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Valve has implemented new rules around advertising, explicitly prohibiting games that force players to watch in-game ads. Read more Read more ›
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In a dramatic escalation of Silicon Valley’s most heated AI rivalry, Elon Musk just announced that he’s leading a $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, according to The Wall Street Journal. The bid was reportedly delivered to the board Monday morning. The offer brings together a powerful coalition of backers, including Musk’s own […] Read more ›
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The administration must immediately restore federal funding, wrote a federal judge in Rhode Island who is overseeing a lawsuit brought by 22 states. Read more ›
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A system warning confirms that magnets can disrupt S Pen performance on the new Samsung flagship. Read more ›
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The billionaire oligarch says he wants OpenAI to become a "safety-focused force for good." Read more ›
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Elon Musk has launched a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI. The Wall Street Journal reports a group of investors led by Musk's xAI submitted an unsolicited offer to the company's board of directors on Monday. The group wants to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI's for-profit arm. When asked for comment, an OpenAI spokesperson pointed Engadget to an X post from CEO Sam Altman. "No thank you... Read more ›
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Trump slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum in his first term, but with exemptions. Now, he's escalating and implementing 25% tariffs on all partners. Read more ›
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For most of Super Bowl LIX, Taylor Swift was seen wearing a white tank top and denim shorts. Her expensive outfit, however, also included diamonds. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is turning down Elon Musk's offer to acquire OpenAI for $97 billion. Read more ›
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Rurouni Kenshin is anime's exhibit A of separating the art from the artist. Read more ›
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The Starlink Satellite access that iPhone users see on iOS 18.3 is because of a new deal with T-Mobile. Read more ›
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Meta job cuts shock employees as even those with strong performance records face layoffs. Read more ›
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Terry Crews and his wife have been married for 36 years. However, they nearly split for good over a decade ago due to his infidelity and porn addiction. Read more ›
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Instead of a classic greatest hits medley, Kendrick Lamar opted to perform songs from his latest album and two Drake diss tracks at the Super Bowl. Read more ›
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Bid complicates CEO Sam Altman’s plans to turn artificial intelligence group into for-profit company 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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The tech industry’s project to build out artificial intelligence is proving even more capital intensive than the peak of the last investment supercycle by oil and gas firms in the mid-2010s. Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon and Alphabet spent an estimated average of 17.2% of their revenues on capital expenditures in 2024, up from 12.7% in 2021, with the figure expected to rise further in 2025. 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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Republican Senator Bill Hagerty on Tuesday introduced a bill to create a regulatory framework on stablecoins, representing the first push in Congress to pass a crypto legislation under the new Trump administration. Stablecoins—crypto tokens pegged to dollars and backed by U.S. treasuries and ... 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 DeepSeek reasoning artificial intelligence, R1, isn’t just a gift to businesses eager to cut their AI costs. American cloud providers looking to boost their server rental businesses moved quickly last week to make R1 available to their customers.So far, however, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google aren’t charging cloud customers to use DeepSeek, which is open source, the same way they charge for other models—based on how much text... Read more ›
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